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Dry Ice Blasting: How to Clean Your Food Processing Equipment

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Large machinery can be difficult to clean thoroughly. When you are working in the food processing industry, which has many branches such as bakeries, restaurants, canning companies and agricultural shipping and

dry ice blasting rather then solvent based materials that leave chemical residue. Whether your food focused company has an industrial oven, a power mixer, a vacuum packer, meat slicer or a fish scaler to clean, using a dry ice blaster will ensure that dangerous substances such as salmonella and E. coli are completely washed away.

Functioning in a very similar fashion to sandblasting equipment, dry ice blasters basically substitute dry ice for the other media options utilized by blasters that etch, cut or reshape objects. Unlike other cleaning sandblasters, such as wet blasters, dry ice blasting leaves nothing behind once the process is complete. Accelerated in a pressurized air stream, the dry ice efficiently cleans the object at impact because the pellets explode when they hit it and are able to get under the surface of the dirt, break it up and remove it as the dry ice turns to gas. Because the pellets morph into gas on impact there is a very small chance that the surface will be at all scratched or worn down.

Other benefits that come from using a dry ice blaster include saving time in the cleaning process since a large machine does not need to be pulled apart to be cleaned; this also translates into fewer additional labor costs. The lack of clean up necessary after a dry ice blasting also saves the time and money of a company. Although the food processing industry benefits exponentially from the purchase of a dry ice blaster, other industries in manufacturing may also reap its rewards.