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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 CARBON DIOXIDE LTD offers the maximum flexibility in dry ice production with the ASCO Dry Ice Pelletizer P55i. The compact and powerful machine has two independent hydraulic units and pellet ejectors. This allows either to produce two identical or different pellet sizes simultaneously. The ASCO P55i reaches a production capacity of 550 kg/h and belongs to the latest i-Series generation.

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

Fourage-CTI in La Haie-Fouassière is an independent family-owned company, which offers global solutions for beverage industries and agro-food industries. The French company's customers are mainly divided into two business sectors, which are the beverage industries and the food industry. Fourage-CTI supplies their services locally (the Loire Valley, Brittany and Normandy) as well as national wide (Metropolitan France, France outside mainland and export on a case-by-case basis). Two recently delivered ASCO Dry Ice Pelletizers P28i reliably support Fourage-CTI to fulfill their dry ice contracts.

ASCO CARBON DIOXIDE LTD was successfully recertified according to DIN ISO 9001:2015 by the Swiss Association for Quality and Management Systems (SQS) at the beginning of 2021. The new certificate is valid for 3 years until 08 April 2024. Quality management has been a tradition for years at the CO2 specialist at its main site in Romanshorn (Switzerland).

FOURCOMEX and its sister company FLUXOS DISTRIBUIDORA are ASCOs new sales partner in South American countries Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Brasil. ASCO talked to Jorge Antonio Lavanchy, Marketing and Sales Manager, to find out more about the the dry ice market in South America.

Alex Schmidt, Head of Product Management, ASCO Carbon Dioxide Ltd, gives insights into his daily work. Learn more about new development trends and what ASCO customers can look forward to this year.

ASCO talked with Dasiras Fragiskos, General Manager of Dry Ice Creation in Athens, Greece about the dry ice situation in his country. Fragiskos shared his thoughts about the main dry ice industries and future potential, about the importance of dry ice blasting and the vision for his company to become a dry ice full-service provider.

The company ASCO Carbon Dioxide LTD has been offering individual solutions for dry ice production worldwide for decades. With "ASCO CAREFREE", the CO2 specialist has now successfully launched a completely new rental solution for dry ice production technologies. This is possible thanks to the state-of-the-art "ASCO i-Series technology", which even allows pay-per-use options. Dry ice, recently also called "white gold", is currently the talk of the town as it guarantees an uninterrupted cold chain down to -79°Celsius (-110°F) when shipping COVID19 vaccines worldwide.

Jeff Readhead and Paul Thompson are the founders of Fraser Valley Dry Ice in Abbotsford, British Columbia (Canada). The company produces dry ice for the transportation, food processing, dry ice blasting, and extraction industries. Only a few months before this interview an ASCO dry ice machine BP420i of the ASCO i-Series generation has been delivered. In just a short time Fraser Valley Dry Ice has placed an order for a second dry ice machine BP420i. ASCO asks for the reason.