Aluminum tube refrigerators and freezers have been on the market for 66 years. As of today, aluminum tube refrigerators and freezers have been on the market for 66 years. In China, the first domestic refrigerator was developed by Beijing Snow Refrigerator Factory as early as 1956. This well-known old factory in China once had an annual production capacity of 800,000 refrigerators and became one of the earliest famous brand products in China. In 1956, the first refrigerator that used an electric motor to drive a compressor was invented by Swedish engineers Brighton and Mendes in 1923. Later, an American company bought their patent and produced the first batch of household refrigerators in 1925.