Dry ice blasting is similar to sand blasting, plastic bead blasting, or soda blasting where a medium is accelerated in a pressurized air stream to impact a surface to be cleaned or prepared. Instead of using hard abrasive media to grind on a surface (and damage it), dry ice blasting uses soft dry ice, accelerated at supersonic speeds, creating mini-explosions on the surface to lift the undesirable item off the underlying substrate.
Dry ice blasting has many unique and superior benefits over traditional blasting media. It is a non-abrasive, nonflammable and nonconductive cleaning method and is environmentally-friendly and contains no secondary contaminants such as solvents or grit media.
Top 10 Reasons Dry Ice Blasting is superior:
Superior clean
Machines can be cleaned in place
Quicker clean
Non-abrasive, nonflammable and nonconductive
No secondary waste clean up
Can get into tight spaces that many other methods can not
Environmentally friendly
Operator safety
Operator efficiency
Clean enough for the food industry, strong enough(1) for everything else