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Ottawa Lake Plant Receives Perfect NSF Audit
June 18th in NSF AuditsOn June 18, 2010, the Home City Ice manufacturing plant located in Ottawa Lake, Michigan was audited by the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF). The location was Tested and Certified by NSF to the tune of a perfect score!! This is the eighth perfect score for Home City Ice in the 2009-2010 audit season. In the [...]
Walton Hills Plant Receives Perfect NSF Audit
May 18th in NSF AuditsOn May 18, 2010, the Home City Ice manufacturing plant located in Walton Hills, Ohio was audited by the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF). The location was Tested and Certified by NSF to the tune of a perfect score for the fourth consecutive year!! This is the seventh perfect score for Home City Ice in the [...]
Bowling Green Plant Receives Perfect NSF Audit
April 15th in NSF AuditsOn April 15, 2010, the Home City Ice manufacturing plant located in Bowling Green, Kentucky was audited by the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF). The location was Tested and Certified by NSF to the tune of a perfect score!! This is the sixth perfect score for Home City Ice in the 2009-2010 audit season. In the [...]
Ashland Plant Receives Perfect NSF Audit
March 30th in NSF AuditsOn March 30, 2010, the Home City Ice manufacturing plant located in Ashland, Ohio was audited by the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF). The location was Tested and Certified by NSF to the tune of a perfect score for the second consecutive year!! This is the fifth perfect score for Home City Ice in the 2009-2010 [...]
Louisville Plant Receives Perfect NSF Audit
March 24th in NSF AuditsOn March 24, 2010, the Home City Ice manufacturing plant located in Louisville, Kentucky was audited by the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF). The location was Tested and Certified by NSF to the tune of a perfect score! This is the fourth perfect score for Home City Ice in the 2009-2010 audit season. In the 2008-2009 [...]
Woodridge Plant Receives Perfect NSF Audit
March 18th in NSF AuditsOn March 18, 2010, the Home City Ice manufacturing plant located in Woodridge, Illinois was audited by the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF). The location was Tested and Certified by NSF to the tune of a perfect score! This is the third perfect score for Home City Ice in the 2009-2010 audit season. In the 2008-2009 [...]
Lexington Plant Receives Perfect NSF Audit
March 17th in NSF AuditsOn March 17, 2010, the Home City Ice manufacturing plant located in Lexington, Kentucky was audited by the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF). The location was Tested and Certified by NSF to the tune of a perfect score! This is the second perfect score for Home City Ice in the 2009-2010 audit season. In the 2008-2009 [...]
Indianapolis Plant Receives Perfect NSF Audit
March 4th in NSF AuditsOn March 4, 2010, the Home City Ice manufacturing plant located at 2000 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Indianapolis, Indiana was audited by the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF). The location was Tested and Certified by NSF to the tune of a perfect score for the second consecutive year! This is the first perfect score [...]
Colts Playoffs Run Making ‘Ice’ A Hot Commodity
January 24th in ServiceINDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – One of Indiana’s coolest companies is heating up this weekend… thanks to the Colts AFC Championship game. On championship weekend restaurants and bars in Indianapolis will be packed. Amanda Adams works at the Slippery Noodle Inn. “They fill up the place so fast you can’t even move in here,” she said. Ice [...]
Miami Township man named director of entrepreneur center at Xavier
December 27th in Xavier UniversityJoseph Carter of Miami Township, Clermont County, has been named director of the Sedler Family Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Xavier University. The Williams College of Business is developing the center to help launch and sustain businesses in Greater Cincinnati and beyond. It will be named the Sedler Family Center in honor of the [...]
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145 tons
On average, each one of Home City Ice's plants can produce up to 145 tons of ice a day. That's equivalent to 15 elephants. Combine all 28 production facilities and that's 4,400 tons a DAY or about 500 elephants!
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25 miles
Almost 80% of the customers we service are within a 25 mile radius of a distribution point allowing for quick, reliable and efficient service.
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28 facilities
Home City Ice operates 28 facilities across 8 states. No one facility represents more than 5% of HCI's total capacity allowing for a reliable source of supply in case of mechanical failure, power outage or water advisories.
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66 freezers
Home City Ice stocks up on ice in 66 freezers across the region, so you don't run out of ice.
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7 days a week
Our production facilities are up and running every day of the week and even sometimes through the night. That's to make sure you get as much ice as you need when you need it.
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1000 pounds
Home City Ice can produce bags of ice as small as 3 lbs, and as large as 1000 lbs. Whoa, now that's a big bag of ice!
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725 vehicles
Home City Ice has a fleet of over 725 vehicles available to serve our customers every day of the year.
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4th of July
Going into the 4th of July Holiday, Home City Ice will have almost 20,000 pallets of finished product available for immediate distribution to our customers.
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100%
In 2008, over 400 packaged ice production facilities were inspected by NSF certified inspectors and only 11 received perfect scores of 100%. Home City Ice was awarded 8 of the 11 perfect scores.
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It Floats
Did you know that water is the only known substance where the solid state (ice) will float in the liquid state (water)?
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38x
Did you know that it takes 1 calorie of energy to reduce one gram of water one degree, but it takes 38x that amount of energy to turn one gram of water into one gram of ice?
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Carbon Footprint
Our unique production methods, the location of our distribution points, and our state of the art routing technologies allow HCI to have one of the smallest carbon footprints per unit in the packaged ice industry.
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Natural Filtration
Our unique freezing process creates ice that is more pure than the water it's made from. It's called "natural filtration".
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1924
The Sedler family started Home City Ice in 1924. Over this history, Home City Ice has successfully become the largest family owned and operated packaged ice company in the nation.
