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Flexible cleaning process
28 January 2016
The official launch of BOC's Cryoclean snow+ industrial cleaning process has taken place at its Manufacturing Technology Centre in Wolverhampton.

Cryoclean snow+ combines dry ice blasting (using CO2 dry ice crystals) with sand blasting to provide a flexible industrial cleaning method for a wide range of industry sectors including automotive, aerospace, additive manufacturing, construction, food, metal and machine construction, pharmaceuticals, plastic manufacturing and steel.
This new process can be used to clean industrial products such as machinery, process equipment and conveyor belts. Cryoclean snow+ is also useful in the new, fast-growing additive manufacturing sector, where it can be used to remove oxides from the surfaces of a number of materials, including steels and aluminium, and to clean polymers.
By changing the ratio of CO2 and abrasive material, the operator can adjust the intensity of the cleaning process to match the condition of the surface. This is particularly useful where cleaning challenges vary within a process flow, with relatively clean areas followed by heavily soiled, chemically altered or even corroded zones.