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    Dry Ice Blasting Services in Billings, MT

    Refining, rail and distribution, industrial fleet, and heavy equipment across the Yellowstone Valley.

    ~117,000 (metro ~185,000) Refining · Rail & Distribution · Heavy Equipment · Food Processing

    Why Summit Cryo serves Billings

    Billings is Montana's largest metro and the industrial center of the eastern half of the state. We route into Yellowstone County on a recurring schedule for refining-adjacent fleet work, food processors along King Avenue, and rail-served distribution along the Lockwood corridor. Drive time from our Kalispell base is roughly 7 hours, which is why everything we do here is scoped as a multi-day block rather than a single-day visit.

    Industrial corridors we route into

    The corridors below are where we run the most volume in and around Billings. If your facility sits inside one of these, you're already on a route we run regularly.

    • Lockwood industrial / I-90 east
      Rail-served warehousing, oilfield service yards, and heavy equipment dealers east of the Yellowstone River.
    • King Avenue West / Zoo Drive
      Food processing, distribution, and commercial fleet centered around the King Ave interchange.
    • Refinery corridor (Laurel / Lockwood)
      Refinery-adjacent contractors, fabrication shops, and turnaround service yards.
    • South Frontage Road / Billings Logan
      Aviation ground support, fleet maintenance, and government fleet within the airport industrial cluster.
    • Downtown / Heights restoration
      Historic brick downtown and Heights residential — fire and smoke restoration callouts for insurance partners.

    Example jobs we run in Billings

    Refinery-adjacent fabrication & turnaround equipment
    Soot, scale, and coking stripped from heat exchangers, manifolds, and fabricated piping at independent shops supporting Laurel and Billings refineries.
    Class 8 fleet & trailer undercarriages
    Recurring undercarriage and frame cleaning for distribution fleets running I-90 between Billings, Bismarck, and Spokane.
    Food plant lines (USDA / FDA oversight)
    Conveyor frames, packaging-line drive trains, and oven exteriors blasted between sanitation windows as a mechanical soil-removal step — no process water, no chemical residue of our own; fit within the plant's SSOP or HACCP plan is the plant's own determination.
    Rail equipment & locomotive shop work
    Trucks, brake rigging, and exterior carbody cleaning for short-line and Class I rail-served maintenance shops in Lockwood.
    Dispatch & travel

    Billings is a 7-hour drive each way from Kalispell, so we never quote it as a single-day visit. The standard scope is a multi-day route covering Billings, Bozeman, and sometimes Bismarck on the same eastbound block, which splits the drive time across multiple customers and lands the best per-asset rate.

    Pilot → recurring program

    Industrial and fleet accounts in Billings almost always start with a pilot day during a planned route and convert to a quarterly route slot. Recurring customers get a fixed weekend or shutdown window each quarter so their maintenance team can plan around it.

    Counties & communities served

    From our Billings dispatch radius we cover the following counties and surrounding communities — call for jobs outside this list:

    • Yellowstone County
    • Stillwater County
    • Carbon County
    • Big Horn County

    Industries we work with locally

    RefiningRail & DistributionHeavy EquipmentFood Processing

    Cleaning applications we run in Billings

    Tuned to Billings's industry mix — refining, rail & distribution, heavy equipment. Each one is a dry-ice fit for a specific reason, and most local jobs combine two or three.

    All applications

    Pricing in Billings

    Local: $275/on-site hour, 2-hour minimum · Beyond 25 driving miles: $1,000 minimum project charge.

    Local on-site hour
    $275

    per on-site hour within 25 driving miles of Kalispell, 2-hour minimum

    Local minimum charge
    $550

    2 on-site hours at $275

    Beyond 25 driving miles
    $1,000

    minimum total project charge; a higher scoped quote controls

    Recurring programs
    Quoted

    scoped in writing per site and cadence

    Mobilization: Roughly 7–8 hours one way via US-93 and I-90.

    Service zone: More than 25 driving miles from Kalispell, MT: a $1,000 minimum total project charge applies. It is a floor, not a surcharge — if the scoped written quote is higher, the approved quote controls. Overnight per-diem is itemised when an overnight is required.

    Usually quoted as a routed multi-day trip rather than a single small job.

    Dry ice supply near the site is confirmed with the supplier before dates are offered.

    Most Billings work is booked alongside Bozeman or Yellowstone Valley stops.

    Final scope and price are confirmed after a site review and, where appropriate, a test patch. Full rate card.

    Billings questions, answered

    How does pricing work for Billings if you're driving from Kalispell?

    Billings is well beyond 25 driving miles from our base, so the $1,000 minimum total project charge applies and travel is itemised on the written estimate. We route Billings into an eastbound trip that spreads travel across multiple customers.

    Can you handle refinery turnaround support?

    We work for fabrication shops, machine shops, and service contractors supporting the Laurel and Billings refinery complex. We don't currently operate inside the refinery fence line — that work goes through the refiners' permitted contractors.

    Do you cover Hardin, Miles City, or further east?

    Yes, as part of a Billings route. Anything east of Billings is quoted with drive time and a per-diem; we typically pair it with a multi-day Eastern Montana / Western North Dakota block.

    Request a Billings quote

    This form runs on the same live lead flow as the rest of the site — it lands on our dispatch board and in the ops inboxes, and you get an emailed acknowledgement as soon as it is received.

    1. 1Service
    2. 2Site & scope
    3. 3Job details
    4. 4Contact

    What do you need cleaned?

    Billings — buyer voices

    What customers in this market tell us

    Site walk and written scope

    We walk the assets with you before quoting, then send a written scope so there is no ambiguity about what is and isn't included.

    Test patch before full scope

    We run a test patch on the actual substrate before committing to the full job, so you can see the result before we proceed.

    Your maintenance window

    We work inside your maintenance window, subject to site access and ventilation requirements — not the other way around.

    Photo and time log on completion

    Every job closes with a photo record and a time log, so you have documentation on file for your own records.

    Ready to scope a cleaning window?