In a food plant, wash water is a liability — it breeds bacteria, invades electrical, and takes lines down for hours of dry-out. Dry ice cleans conveyors, ovens, mixers and packaging equipment in place with food-grade CO₂ — no water, no chemicals, no residue. We travel to Utah food plants — the Cache Valley dairy and cheese cluster around Logan, food manufacturing along the Wasatch Front, and cold storage and packaging in the Salt Lake and Ogden corridor.
Sanitation that soaks your plant creates the next problem while solving the last one. Dry ice cleans dry — and reaches the buildup wash-downs leave behind.
In a food plant, wash water breeds bacteria, invades electrical and drives hours of dry-out. Dry ice cleans with zero moisture — dry-production areas stay dry.
Clean near product zones without solvents or rinse cycles. The CO₂ sublimates; nothing is left behind but the soil we remove and collect.
Ovens, fryers and hot equipment can be cleaned without full cooldown — less thermal cycling, less waiting, faster return to production.
We clean equipment in place — no teardown, no reassembly, no waiting for surfaces to dry before restart.
Documented cleaning of equipment, framework and overhead supports your FDA, USDA, SQF and BRC readiness — accumulation is gone before the auditor arrives.
Carbonized grease, burnt sugars, flour buildup, label adhesive, conveyor residue — dry ice lifts the stubborn soils standard sanitation leaves behind.
We see results like these on our own jobs — but you don't have to take our word for it. The figures below come from independent, published industry sources.
“Packaging operations can reduce downtime by up to 75%” with dry ice cleaning.
Dirty coils can reduce cooling-system efficiency by as much as 30%.
From the mixing floor to packaging — dry ice removes the soils that survive your standard wash-down, without putting water anywhere near the line.
Remove buildup from belts, rollers, frames and drive components without water in the line.
Strip carbonized grease and burnt product from ovens, fryers, racks and pans — cleaned hot.
Detail equipment exteriors, frames and hard-to-reach housings without chemical washdown.
Clean fillers, labelers and case packers — including adhesive residue — with no moisture near electronics.
Clean racking, surfaces and equipment in freezer and cooler zones — no water that becomes ice.
Framework, piping and rafters above the line — paired with our combustible dust service where flour or sugar dust accumulates.
Yes — we blast with food-grade CO₂ pellets that sublimate on contact, leaving no water, no chemical residue and no blast media behind. Dry ice cleaning is standard practice across the food and beverage industry. We work within your sanitation program; it complements, not replaces, the sanitizing steps your SSOPs require.
Often, yes — we zone the work and schedule around your runs: off-shifts, weekends, or planned sanitation windows. Some equipment needs brief local downtime, and we flag exactly which in the plan.
Yes. Carbonized buildup on ovens, fryers, racks and bakeware is one of dry ice blasting's best applications — it lifts the char without soaking equipment or scratching surfaces.
Overhead combustible dust gets its own controlled approach — vacuum-based, grounded and bonded, reached by rope access where lifts can't go. See our combustible dust & high-ceiling cleaning service; we often bundle it with a plant cleaning.
That's one of the most common reasons plants call us. We do documented pre-audit deep cleans — equipment, framework and overhead — so accumulation issues are gone before the auditor walks the floor.
Alpine is a mobile operation based in Tempe, Arizona, and we travel to Utah for scheduled industrial work — plant shutdowns, sanitation windows and planned maintenance. Tell us your dates and we will build the trip around them.
Outside this area? Call us — we travel for large-scale industrial jobs. (480) 256-8092
Tell us about your plant — the equipment, the soils, and your sanitation or audit schedule. We'll scope it and respond within 4 business hours.
We'll respond with a custom scope within 4 hours. For urgent jobs, call (480) 256-8092.