Dry ice blasting is similar to sand blasting, plastic bead blasting, or soda blasting where a medium is accelerated in a pressurized air stream to impact a surface to be cleaned or prepared. Instead of using hard abrasive media to grind on a surface (and damage it), dry ice blasting uses soft dry ice, accelerated at supersonic speeds, creating mini-explosions on the surface to lift the undesirable item off the underlying substrate.

Dry ice blasting has many unique and superior benefits over traditional blasting media. It is a non-abrasive, nonflammable and nonconductive cleaning method and is environmentally-friendly and contains no secondary contaminants such as solvents or grit media.