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ASCO talked to Mr Nicolas Paulovits of the company Novogas Limited in Nigeria. Novogas is the leading producer of food grade CO2 gas in Nigeria and West Africa. The Nigerian Gas Company works with ASCO equipment and has recently received a new ASCO Dry Ice Pelletizer P28i.

Since 2016 light metal foundry Bad Langensalza GmbH in Germany is cleaning their casting molds on a daily basis with the dry ice blasting unit ASCOJET 1701. The dry ice pellets required for blasting are produced on site by the company itself using an ASCO Dry Ice Pelletizer A120P. Thus, LGL light metal foundry in Bad Langensalza is one of the first customers to use a rental pelletizer (ASCO Carefree) in the factory.

The Swiss ASCO CARBON DIOXIDE LTD now simplifies the fast and precisely dosed filling of dry ice pellets into containers and shipping boxes. Companies that rely on the ASCO Filling System for Dry Ice Pellets are mainly from the pharmaceutical, food and logistics industries.

ASCO talked to Dipl.-Ing. Dr. mont. Stephan Hasse, the publisher and editor of the international foundry lexicon and founder of Foundry Technologies & Engineering (FT&E) GmbH. Mr Hasse has been in the foundry industry for 30 years. He advises foundries on process and technology developments and is convinced that dry ice blasting is the ideal cleaning technology in foundries.

Swiss company ASCO CARBON DIOXIDE LTD is expanding its dry ice product portfolio with the ASCO electric Active Dry Ice Saw - AAS The world's first mass-produced active dry ice saw has been specially designed for cutting dry ice slices. With a capacity of up to 600 slices per hour, it is suitable to be operated in conjunction with several dry ice production machines. Dry ice producers can thus significantly increase their production capacity.

The KSM Castings Group is an international development partner and producer of light metal castings for the automotive industry. After an intensive selection process with other blasting units, the plant in Hildesheim (Germany) decided on two ASCOJET 1701 dry ice blasting units at once. The KSM Castings Group spans the globe with production facilities in Germany, USA, China and the Czech Republic. With their products and solutions, they fulfill the core requirements of the markets: value-based service, conservation of resources and energy-efficient production.

Find out about the business of our long-time business partner, Ecoblast Supplies Ltd in UK and what action ESL took during the Covid lockdown to get back on track. Peter Woodward, ESL's Marketing Manager answers our questions.

ASCO Carbon Dioxide, Inc. and HTC Extraction Systems provided a carbon dioxide (CO2) capture system for InnoTech Alberta Inc. The system works with a flue gas slipstream from a natural gas fired power plant. The “SGR285 CO2 stack gas recovery system” marks the first ISO 14034 ETV conformant verification for a carbon capture plant in the world and recovers 6 tons of CO2 per day.

The company "Sandblasting PLUS GmbH" in Oberriet (Switzerland) has successfully renovated the sandstone vault of the Hotel Traube in Buchs. Dry ice blasting technology was used to clean the cellar rooms, including freshly produced dry ice from ASCO CARBON DIOXID LTD.

ASCO talked to Jaison Thomas, Manager of “Crystal Dry Ice Factory” in Doha/Qatar. The newly established company within the Al-Diyar Group produces dry ice with two ASCO Dry Ice Machines BP420i. Crystal Dry Ice Factory’s core business is the production of dry ice for the various industrial applications for airlines, factories, automotive industry, restaurants, etc. ASCO was interested to learn more about their local market and what the upcoming Football World Cup event means to them and in why dry ice is important in motorsports.