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Non-abrasive CO₂ cleaning for Ohio's manufacturing, food processing, aerospace, and healthcare facilities — operating from Cleveland with service centers in Columbus and Dayton. Founded 1960. NADCA-certified. 19 consecutive NADCA Safety Awards. $2,000 minimum engagement.
Dry ice blasting is a non-abrasive, non-conductive industrial cleaning process that propels solid CO₂ pellets at −109 °F through a compressed-air nozzle at supersonic velocity. On contact, the pellets sublimate — shifting instantly from solid to gas with an 800× volume expansion — and lift contaminants off the substrate without moisture, abrasive residue, or secondary waste.
Dry ice blasting sits in the "media blasting" family alongside sandblasting and walnut-shell blasting, but differs in one decisive way: the blast medium disappears on impact. The only material left to clean up is the original contaminant. That single property is why dry ice blasting has displaced chemical stripping, abrasive blasting, and hand-scraping across food plants, automotive paint booths, plastics extruders, and electronics manufacturing lines throughout Cleveland, Columbus, and Dayton.
Service-Tech operates Cold Jet–class blasters paired with a dedicated pelletizer and supports each crew with a compressed-air source sized to the job — typically 180+ CFM at 80 psi for production-scale work. Nozzle systems (round, fan, straight) are matched to the substrate and contamination type.
Dry ice blasting solves five industrial cleaning problems that chemical methods, abrasives, and traditional disassembly-and-rinse protocols cannot:
Paint overspray in automotive booths, mold-release on plastics tooling, baked-on residue on ovens and conveyors, adhesive on packaging equipment. Dry ice lifts it without touching the substrate.
Disassembly, cool-down, rinse, reassembly, drying. Dry ice blasting is performed in place on warm equipment — cutting cleaning downtime by 40–70%.
Sandblasting pits electronics, destroys wiring insulation, abrades precision surfaces. Dry ice is the only media blasting approach safe for live electrical components.
No disposal cost, no EPA manifest, no worker exposure from abrasive or chemical media. Dry ice leaves only the original contaminant to collect.
CO₂ is FDA-approved as a direct-contact food processing aid — the default cleaning medium for USDA-regulated food lines, pharma equipment, and electronics.
Service-Tech deploys dry ice blasting across the full Ohio manufacturing and institutional base. Representative applications by vertical:
Paint booths, robot cells, weld cells, conveyors at Ford Ohio Assembly, Honda supplier network, Fuyao Glass America.
Extruders, injection molds, hot runners, and tooling across the Akron polymer corridor and Cleveland-metro plastics base.
Baking equipment, conveyors, packaging machinery at Nestlé, Pierre's, Pepperidge Farms — food-grade CO₂ safe for direct contact.
Adhesive and ink-residue-heavy equipment across corrugated, flexible, and rigid packaging lines.
Wright-Patterson AFB supplier base, composite tooling, electronics-sensitive assembly under DFARS/ITAR where required.
Cleveland Clinic, hospital campuses, pharma manufacturers — moisture-free cleaning where residue is unacceptable.
Service-Tech has run industrial cleaning operations since 1960, and our dry ice blasting crews follow the same seven-step protocol at every Cleveland, Columbus, and Dayton job.
Substrate, contamination profile, access, and safety conditions assessed — including lockout/tagout, confined-space evaluation, and PPE. Findings documented before crew mobilization.
Blaster, pelletizer, CO₂ supply, and compressed-air source sized to the work staged at the production line. Crews confirm power, air, and CO₂ logistics before the first blast.
Negative air with HEPA capture manages sublimated CO₂ and dislodged contaminants. Adjacent production zones keep running with zero cross-contamination.
Representative surface tested to confirm pellet size, pressure, nozzle, and approach angle before full production. Protects expensive substrates from any risk of damage.
Systematic pattern with dwell control to avoid substrate damage. Crews move upstream-to-downstream on production lines. Continuous progress photos documented.
Substrate condition verified. Equipment confirmed dry, moisture-free, ready to run on the next shift. Any touch-up blast performed before demob.
Contaminant waste captured (media-free), before/after photos documented, cleaning record handed to facility maintenance. Records are audit-ready for food, pharma, and regulated-manufacturing clients.
Dry ice blasting is most effective when timed to a production event rather than a calendar date. Plants across Ohio typically schedule work in one of five windows:
Plastics color changes, automotive paint color rotation, food-line product changeovers. Dry ice is done in place on warm equipment — the line is ready for the next run immediately after.
Annual or semi-annual shutdowns in steel, chemical, and automotive operations. A shutdown window is the ideal time to clean dust collectors, paint booths, robot cells, and extruders thoroughly.
When a line's output drops, defect rate rises, or cycle time lengthens, contamination is often the cause. A dry ice cleaning event can restore baseline performance faster than chemical strip-down.
Quarterly or shutdown-based cleaning of dust collectors, paint booths, robot cells, extruders. Locked-in pricing, predictable downtime.
Most projects are priced by scope after a short site walk. Here's the framework Service-Tech uses when scoping a job.
Cost drivers: contamination depth (single-pass vs multi-pass), substrate sensitivity, access (ground-level vs confined-space or elevated), shift timing (weekend / off-shift premium), and CO₂ supply distance from our Cleveland, Columbus, or Dayton operating center. Call 800.992.9302 and a Service-Tech estimator will walk your site, review mechanical drawings, and return a fixed-price proposal.
