Manufacturing businesses looking to operate more efficiently in 2025 are being helped by an unlikely source – dry ice.

It’s not the white stuff which gave us all a freezing cold start to January, it’s instead the friend of engineering managers, maintenance managers, production managers and project managers up and down the country who want their manufacturing plants and machinery to run smoothly all year round.

Dry ice cleaning is one of the most effective ways of keeping factories, plants and production lines, working to their maximum capacity.

By keeping plant and equipment expertly maintained through a dry ice cleaning programme, industries keep their facilities and environments working efficiently for longer, reducing costly downtime, increasing productivity and reducing the level of investment needed in new parts and equipment.

Dry Ice cleans all types of surfaces and machinery. It is:

  • environmentally friendly;
  • increases productivity, reduces downtime and costs;
  • prolongs lifespan of assets
  • non-abrasive, no damage
  • moisture-free cleaning
  • faster and more efficient cleaning
  • no secondary waste / residue
  • safe around electrical components

Now one of the UK’s leading dry ice cleaning companies, which has 15 years of experience in the industry and supports manufacturing in a range of sectors including food and drink, pharmaceutical, printing and packaging, as well as fire restoration, is offering businesses a trial so they too can experience the benefits of dry ice.

Steven McCreadie, Dry Ice Team Leader at Eco Group, dry ice cleaning in an industrial environment.

Eco Dry Ice, which operates long-term maintenance contracts for industries across the UK, is offering the one-off trial to businesses in Scotland and the North of England, including Glasgow and Edinburgh, central and southern Scotland, Newcastle and the north-east, Manchester, Lancashire, and Cumbria.

Steven McCreadie, Dry Ice Team Leader at Eco Group, said: “Customers are always amazed by the capabilities of dry ice. They are always in awe of how quick and easy it is to get their equipment cleaned, and how soon they see the benefits to their business. They often say they didn’t think it was possible to achieve those results.

“With businesses facing rising costs in 2025, trialling a dry ice cleaning programme should be high on their list to make their operations more efficient and cost-effective.

“Businesses want to control their costs and not have any nasty surprises on top of their known outgoings. A dry ice cleaning programme helps them stay in control.”

Dry ice is an eco-friendly solution which is coming into its own as businesses are wanting to extend the life of their equipment and increase productivity.

Steven said: “Businesses on a regular dry ice cleaning programme have the benefit of maintaining their equipment at optimum levels which increases their productivity and reduces the risk of any costly downtime and breakdowns.

“If an industry needs to pause a production line it is very quickly going to be costing them big sums of money. If they had been on an effective, value-for-money dry ice cleaning programme it could have saved them a lot of pain and unplanned cost.

“We can tailor a bespoke solution and cleaning programme that will be of most benefit to the business we are supporting.

“Now we are also offering one-off cleans to kick start 2025 and introduce more businesses to the benefits of dry ice cleaning.”

The dry ice process can reduce overall carbon emissions by capturing carbon dioxide which would otherwise be released into the atmosphere, making it a sustainable, eco-friendly solution. The carbon dioxide used to make dry ice is often captured as a by-product of industrial processes (such as from fermentation, chemical production, or natural gas processing).

Eco Dry Ice is part of multi award-winning Eco Group, a fully qualified and SQA accredited company offering the highest level of dry ice cleaning service.