Dry ice blasting in Minnesota is an industrial cleaning service offered by Glacier Blast Inc. We are willing to bring our service to you anywhere in the United States.
Glacier Blast's growing list of satisfied customers proves that dry ice blasting has become the preferred industrial cleaning process. Dry ice blasting is safe, environmentally friendly and leaves no secondary waste stream behind.
Do you have an industrial cleaning application that requires qualified confined space entrants? Our dry ice blasting employees are OSHA qualified to work in confined space.
If you have any questions about our industrial cleaning service or the dry ice blasting process, give us a call at 320-275-5479 or use the forum on our Contact Us page.
Including our home state of Minnesota, Glacier Blast Inc. will consider no dry ice blasting job too small in any area of Wisconsin, Iowa, South Dakota and North Dakota.
Glacier Blast has compiled many dry ice blasting movies that can be watched on the YouTube player below. The movies are from our own jobs and Cold Jet, a manfacturer of dry ice blasting equipment.
Glacier Blast Inc. uses only Cold Jet dry ice blasting equipment!
Shown below are several before and after slides.
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Dry ice blasting:
- is the use of solid CO2 (carbon dioxide) pellets accelerated by compressed air to clean or strip industrial equipment, machinery, facilities etc. of unwanted contaminates. Dry ice blasting pellets impact the surface and expand instantly into a gaseous state hundreds of times greater than their original solid volume, creating miniature explosions in the cleaning process. Solid CO2 is -109 F, this thermal shock aids in removing many materials.
- is controlled by adjusting the air pressure and the volume of pellets used. In so doing heavy layers of coatings, paint, resins, mold, plastic, carbon build up, adhesives etc. are easily removed. On the delicate side a deflector plate at the end of the dry ice blasting nozzle causes the pellets to change to powder on impact, allowing the cleaning of residue from circuit boards.
- is a huge benefit in protecting industrial investments. No longer is there a need to use abrasive blast media, rotary sanding discs, abrasive pads, scrapers etc. which remove metal and cause expensive tooling repair. If the surface was originally polished, it will still be polished after the industrial cleaning job is done. Dry ice blasting removes no metal, extending equipment and tooling life.
- is not abrasive, therefore masking of glass, bearings, moving metal parts etc. is not required. The cleaning of industrial machines can now be done by dry ice blasting in place and on line, completely eliminating the need for shutting down industrial equipment for cleaning. Less downtime equals greater production time.
- is safe and environmentally friendly. CO2 is in its gaseous state in the air around us. When we inhale our bodies use the oxygen and we exhale CO2. Green plants take CO2 from the air and give off oxygen. Industrial cleaning by dry ice blasting is not harmful to the environment.
- is non-toxic, non-conductive and there is no employee exposure to hazardous chemicals or solutions. Industrial cleaning by dry ice blasting meets the guidelines of the USDA, EPA, and the FDA.
- is beneficial in reducing disposal costs. Conventional methods for industrial cleaning leave behind a secondary waste stream, such as solvents, blast media, water, rags, absorbent pads etc. often contaminated with hazardous chemicals or materials which require special handling and are subject to costly disposal fees. Dry ice blasting leaves behind no secondary waste stream.
Glacier Blast Inc. will bring their dry ice blasting as an industrial cleaning service to Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
