Turn the clock back 12 months and the dry ice business was one of the hot topic growth spots for the gases industry and an area of cool optimism against a backdrop of lingering CO2 tightness in some regions. Now, however, it’s the hot topic as 2021 gets underway and the dominant subject in CO2 circles. The reasons for that lie in millions of tiny vials of Covid-19 vaccines.
Where we’ve seen – and continue to see – heartbreak and despair, there is now a sense of renewed hope on the horizon in mass vaccination programmes. And that hope, when it comes to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, for example, is shrouded in a critical blanket of dry ice for its distribution.
It’s another sign of our industry’s important role to play not just in fighting this tiresome pandemic but also in assisting the slow burn of economic recoveries the world over. For the dry ice business, it’s another hallmark of a role in society that’s far from subliminal – and the demand it generates has only just begun.
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