Film Line Rollers Cleaned in 3-Hour Idle Windows

Polymer residue on extrusion rollers was causing defects, scrap, and downtime.

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Owner / Site: Plastics film manufacturer (name withheld)
Engaged through: Direct
Scope: Dry ice blasting, film extrusion line
Scale: Single plant, recurring

The work

Clean Metro dry ice blasted the rollers, dies, cooling rings, and tower frames in 3-hour idle windows so the line kept running, with containment hung around the work.

Results at that plant: 60% less downtime and 80% fewer labor hours on roller cleaning. It's now a recurring service.

60%less roller downtime

80%fewer labor hours on roller cleaning

3 hridle windows

From the job

A CMI tech dry ice blasts the frame of a film production tower from inside its guarded platform.

CMI tech works up inside a film tower's cooling ring assembly, plastic containment hung all around.

Masked CMI tech blasts residue off the column and arms inside a film tower.

Harnessed and tied-off tech dry ice blasts machine framework from the top deck of a film line.

Close up as a CMI tech hits film-line tooling with the dry ice gun, vapor coming off the arm.

Tech in a CMI hoodie reaches overhead with the blast gun to clean a cooling ring inside containment.

Services on this job

Service

Dry Ice Blasting

We dry ice blast plastics and extrusion lines, rubber molds, production equipment, ovens, rollers, ducts, and structures without water,...

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Shutdown & Outage

We pack cleaning into your shutdown, outage, or idle windows, sequenced around your restart...

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