Dry Ice by Eco has been supporting industries for 17 years with its sustainable world-class cleaning technology helping businesses operate their machinery efficiently, maximising productivity and revenues.

With businesses across the UK facing rising costs and fragile global supply chains, the new Dry Ice Academy by Eco now provides them with the opportunity to take control of their own operations.

The Dry Ice Academy provides organisations with specialist equipment, training and ongoing technical support to enable them to perform in-situ cleaning without dismantling downtime and disruption to production.

The new service gives businesses everything they need to bring dry ice cleaning in-house, including a new dry ice blaster, certified operator training, a regular dry ice pellet supply delivered anywhere in the UK, and ongoing technical support.

The idea for the Academy came to Steven McCreadie, Head of Dry Ice by Eco, when a company in the South-East of England was losing productivity by delaying small cleaning jobs that were sorted within seconds by the Dry Ice team being on site. He has also seen other businesses let their equipment degrade until it is unfit for purpose.

It gave Steven the inspiration for a new business approach where organisations could have their own affordable Dry Ice solution on-site operated by their own upskilled in-house team.

Steven said: “The aim of the Dry Ice Academy by Eco is to help businesses upskill their own staff, reduce cleaning and maintenance downtime, lower reliance on external cleaning contractors, lessen their reliance on traditional cleaning methods such as water and chemicals. and maximise productivity. 

“Sometimes businesses face small jobs that are critical to manufacturing and to processes but don’t seem worth getting a contractor out.

“The answer is to provide businesses with the right equipment, the right training, and the right support to enable them to perform the clean themselves in-situ with no downtime or secondary waste.

“Under this arrangement businesses don’t have to solve those tasks by taking machinery apart and cleaning it by hand with all the downtime and lost productivity. The return on investment is huge.

“There’s also a strong sustainability case for Dry Ice Cleaning. It can help businesses reduce water usage, which we all know has become a big issue recently, minimise the use of cleaning chemicals and reduce secondary waste on site, which all supports businesses improving their environmental performance and working towards their own sustainability and carbon reduction goals.”

As long-time leading experts in their field the Annan-based Dry Ice by Eco team will pass on their knowledge to UK businesses across a range of sectors including: Food and Beverage Manufacturing; Printing and Packaging; Industrial Laundry and Textiles; Automotive; Aerospace and Aviation; Engineering and Heavy Manufacturing; Marine; Power Generation and Energy; Pharmaceutical; and Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing.

Eddie Black, Managing Director of Eco Group, said: “As a multi-discipline business we also walk the walk. We use Dry Ice Cleaning to ensure our advanced manufacturing plant is the cleanest of its type in the world. It keeps it so reliable. 

“We will also be using the same methods at our new 60,000-square-feet VASO manufacturing site which combines digital design, integrated manufacture and semi-autonomous construction to produce world-first high-performance structural composite panels which will transform construction across the UK and beyond.

“At a time when businesses are facing costs going through the roof, the price of replacing parts soaring, and ongoing global disruption to supply chains, the Dry Ice Academy will help businesses around the UK take control of their own destiny. 

“Everyone is using innovation for efficiency and sustainability. We wanted to make Dry Ice Cleaning affordable so many more businesses operate in this way. It will save industry downtime and cost and improve their operations so much, it will be an absolute gamechanger for them.”

For further details contact: dryiceacademy@teameco.co.uk