Continental Carbonic Company Overview

Continental Carbonic Products, Inc. specializes in the manufacture and distribution of dry ice (solid carbon dioxide) and liquid carbon dioxide. Along with sales & rentals of dry ice blasting equipment, we service customers throughout the eastern half of the United States in a variety of industries that use dry ice, including:

• food processing
• meat and poultry packing
• wholesale food distribution
• in-flight catering
• laboratory and research
• mail order/gift food packaging
• industrial blast cleaning
• metal shrink fitting
• pharmaceutical distribution
• temperature control
• blood and plasma services

Continental Carbonic maintains a reliable network of 33 dry ice distribution facilities located strategically throughout our service area. This integrated dry ice distribution network ensures that we can quickly react to our customers' dry ice needs.

During our many years in the dry ice and liquid C02 business, Continental Carbonic has seen the use of dry ice expand across industries because of its affordability and versatility. The demand for dry ice continues to grow with the introduction of a technology called dry ice blasting or dry ice blast cleaning. The sale of dry ice blasting equipment, dry ice blasting pellets and dry ice blasting services is an area of rapid growth for our company.

Company Goals and Values

• Deal with each other, customers, and suppliers with fairness and integrity.
• Outperform the competition by providing customers better service, quality, and price.
• Satisfy customers so that they become fans and advocates of our company.
• Remain the low-cost supplier in the markets we serve.
• Identify and contract for additional production capacity consistent with remaining the low-cost supplier in the market.

Company History

Robert O. Wiesemann Sr. and his son Robert O. Wiesemann II founded Continental Carbonic in 1976. During its first 10 years, Continental Carbonic operated as a distributor of dry ice in Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri and Oklahoma.

In the mid-1980s, Continental Carbonic began manufacturing dry ice in Decatur, Illinois. Throughout the late '80s and '90s, Continental Carbonic expanded to the south and the west by acquisition and construction of strategically located dry ice manufacturing facilities and branch offices to provide a ready supply closer to a continually growing customer base. The company opened branch offices to market the increased production capacity and to quickly react to customer service needs. Continental Carbonic's decentralized distribution philosophy enabled it to provide a reliable source of dry ice while remaining the low-cost supplier in the markets it served, as it continues to do today.

Continental Carbonic has enjoyed an unbroken record of profitability since its inception, with more than $70,000,000 in annual sales.