Dry Ice Blasting Food Conveyor Chains
Twice a year, Optimum Dry Ice Blasting are tasked with cleaning conveyor chains for a well known food production company.
The word chains does not accurately describe the process part however. I would describe it, more accurately, as miles of heavy lumps of steel wheels, with heavy attached interconnects! So heavy in fact that each section has to be broken down into 1.5 ton segments in order to safely dismantle it. All 3 miles of it!
We then have the logistical nightmare of hoisting each segment from its pallet and hanging it vertically whilst we blast clean, and then re-coiling it ready for re shipping.
No easy feat by any stretch of the imagination. The main reason this work is undertaken at our Birmingham facility is the contamination on the conveyor chain is impossible to control at the clients factory.
The risk of cross contamination at the client's site is too high, so we were tasked with coming up with a solution. We've invested heavily on a bespoke, sound proofed blast facility, designed specifically to undertake this kind of work. With the amount of mess we create, it's easy to see why it has to be cleaned off site!
*Taken from our blog page, which can be read here https://www.optimumdryiceblasting.co.uk/blog/ *
