Dry-ice blasting is a dry, gentle and environmentally friendly cleaning method. The surface to be cleaned is blasted with small pellets of dry ice using compressed air. When the dry-ice hits the surface, it creates a thermal shock between the pellets and the surface. By definition this means that the "dirt" is broken down into small particles, and these particles are easy to clean up by using a vacuum cleaner or just a brush.

 

Typical contaminants: oils, greases, paint, oxide layer, glue, varnish, soot, sugar, plastic and rubber etc. can easily be "blasted" away. Wherever you use water or chemicals for cleaning, you can use dry ice blasting.

 

Advantages of dry-ice blasting

• Can be used during “production, (saves time)

• Does not affect the surface mechanical

• Does not effect the environment negatively, as is the case with most solvents

• Sensitive components don not need to be masked or removed • No additional clean-up for waste, resulting in lower disposal costs

• 100% Dry, can be used on sensitive areas such as electronics • Is approved for cleaning in the food industry

 

What is dry ice?

Dry ice is produced by carbon dioxide normally collected from factories exhaust towers. This means that cleaning by using dry ice does not introduce any extra carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is frozen into small cylindrical pellets with a diameter of 1-3 mm and a temperature of -78 Celsius. When the dry-ice hits the surface to be cleaned, the pellets transforms to gas in a fraction of a millisecond, without going through the water / steam phase as ordinary ice. This makes the method completely dry, and environmentally friendly.