Such is its versatility and increasing range of applications, one could be forgiven for thinking they’ve heard this statement many times before over the last decade: dry ice is in vogue like never before.
As 2021 begins to draw to a close, however, that sentiment could not ring any more true. Dry ice had never been in the news headlines as much since the development of the Covid-19 vaccine in summer 2020. In fact, it was around 12 months ago this November, that the first big stories began to break around the significant cryogenic requirements that a global vaccine roll-out would create.
But it is not only dry ice’s role in the storage and distribution of vaccines that has seen it in increasing demand. Indeed, the food sector, and the growing trend of home delivery as communities had to live with social distancing and restrictions to limit the spread of coronavirus, has also been driving demand – so much so that these growth drivers have been able to offset the loss of consumption from an aviation sector that had been so grounded itself for large parts of the last 18 months.
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