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Airlines / Aerospace
Reduce cleaning costs up to 80%.
Benefits are:
- Maintains equipment without electrical issues
- Primes surfaces for repainting
- Safely and effectively cleans wiring and hosing
- Swiftly cleans landing gear, engine bay covers and other components
- Removes brake dust and other residues
Also reduces or eliminates the following contaminants from aviation equipment:
- Spray-on foam insulation
- Sealants and coatings
- Carbons
- Grease
- Oil
Dry ice blasting technology has been approved for use on many critical flight parts.
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Automotive
Reduce cleaning time up to 70%.
Benefits:
- Reduces time spent cleaning within the automotive shop
- Increase production time by 75 to 90 percent
- Eliminates need for intensive cleaning when unscheduled maintenance occurs
Specialized nozzle systems meet all the cleaning needs in an automotive shop or plant.
- Weld lines
- Slush molds
- E-coat
Rubber and plastic molders
- Engine remanufacturers
- Electronics
- Urethanes and plastic molding
- General maintenance
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Disaster Recovery
Benefits:
- Reduction of downtime and costs
- Faster cleaning; less furniture moving
- Elimination of black mold, soot and smoke damage from most surfaces
- Approved by many insurance companies as useful post disaster cleanup
Post disaster cleanup is always an issue; dry ice blasting can help recover the following damages:
- Black mold
- Smoke damage
- Soot damage
- Water damage
- Flood damage
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Electrical
Benefits:
- Moistureless cleaning
- Successful in completely cleaning electric motor windings in place
- Drying process not required
- No disposal issues
- Potential damage to any components is eliminated
Dry Ice blasting can be used on various parts of electric motors and equipment including:
- Housings
- Stators
- Wiring
- Windings
- Circuit Breakers and Boards
- Electric Production Equipment
- Electric Control Cabinets
- Circuit Breakers and Boards
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Fire Restoration
Reduce cleaning time up to 80%.
Benefits:
- Fast and efficient removal of smoke damage
- Cleans tight angles of trusses, around nails, wiring and plumbing
- Does not damage surface integrity
- Reduced encapsulation time
Dry ice blasting has become the preferred method to remove the following contaminants following a fire:
- Smoke
- Charcoal
- Soot
- Vaporized synthetic resins
- Reduces or eliminates musty burnt scents
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Food Processing
Reduce cleaning time up to 80%.
Benefits:
- CO2 grade will not contaminate food or equipment
- Approved to be used by FDA, EPA and USDA
- Oven-cleaning costs can be significantly reduced
- Cleans production ovens without disassembly
- Cleaning can take place while ovens are still on
- Effective on both hot, cold, plastic and metal surfaces
Dry ice blasting can be used to clean production equipment or factories:
- Mixing equipment
- Uncooked residues
- Packaging equipment
- Conveyors
- Dryers
- Freezers
- Glue head residues
- Baked on oven residues
- Mixing equipment
- Ventilation equipment
- Electric motors
- Floors, ceilings and walls
- Transportation vehicles and equipment
- Food storage rooms and equipment
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General Maintenance
Reduce cleaning time up to 80%.
Benefits:
- Greatly decreases cleaning, setup and start-up times
- Minimizes risks of damage to expensive equipment
- Notably reduces hourly labour costs for cleaning
- Increases production time for production equipment
- Reduces downtime by eliminating need for teardown and movement in many cases
Dry ice blasting has endless uses in the general maintenance industry removing the following contaminates:
- Oil
- Gum
- Grease
- Metallic weld slag
- Insoluble overspray
- Adhesives
- Petroleum
- Tar
General maintenance is a very broad field in dry ice blast cleaning. If your equipment or contaminant is not listed on our site, please inquire for further information.
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Hazardous Waste
Benefits:
- Cleaning media sublimates keeping the hazardous waste volume from increasing
- Related disposal cost does not go up
- Eliminates secondary nuclear contamination of cleaning materials
- Hazardous waste volume is reduced greatly and can be cleaned easily
- Amazing cost efficiency of cleaning with dry ice for hazardous waste
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Historical Restoration
Reduce cleaning time up to 80%.
Benefits:
- Reveals intricate details of historic structures
- Safely cleans delicate surfaces and structures
- No use of chemicals which can add waste and damage exteriors
- Removes lead based paint, smoke damage and adhesives
- Unrivalled in the reversal of aging effects
Effectively restores priceless private and public monuments, objets d'art, artefacts, heirlooms whether kept indoors or outdoors
- Grave Markers
- Ceramic Mosaics
- Murals
- Stones
- Cast Iron
- Marble statues and fountains
- Copper and bronze metals
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Marine and Boating
Benefits:
- Sanitizes underwater surfaces reducing the likelihood of marine growth reattaching (sea slime, algae, mussels ect)
- 100% ecologically safe, biodegradable and harmless to marine life
- Cleans without damaging gel coating on hulls
- Safely removes anti-foul coatings
- Marine systems will perform longer with maintained cleaning
Dry ice blasting can clean marine vessels safely in or out of the water!
