Experience counts! Stoner & Company has been cleaning printing equipment with dry ice since 1994.

C02 cleaning was first developed by the aircraft manufacturing companies for cleaning their products. To date, its uses cover a wide range of industries which among others include printing, automotive, cosmetic and plastics.

It is the most efficient and economical way to clean printing equipment. Just ask any of the major printing press manufacturers, who also happen to be some of our best customers, such as Komori, Heidelberg, MAN Roland and Mitsubishi. Ask them how C02 cleaning has saved them time and money and increased their equipment’s resale value.

C02 cleaning is a state of the art cleaning process that takes air and dry ice, combines them, and delivers them with precision at whatever the cleaning gun is pointed. The temperature of dry ice is -110 degrees. The media is delivered at 130 PSI and 200 CFM. That means things like dried ink and coating are instantly frozen and blasted away.

Dry ice is a gas in its natural state. So, after you apply it to the area to be cleaned, it just evaporates leaving no residual moisture or residue to contaminate other parts of the machine such as bearings, bushings or electrical components.

Stoner & Company is the largest user of dry ice in this type of cleaning process using 30,000 lbs. of dry ice per month. We own six (6) C02 cleaning machines that apply pellets or shaved dry ice. Any three (3) of these machines operate six (6) days a week, ten (10) hours a day depending on the specific cleaning needs we have.