Oxarc Inc., the industry leader in welding and industrial supplies, as well as industrial, medical and specialty gases with a large presence in Northwest USA, has signed a partnership with IceTech America to distribute the latter’s top range Dry Ice Blasting
equipment from February 1, 2010 onwards. With twenty locations in the region, Oxarc will be making this cutting edge cleaning technology easily available to the industries there.

Dry Ice Blasting has been fast gaining popularity as an alternative cleaning method due to its non-abrasive properties and that it does not leave behind any secondary toxic waste. Its efficiency and effectiveness far exceeds conventional industrial cleaning
methods and it has been proven to reduce maintenance downtime and man-hour costs. “We have been receiving many enquiries from the Pacific Northwest region, so we had to find a distributor with a solid track record and a strong market presence in that region,”
said Dennis Hjort, President of IceTech America Inc. “Oxarc already has strong market presence and professional sales team in the three states. With its long history of providing excellent products and after sales services it was an obvious choice to have
them as IceTech’s distributor”.

With dry ice pelletizing capabilities already established at Oxarc since 2008, adding blasting equipment to its product inventory enables the company to offer a complete package of both cleaning equipment and material. They are now able to offer the right
equipment for their customers’ specific application needs.

The partnership did not come quickly. Oxarc chooses only manufacturers and equipment that compliments their full line of products that matches their expectation of quality and value. “After researching and comparing several competitors, the features, benefits, and quality of the IceTech equipment, made IceTech the right decision,” said Mike Sutley, General Manager & Vice President of Oxarc. “It helps that IceTech was easy to do business with and understood the value a distributor brings to the sales when developing sales.”

Since the partnership was forged, Oxarc has already hit the market strong with several success stories. “Oxarc likes to be diversified. Dry Ice Blasting has given us another opportunity that adds sales dollars and margin to the bottom line,” said Mr. Sutley. “This year our sales trend has already shown a 5% higher than expected revenue. By selling IceTech’s blasting equipment we believe it will naturally lead to additional dry ice sales. We are looking forward to a very positive growth by this year”.
Mr. Hjort concurs, “ We are very confident that the partnership between IceTech and OXARC will produce synergistic growth for both companies. Our focus now is to provide the best support possible to Oxarc”.

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Note to Editors
More About Dry Ice Blasting
Dry Ice Blasting is a cleaning technology that uses dry ice pellets propelled at high speed to clean off surface contamination, corrosion and deposits on industrial production equipment. It is a powerful alternative to traditional methods of cleaning because it reduces maintenance downtime and man-hour costs. The non-abrasive cleaning process will not damage the surface and is completely environmentally friendly. Dry Ice Blasting avoids the use of conventional chemical intensive cleaning methods with no secondary toxic waste produced. Even the gas used in making the dry ice is derived from the byproducts of other industries that would otherwise have been released only to contribute directly to greenhouse warming.