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Our family has been in the
dry ice business since 1948. We are the major
supplier of dry ice, solid and pellets, for
laboratories and hospitals in the Houston Medical
Center.
In addition, CMR Carbonics supplies air freight
companies the dry ice needed to air freight food
products and medical specimens all over the world.
Dry Ice is sold by sixty pound blocks, either
solid block or sliced into five pieces of
approximately twelve pounds each. Dry Ice pellets
are sold by fifty pound bags. CMR Carbonics sells
dry ice by the block, the slice, half slice,
pound, scrap and in pellets.
Dry Ice is -109 F, and precautions must be taken
in handling the product so as not to burn your
skin. It may be transported in bags or boxes and
may be stored in dry ice or wet ice style coolers.
Dry Ice is compressed CO2 gas, and immediately
begins dissolving after being formed, vaporizing
into the air as an odorless, tasteless gas. During
transportation of Dry Ice, precautions should be
taken to ensure a steady fresh air supply since
the vaporizing CO2 displaces oxygen. Kept in an
air-tight cooler, one sixty pound block of Dry Ice
will dissolve in approximately seventy-two hours.
CYLINDER SALES
Carbonics stocks 5 lb., 10 lb. and 20 lb.
aluminum cylinders to sell to companies or to the
public. Many home brewers purchase their CO2
cylinders from Carbonics.
CYLINDER CO2 GAS REFILLS
Carbonics supplies the Greater Houston Area
restaurant and beverage industries with their CO2
gas needs. We specialize in 20 lb. and 50 lb.
cylinder refills, with pick ups and deliveries on
either a route basis or call-in basis.
Carbonics is one of the few companies in the
Greater Houston Area that will fill a customer’s
cylinder while they wait. For this reason, many
home brewers bring their cylinders for refilling
to our warehouse facility at 506 Nebraska Street,
South Houston, Texas 77587.
CYLINDER PARTS
Carbonics stocks gauges, handles, handwheels,
stem nuts, springs and washers for Luxfer and
Catalina cylinders. We can repair your cylinder in
our shop while you wait.
Plumbers, air conditioning and refrigeration
professionals and the pool service and repair
professionals frequently require the pressure and
clean air provided by CO2.
Carbonics stocks 5’ blow-out hoses with fittings
that attach to a CO2 cylinder. This “blow-out”
arrangement is used any time there is a need to
blow out a line or clean something and need the
pressure and cleanliness of CO2 gas.
HYDROSTATIC
TESTING
Federal law mandates that high pressure cylinders
be visually inspected and hydrostatically tested
every five years to ensure their safety and
integrity. During the testing process, small pit
areas or stress areas on the interior or exterior
will cause a cylinder to be unfit for service. If
no pitting or stress areas are found, then the
cylinder is stamped and put back in service for
another five years.
The picture below shows what can happen to a
weakened cylinder that is pressurized with gas. It
can be dangerous or lethal, so it's important to
get your cylinder tested every 5 years, not just
to comply with federal law, but also to protect
yourself, family, friends, or customers!
If hydrostatic testing of your cylinder is in
order, Carbonics offers that service along with
painting your cylinder the color of your
choice.
HELIUM
CYLINDER RENTALS
Carbonics provides 50 lb. helium rental
cylinders. Companies such as automobile car lots,
party supply stores, pharmacies and more keep a HE
cylinder available for inflating balloons either
for their own purposes or for selling inflated
balloons.
HELIUM CYLINDER
REFILLS
Carbonics will come to your place of business and
pick up the empty HE rental tank and leave a full
rental tank as needed.
BALLOON
REGULATORS
Carbonics recommends using balloon regulators
with a gauge, so that overfilling of balloons does
not occur.
Carbonics has balloon regulators with a gauge for
sale and for rent. We also sell or rent balloon
regulators without a gauge.
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