Stop buying dry ice — produce it on site, with your own machine

For a company that uses dry ice — whether for blasting (cleaning) or for cooling and transport — most of the cost seems to be the price per kilogram. That is why the decision is usually made simply: you call the supplier and place an order. But hidden in that price is a cost no one puts on the invoice: sublimation.

Dry ice does not melt; it sublimates — passing directly from solid to gas — continuously, from the moment it is produced. That means the ice you buy loses mass on the road, in the warehouse and until you use it. In effect, you also pay for the part that vanishes before it gets to work. Add to that supplier dependence: minimum orders, delivery windows and the risk of running out of stock exactly when you need it.

Why cheaper per kg doesn’t tell the whole story

The supplier’s price per kilogram includes transport and their margin, but it does not make up for the ice lost to sublimation after delivery. The more you store and the more irregular your consumption, the more you lose of what you paid for. And the pellet size is dictated by the supplier, not by your application — which is far from ideal when you need fine pellets for blasting and large pellets for cooling.

What an in-house dry ice machine changes

A pelletizer shifts the question from where do I buy cheaper to why buy at all. It compresses liquid CO₂ and turns it into dense pellets right at your premises, up to 180 kg/h, in sizes of 3, 10 or 16 mm. You produce exactly as much ice as you need, exactly when you use it — so sublimation no longer has time to consume your stock.

For the decision-maker, this means cost per kg under control and independence from the supplier. For the operator, it means on-demand availability, without waiting for a delivery. And for the technical team, it means pellets of the right size for each application, produced with a known consumption of 7,5 kW that you can put straight into your calculation.

Does the investment pay off? We calculate it on your figures

We won’t promise you a payback in 6 months we can’t prove. The real gain depends on your monthly consumption and the current purchase price per kg. That is why we propose a concrete calculation: you tell us how much you consume and how much you pay now, and we put the in-house production cost (CO₂ + energy) side by side with the avoided purchase cost and the eliminated sublimation loss.

Below you can see the exact parameters of the pelletizer, the recommended equipment and what in-house production means for your cost per kilogram and your autonomy.