- Aluminum & fibreglass ship hulls
- Water intake valves
- Electrical panels
- Exhaust systems
- Engines
- Tanks
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Mass Transit
Benefits:
- No excess waste or water run-off
- 100% ecologically safe, biodegradable and harmless to human life
- Minimizes risks of damage to public transit areas and equipment
- Notably reduces hourly labour costs for cleaning
- Greatly decreases cleaning time and intrusions into public comfort
In the mass transit industry dry ice cleaning systems clean a variety of surfaces, machinery and vandalism some examples are:
- Electric motors
- Skytrains
- Escalators
- Elevators
- Rail cars
- Buses
- Stations
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Medical Equipment & Pharmaceuticals
Benefits:
- Eliminates growths of bacteria and micro organisms
- 100% ecologically safe, biodegradable and harmless to humans
- Minimizes safety hazards from cleaning around electrical equipment
- Decreases short circuits & other power surges caused by traditional cleaning methods
Some of the many examples of pharmaceutical cleaning uses would be:
- Stainless steel containers
- Plastics
- Reactors
- Glass jars
- Mixers
- Separators
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Mold Remediation
Reduce cleaning time up to 80%.
Benefits:
- Removes 100% of mold spores from wood
- Blasting method is 80% faster than traditional cleaning methods
- Provides complete mold removal even in tight angles of trusses, around nails, wiring & plumbing
- Significant lack of sanding and scraping involved in the preparation
- Absolutely no secondary waste stream to clean or remove
The only way to ensure 100% mold spore removal from wood is through dry ice blasting. Dry ice blasting will remove the following contaminants without creating any additional waste:
- Black mold
- mold colonies
- mold spores
- Fungal hyphae (mold roots radiating into the wood)
- Layer decomposed wood
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Oil Field Equipment
Benefits:
- Reduces media such as sand from entering process equipment
- Minimizes important equipment downtime
- Eliminates the need for covering and tarping other equipment
- Cleaning process can be done hot, whist equipment is online
- Effectively cleans piping, wellheads, valves, vessel interiors and much more
Cleans oil field equipment thoroughly and safely of the following dangerous contaminants:
- Acids
- Chemicals
- Heavy oils
- Bitumen
- Corrosion
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Plastics
Reduce cleaning time up to 80%.
Benefits:
- Cleaning can take place whist mold is still at curing temperature
- Thoroughly cleans plastic molds without damage
- Reduces need to disassemble equipment (molds from press)
- Increases production time by reducing or eliminating downtime
- Removes paraffin build-up that can cause blemishes
Examples of some of the plastic manufacturing equipment successfully cleaned with blasting:
- Blow and injection mold cavities
- Glue heads and gluers
- Packaging equipment
- Extruder screws
- Ovens
- Mixers
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Power Generation & Utilities
Benefits:
- Power interruptions to clientele eliminated or reduced
- Cleaned and Improved system reliability
- Switching not required improving overall safety
- Reduced necessity for containment reclamation of grit or solvent
- Cleaning can be done anytime of the year
Proactive maintenance helps avoid failures in electrical equipment. Dry ice blasting will successfully maintain the following power generation equipment:
- Switch Gear
- Turbines
- Windings
- Transformers
- Substations
- Line insulators
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Printing and Packaging
Reduce cleaning time up to 80%.
Benefits:
- Eliminates manual scraping and reduces cleaning time from one day to less than two hours
- Reduces or eliminates low quality printing and scrap rates.
- Thoroughly cleans wax and clay build up from rollers, gears, guides, and chains
- Decreases equipment downtime by cleaning without disassembly
- Increases lifetime for parts such as fans, motors, chains and gripper bars.
All printing machinery equipment as well as dryers and drums can be quickly cleaned of the following contaminants:
- Ink build-up
- Coatings
- Paper dust
- Spray powders
- Grease & Oil
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Rubber
Reduce cleaning time up to 75%.
Benefits:
- Eliminates the need to remove and reinstall molds during cleaning
- Greatly decreases equipment downtime
- Defect levels minimized to near zero
- Reduction in tool damage and loss
- Reduction in requirement to re-stamp faulty tire lettering
Tire and rubber contaminants cause flaws in the final product. Dry ice blasting removes these contaminants:
- Fouling residues
- Release agents
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Wine and Beverage Processing
Benefits:
- Dry ice blasting uses no chemicals
- No excess waste or water run-off
- Sanitizes and opens the grain for flavouring
- Approved to be used by FDA, EPA and USDA
- Eliminates need to re-toast barrels
- Colorless, tasteless, odourless gas leaves no residue which could result in substandard tastes
- Creates sanitized surface with no imperfections susceptible to bacteria
Wine and beverage processing can be cleaned of crystals, salts, and build-up ect:
- Presses
- Press plates
- Augers
- Barrels
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Wood
Reduce cleaning time up to 85%.
Benefits:
- Eliminate manual press, dryer and vent cleaning
- Increase safety and health of all employees
- Reduced fire hazards
- Cleans otherwise unreachable parts of a wood press
- Keeps workers at a safe distance from residue and residue dust
Traditional cleaning processes are dangerous and less effective. Dry ice blasting will clean this equipment safely and thoroughly:
- Wood presses
- Dryers
- Conveyors
- Stackers
- Lathes
- Vents
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