Dry Ice Blasting Equipment for Foundries and Metal Casting

Permanent Mold Casting Cleaning

Extend Asset Life and Improve Quality with Non-Abrasive Cleaning

Sand blasting and wire brushing progressively erode expensive tooling with every cleaning cycle. This cumulative damage rounds critical parting lines, degrades surface finishes, and forces premature mold retirement. Dry ice blasting eliminates this cycle by removing contaminants without physical substrate wear, allowing operators to clean molds while still mounted and at operating temperature.

Surface integrity is critical for gravity-fed and low-pressure molds where even microscopic changes affect metal flow and part release. Dry ice safely removes refractory coatings, graphite lubricants, and carbonized release agents from complex parting lines and internal cooling channels without abrasive wear. A major automotive foundry extended mold service life by 40% after switching to dry ice cleaning, significantly reducing annual tooling replacement costs.

Core Box Maintenance and Cleaning

Reduce Cleaning Cycles by up to 86% While Protecting Precision Tolerances

Core box cleaning is often a maintenance bottleneck, forcing foundries to rely on manual scraping or costly outside service providers. Cold Jet dry ice cleaning reaches into complex geometries and removes hardened resins and sand binders in minutes rather than hours. By cleaning in-house and in-place, foundries reduce backup tooling inventory and eliminate weeks of lead time.

• Cold Box and Shell Core Box Cleaning

  Efficiently remove resins, binders, and release agents from cold box and shell core equipment. One foundry reported reducing a 6-hour manual cleaning cycle to less than one hour with dry ice blasting—without the abrasive wear that degrades the precision surfaces required for dimensional accuracy. This ensures that every core produced meets strict as-designed specifications.

• Precision Vent and Screen Cleaning

  Dry ice blasting restores optimal airflow by clearing clogged slot and screen vents—the primary cause of gas porosity and casting defects—without the abrasive damage caused by manual scrubbing. Dry ice cleaning lifts hardened resins while preserving the sharp edges of vents. This prevents vent flash, ensures consistent gas evacuation, and lowers scrap rates by maintaining the integrity of the exhaust system.

• Core Room Equipment and Tooling

  Extend the life of oven systems, handling fixtures, and equipment in the core room. Dry ice’s non-conductive properties allow for the safe cleaning of sensors without risking electrical failure. This comprehensive approach minimizes unplanned downtime across the entire core room.

Die Cast Tooling and General Equipment Cleaning

Clean Tooling In-Situ and Eliminate Secondary Waste from Production Lines

Die casting operations face a critical challenge: contamination degrades part quality, but taking equipment offline kills production throughput. Cold Jet dry ice blasting solves this by cleaning hot tooling without abrasive damage, chemicals, or production shutdown.

Remove oxides and heavy die lubricant buildup while tooling is still at operating temperature, eliminating hours wasted on cooldown and disassembly. Whether managing semi-solid casting, squeeze casting, or high-pressure die casting (HPDC), dry ice ensures superior surface preparation between runs without rounding precision parting lines. One facility eliminated two hours of downtime per die change, enabling immediate return to production.