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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 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.