How to use Artic Pack Ice Sheets

 Artic Pack Ice Sheets are easily cut along the seams using a knife or scissors to make sheets that fit snugly in your size box. Artic Pack Ice Sheets can be cut while dry, hydrated, or even when frozen.

Soak Artic Pack Ice Sheets in lukewarm tap water long enough for the cells to swell tight. This usually takes only 10 to 15 minutes. Take them out of the water, shake them off and let them stand for 15 - 20 minutes before placing them in the freezer. The gel will continue to absorb the surface water on the fabric, therefore drying the pads off. 

NOTE: If you soak them too long the absorbent gel will get TOO FULL of water and there will be un-absorbed surface water left on them.  If you freeze them while they are over-saturated and still wet, when you take them out of the freezer the water that was left on the surface will be frozen to the outside of the sheet. When that ice melts it will leave the false impression that the ice sheet leaked. The water that was left on the outside of the sheets, then frozen, then melts and runs off the outside of the ice packs onto your product is called "run-off". If some "run-off" is not a problem then don't worry about it, soak them as long as you like and throw them straight in the freezer. If run-off IS a problem if it happens in your application and you accidentally soak the too long, just spread them out and let the excess water evaporate until they are dry to the touch, then put them in the freezer.

When placing the sheets in the freezer (if you MUST stack them) MAKE SURE THAT SHEETS ARE ALL STACKED PLASTIC SIDE DOWN TO PREVENT THEM FROM STICKING TO THE FREEZER SHELF AND TO EACH OTHER!

The hydrated Artic Pack Ice Sheets, or for that matter, gel packs or even plain water, must be left in the freezer until completely frozen solid before being used as a shipping refrigerant.

NOTE: One ice sheet will freeze much faster than 10 ice sheets (or 10 gel packs) stacked on top of each other in the freezer. The same basic rules apply to Artic Pack Ice Sheets. The air channels between the stacked Artic Pack Ice Sheets will help the ice packs freeze faster than stacked gel packs that will lay together with no gaps between them.

Artic Pack Ice Sheets can be also be cut in long strips and frozen to be draped over pallets. Pallets of flowers, fruit, vegetables, seafood, meat, or any heat sensitive product that must wait on a dock or an airport  tarmac, can be protected with Artic Pack Ice Sheet Strips and Blankets. There is absolutely NO refrigerant product available that is easier to use or that's better for protecting palletized perishables.