Deferred equipment cleaning in Ohio manufacturing environments routinely costs more than the cleaning itself.
Rejected parts, customer complaints, warranty exposure. A single contaminated paint booth run can produce hundreds of rejected units in an automotive OEM context.
When cleaning becomes reactive instead of scheduled, it runs at full overtime rates and blocks production at a multiple of the labor cost. Preventive cleaning runs during planned windows at standard rates.
Longer downtime, documented worker chemical exposure, and a hazardous-waste manifest. Dry ice eliminates all three — and often halves the lost production time because disassembly isn't required.
Sandblasting damages substrates, creates secondary cleanup, and can cause equipment replacement. In precision plastics tooling, abrasive damage can render a $40,000+ mold scrap.
FDA, USDA, and SQF audit failures from residue carryover are one of the top five cited audit non-conformances in food plants. Dry ice is residue-free and audit-documented.
Nineteen straight years of safety recognition from the National Air Duct Cleaners Association. Safety performance is the dominant vendor-qualification criterion at Ohio's major OEMs, federal procurement offices, and hospital campuses. Our dry ice blasting crews carry this record into every engagement.
Service-Tech has provided industrial cleaning services from Cleveland since 1960 — 62 technicians and estimators across Cleveland (65+ years), Columbus (45+ years), and Dayton (45+ years). Four things distinguish our dry ice blasting program.
Service-Tech's confined-space-certified crews deliver full-scope dry ice blasting inside tanks, vessels, silos, stack interiors, and other OSHA-permit-required spaces that most competitors won't enter. The capability most often asked for and most often missing from a regional competitor's capabilities sheet.
One of the few Ohio industrial cleaning firms that dispatches dry ice, sand, AND walnut shell blasting on the same crew. The right medium is matched to the substrate — dry ice for electronics and food-grade, sand for aggressive rust and coating removal, walnut shell for delicate food processing and historic equipment.
Nineteen consecutive NADCA Safety Awards — a sustained safety record unmatched by any regional competitor. The dominant vendor-qualification criterion at Ohio's major OEMs, federal customers, and hospital campuses.
Federal Supply Schedule contract holder — Contract #GS-21F-0032U — pre-qualified for federal customer work including the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, DoD facilities, and State Department properties.
Trusted by Ohio's Industrial & Institutional Leaders
Service-Tech dispatches dry ice blasting crews from three Ohio operating centers, covering the manufacturing belt from Lake Erie to the Ohio River. Call 866.261.2285 to reach the regional dispatch.
A sample of named Service-Tech project references across the three markets:
Service-Tech's dry ice blasting protocols and documentation are built around the authorities that govern industrial cleaning across the Ohio market. Safety records and documentation are available for vendor-qualification review.
National Air Duct Cleaners Association. 19 consecutive Safety Awards. NADCA-certified crews, ACR source-removal standards where adjacent duct work is in scope.
NADCA profile →All supervisors and foremen OSHA-certified. Crews follow lockout/tagout, confined-space entry, hazardous communication, respiratory protection, and PPE protocols.
osha.gov →CO₂ is FDA-approved as a direct-contact food processing aid — dry ice is the default cleaning medium for USDA-regulated food lines, dairy, beverage, and bakery production.
fda.gov →Contract #GS-21F-0032U. Pre-qualified for federal customer work at VA hospitals, DoD, and State Department properties. DFARS documentation available where required.
gsa.gov →Yes — extensively. Service-Tech has delivered dry ice blasting across Ohio since 1960, from our Cleveland headquarters (65+ years, ~100,000 jobs completed), Columbus service center (~25,000 jobs), and Dayton service center (~25,000 jobs). Representative projects include the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, the DuPont K-3 Oven Cleaning in Columbus, and Thermofisher dust-collector cleaning in Dayton.
Service-Tech's dry ice blasting carries a $2,000 minimum engagement, which covers crew mobilization, equipment, CO₂ logistics, and on-site work. Most projects are priced by scope after a short site walk. Call 800.992.9302 for a fixed-price quote.
For planned work, Service-Tech's crews typically mobilize within one to two business days of confirmed scope across the Cleveland, Columbus, and Dayton markets. Larger shutdown and turnaround scopes are scheduled weeks in advance around the facility's production calendar.
Service-Tech has won 19 consecutive NADCA Safety Awards. All supervisors and foremen are OSHA-certified, and our crews follow standard protocols for lockout/tagout, confined-space entry, hazardous communication, respiratory protection, and PPE. Service-Tech maintains a Drug-free Safety Program with pre-employment and ongoing drug and alcohol testing.
Yes — this is a Service-Tech specialty. Our confined-space-certified crews deliver full-scope dry ice blasting inside tanks, vessels, silos, stack interiors, and other OSHA-permit-required spaces. Most regional competitors subcontract confined-space work or decline it; Service-Tech runs its own certified team.
Yes. Dry ice is non-conductive and leaves no moisture, making it the only media blasting approach safe for energized electrical components, control panels, and precision electronics. Service-Tech routinely cleans live robot cells, control cabinets, and PLC rooms in Ohio plants with no production shutdown required.
Call Service-Tech for a site survey and fixed-price quote on your next changeover, shutdown, or preventive-cleaning window.
