Use of dry ice pellets has become increasingly popular in recent times as a safe and effective way to clean production equipment – non-toxic, non- hazardous, non-explosive, no chemicals or solvents, no abrasion to metal and most other materials. On impact the dry ice pellets sublimate to a harmless gaseous state to atmosphere, leaving the surface clean, dry and undamaged. The debris left is simply the material removed which can swept or vacuumed up to complete the work.

Companies operating machinery in industries such as food processing, printing, engineering, plastics, rubber, etc find that there is no need for complex dismantling (and re-assembly) of machinery with masking off only required occasionally for certain equipment. Labour and down time is reduced as is the mess associated with some other cleaning methods.

Dry ice (pure solid carbon dioxide) is unstable above -78.6°C at atmospheric pressure but instead of melting into CO2 liquid when it warms up, it turns directly into gas. It is this sublimation that creates the cleaning effect when the dry ice is used as a blast medium. Olivo portable insulated containers are used by many leading names around the world. The combination of the high quality insulation and robust plastic construction with steel fittings ensures that the containers have a very long life. The ease of movement on casters or feet makes them easy to handle by hand or with lift trucks, thus the dry ice pellet for blast cleaning can be taken direct to the point of use and remain at exactly the right temperature to produce the cleaning results required.