How a Red-D-Arc dry ice blaster helped a major coating company

The ColdJet Aero 40FP blaster by Red-D-Arc

Red-D-Arc Welderentals offers dry-ice blasting equipment for sale or rental, to keep businesses efficient and competitive. One of the company’s most recent success stories involved a major powder pigment coating facility in Houston, which needed a better, safer, and faster cleaning process for mixing equipment. With an innovative dry ice blaster from Red-D-Arc, this customer now saves a lot more time and money than before, while keeping workers safe.

Hours of work saved

The powder company has been in the coating industry for more than 150 years; today, it maintains one of the sector’s widest portfolios of powder technologies and supplies coating systems to more than 100,000 customers in 130 countries. Whenever this company switches its product line, its staff must thoroughly clean all mixers, grinders, and other equipment to prevent cross-contamination of colours and materials. Previously, the company did this by blending chemical, mechanical, and manual cleaning, which necessitated shutting down each unit for an extended period. This process was slow, expensive, and dangerous to workers.

For a better cleaning solution, the company turned to Red-D-Arc.

The Red-D-Arc team recommended the ColdJet Aero 40FP dry ice blaster. After Red-D-Arc provided a demonstration of this equipment at the customer’s facility, the customer began renting the model for a trial period, which enabled assessment of costs of dry ice blasting. Impressed with the product’s effectiveness, the company decided on a long-term lease of two Aero 40FP systems.

These machines worked so well that they have since become a permanent part of the customer’s regular maintenance routine. The full pressure range, consistent pellet flow, and lower power consumption of these systems reduce maintenance time significantly – two hours saved during extruder cleaning, two to four saved when cleaning power grinders, and four to six on cleaning mixers. Benefits from using the Aero 40FP dry ice blaster include efficiency, high cost savings, flexible financing options from Red-D-Arc, diverse applications (weld-slag removal in automated cells, descaling metals before welding, cleaning metals in food processing, etc.), and an increase in plant maintenance safety.

Trust the ColdJet Aero 40FP for similar results.

For more information, contact Red-D-Arc.

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