Welcome to IceTech Ireland - Dry Ice Blasting Equipment

IceTech Ireland is a branch of Polar Ice that specialises in Dry Ice Blasting - a revolutionary alternative to traditional methods of cleaning industrial production equipment. Our goal is to meet industrial cleaning requirements in an easy, fast, gentle and environmentally correct manner.

Dry ice blasting is a revolutionary blasting method that uses small, compact, dry ice pellets as the blasting material. The dry ice pellets are accelerated in a jet of compressed air similar to that used in traditional blasting methods.

Dry ice blasting is designed to replace high-pressure hosing and other traditional blasting methods that use materials such as sand, glass and plastic as abrasive agents. Many of these cleaning materials are hazardous, rendering them unsafe for use on machinery that processes food or certain types of chemicals.

Dry ice blasting is ideal for removing coatings such as adhesives, varnish, oil, grease, coal dust, soot, mould release agents and bitumen.

Dry ice blasting is well suited to a wide range of industries; from food and pharmaceuticals, to printing and gluing. Our diverse customer portfolio includes companies such as Carlsberg, Novo Nordisk, Mærsk, Vestas and West Pharmaceutical Services.

There are a number of advantages to utilising dry ice blasting:

Dry ice Blasting is clean
Dry Ice is unique as a blasting material in that it vaporises on contact with the surface to be cleaned. Treated surfaces are therefore left dry and clean, without residues of detergents or blasting materials. Only the coating that has been removed remains to be disposed of, and this can usually be swept or vacumed from the floor beneath the treated object. This makes the system highly suitable for industries that require a high degree of hygiene - the food and pharmaceutical industries for example.

Dry Ice Blasting is non-conductive and non-abrasive
Due to the unique properties of dry ice, it can be used as a blasting agent where other processes would be unsuitable.
As the process is completely dry and non-conductive, dry ice blasting can be used to clean electric motors and equipment with electric, pneumatic or hydraulic components can be cleaned directly using dry ice blasting. Also, since dry ice vaporises on contact, it can be used to clean easily-damaged surfaces like nickel, chromium and soft aluminium.

Dry Ice Blasting reduces maintenance downtime
Dry ice blasting will often allow a company's production equipment to be cleaned while in operation without the need for dismantling and costly downtime.