The carbon freezing unit is a staple on tibannagas mining platforms and provides a means for relatively volatile tibannagas to be stabilised for transport across the galaxy. This process involves tibannagas being pumped into the freezing unit, where it is mixed with liquid carbonite to form solid blocks. Carbon freezing units on mining platforms typically resembles a pit approximately three metres deep and two metres across, with a frame in the centre to hold a carbonite block. When the unit is activated, concentrated tibannagas is pumped into the carbonite block and liquid carbonite is forced into the chamber under pressure. The carbonite almost instantly solidifies, trapping the volatile tibannagas molecules in an inert matrix, preventing their decay while simultaneously ensuring that any spontaneous chain reactions are avoided.

The ability of carbonite to preserve organic life was discovered accidentally as a result of, as may be expected, an industrial accident in which an unlucky mine worker fell into a carbon freezing that was in operation and was subsequently flash frozen and later successfully restored to life. Bounty hunters in particular have been quick to take advantage of this, and many bounty hunter ships are equipped with small carbon freezing units, which are typically much smaller than the ones found on mining platforms, but no less effective. Carbon freezing enables the frozen prisoners to be transported with a minimum of space required and no dietary needs at all. There is a risk that the prisoner might die during the freezing process, so this treatment is usually used when the bounty for delivering a dead target is the same or only slightly less than the reward for bringing them in alive.