Dry Ice Blasting

For food processors, dry ice blasting has been documented by the Food Standards Agency to effectively decontaminate surfaces of Salmonella, E. coli and Listeria. Cleaning with dry ice has many benefits, reducing cleaning time as well as production downtime. Food grade dry ice is approved by the FDA, and is environmentally responsible, producing no secondary waste.

Dry ice blasting has a variety of applications for food processing. These include but are not limited to: slicers and dividers, electrical components, radial feeders, pack-off tables, ovens, conveyors, mixers, baggers, and palletizers.

Food processing and packaging equipment gets dirty with grease, wax, proteins, seasonings, crumbs, glue and other buildup. This prevents the equipment from operating at peak efficiency. Unfortunately, traditional manual cleaning methods are time-consuming, ineffective and usually involve significant amounts of water and resulting waste. Dry ice blasting offers a superior cleaning process that can reduce cleaning time by up to 80 percent, eliminate secondary waste and result in a significant reduction in overall cleaning costs.

Our certified staff of trained technicians will use dry ice blasting technology to remove years of chemical and contaminant residue. We can restore your equipment to like new condition, all while creating no secondary waste or water to clean up and dispose of.

Cleaning industrial equipment with dry ice blasting has a number of benefits: reduced cleaning time, no secondary waste and environmental responsibility.

There is a broad scope of efficient uses for dry ice blasting when it comes to industrial equipment. These include but are not limited to: tank cleaning, coating removal, process residue removal, equipment cleaning, degreasing, decontamination, corrosion removal, turbine cleaning, HRSG cleaning, chiller cleaning, elevated walkway degreasing and cleaning, baked-on carbonized buildup removal, oven cleaning, conveyor cleaning, and graffiti removal.

Dry ice blasting prides a non-conductive, environmentally responsible cleaning process that allows equipment to be cleaned in-place, without cool down disassembly. Cleaning with dry ice has a variety of useful benefits: Reducing catastrophic failure, Improving mega-Ohm readings, Increasing polarization indicator, Improving thermal dissipation and Reducing outage time.

Power Generation professionals know one key to peak performance is clean electrical equipment. However, the demand to keep the equipment running often leads to deferred cleaning and maintenance, reduced efficiency, and in some cases, outages caused by flashover. Dry ice blasting prides a non-conductive, environmentally-responsible cleaning process that allows equipment to be cleaned in place and without cool down disassembly. In addition, the outage time typically needed for cleaning can be reduced up to 65 percent.

Dry ice blasting can be used to clean the following types of facilities: Turbines, Compressors & Generators, AC/DC Motors, Circuit Breakers, Switch Gears, Transformers, Rotors, Stators and Insulators.

Dry ice blasting can optimize equipment performance and increase productivity in the printing industry. Cleaning with dry ice has a significant impact on machinery performance. It can dramatically shorten cleaning times, reduce scrap rates and restore print quality. Equipment never performs better than after a thorough clean.

ASM Environmental offers dry ice blasting services that provide efficient cleaning for
: grippers and rollers, drums and ink trays, gears and deck guides, side walls, feeder/delivery units, letterpress and flexography gravure presses.

In many printing facilities, the cleaning of the side frames and print deck mechanism is usually avoided until absolutely necessary. This causes unavoidable ink buildup on the gears and deck guides, and causes poor alignment which results in low print quality and high scrap rates. Dry ice blasting can reduce or eliminate this concern.

Not only does dry ice blasting speed up the cleaning process, but it cleans better, too. In a typical cleaning process, manual scraping requires 20-30 man-hours per piece of equipment. Using ASM Environmental’s dry ice blasting process, the same piece of equipment can be cleaned in less than two hours. With this type of speed and efficiency, there is no longer any need to wait for the next shutdown to clean.