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Decatur Plant Receives Perfect NSF Audit
January 25th in NSF AuditsOn January 25, 2012, the Home City Ice manufacturing plant located in Decatur, 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 2011-2012 audit season. In the 2010-2011 [...]
Woodridge Plant Receives Perfect NSF Audit
January 24th in NSF AuditsOn January 24, 2012, the Home City Ice manufacturing plant located in Crown Point, 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 third consecutive year!! This is the second perfect score for Home City Ice in the [...]
Crown Point Plant Receives Perfect NSF Audit
January 20th in NSF AuditsOn January 20, 2012, the Home City Ice manufacturing plant located in Crown Point, 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 for Home City Ice in the [...]
Walton Hills Plant Receives Perfect NSF Audit
June 24th in NSF AuditsOn June 24, 2011, 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 fifth consecutive year!! This is the tenth perfect score for Home City Ice in the [...]
Ottawa Lake Plant Receives Perfect NSF Audit
June 24th in NSF AuditsOn June 24, 2011, 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 for the second consecutive year!! This is the ninth perfect score for Home City Ice in the [...]
Ashland Plant Earns Perfect NSF Audit
June 9th in NSF AuditsOn June 9, 2011, 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 third consecutive year!! This is the eighth perfect score for Home City Ice in the 2010-2011 [...]
Dayton Plant Earns Perfect NSF Audit
June 1st in NSF AuditsOn June 1, 2011, the Home City Ice manufacturing plant located in Dayton, Ohio 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 seventh perfect score for Home City Ice in the 2010-2011 audit season. In the 2009-2010 [...]
Louisville Plant Earns Perfect NSF Audit
May 17th in NSF AuditsOn May 17, 2011, 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 for the second consecutive year!! This is the sixth perfect score for Home City Ice in the 2010-2011 [...]
Forest Park Plant Earns Perfect NSF Audit
May 12th in NSF AuditsOn May 12, 2011, the Home City Ice manufacturing plant located in Forest Park, Ohio 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 fifth perfect score for Home City Ice in the 2010-2011 audit season. In the [...]
Woodridge Plant Receive Perfect Audit
May 6th in NSF AuditsOn May 6, 2011, 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 for the second consecutive year!! This is the fourth perfect score for Home City Ice in the 2010-2011 [...]
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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.
