Coulson Ice Blast Ltd. was a Canadian industrial cleaning equipment manufacturer based in Port Alberni, British Columbia. It was a subsidiary of the Coulson Group of Companies.
The Coulson Group of Companies acquired the intellectual property of Universal Ice Blast, a defunct company from Washington that had previously marketed a patented “ice blasting” system.[1] The Coulson family spent several years on “reorganization and improvements to the UIB technology.”[2]
In March 2015, the ice blast venture was relaunched under its new name, Coulson Ice Blast Ltd. According to the company, its many applications included paint removal, chemical cleaning, processing chicken bones, tar removal, automotive parts cleaning, steam generator decontamination, and nuclear decontamination.[3][4] A press release issued on November 25, 2015 described Foster Coulson as Ice Blast’s General Manager.[5] The company wasn't officially incorporated until February 18, 2016.[6]
The company received funding from the National Research Council of Canada's Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP).[7]
Name | Position | Notes |
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Foster Coulson | Founder and General Manager[5:1][7:1] | - |
Wayne Coulson | Chief Executive Officer[7:2] | Coulson Group of Companies |
Coulson Ice Blast was partnered with KUKA Robotics.[8]
Gaitskell, V. (2017, October 28). Industrial cleaning with ice offers environmental advances and cost savings. Pulp and Paper Canada. https://web.archive.org/web/20230911215606/https://www.pulpandpapercanada.com/industrial-cleaning-with-ice-offers-environmental-advances-and-cost-savings-1100000843/ ↩︎
About Us. Coulson Ice Blast. Retrieved September 12, 2015, from https://web.archive.org/web/20150912000146/http://coulsoniceblast.com/about.php ↩︎
Applications. Coulson Ice Blast. Retrieved October 26, 2015, from http://archive.today/2015.10.26-005552/http://www.coulsoniceblast.com/applications/over-view.php ↩︎
Nuclear Decontamination. (2001, July). Coulson Ice Blast. https://web.archive.org/web/20160430141012/http://coulsoniceblast.com/applications/pdf/Case Study_Ice Blast Technology for Nuclear Decontamination 2001.pdf ↩︎
Coulson Ice Blast. (2015, November 25). Innovative blasting technology using wet-ice poised to change industrial cleaning. Bloomberg. https://web.archive.org/web/20230911221213/https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2015-11-25/innovative-blasting-technology-using-wet-ice-poised-to-change-industrial-cleaning ↩︎ ↩︎
COULSON ICE BLAST LTD. OrgBook BC. Retrieved September 11, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.09.11-221753/https://www.orgbook.gov.bc.ca/entity/BC1065164 ↩︎
Rockel, N. (2018, March 16). He’s putting the rest of the industrial cleaning industry on ice. BCBusiness. https://web.archive.org/web/20230911224144/https://www.bcbusiness.ca/30-Under-30-2018-Foster-Coulson ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
Home. Coulson Ice Blast. Retrieved November 1, 2020, from https://web.archive.org/web/20201101134957/http://www.coulsoniceblast.com/ ↩︎