Pharmaceutical companies are under relentless pressure to reduce pharmaceutical shipping costs and ensure their products are handled properly throughout the cold chain. To meet the industry’s stringent requirements, AcuTemp develops insulated shipping containers that provide the Peace of Mind™ of uncompromised hold time performance while offering a low total cost of ownership.
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Regulation and Testing Help to Stabilize Cold Chain
By Rick Lenhard
Lead Engineer, Passive Systems
AcuTemp Thermal Systems
A successful cold chain industry depends upon temperatures within an insulated shipping container remaining stable throughout the entire storage and transportation process. Temperature assurance within the cold chain distribution cycle is especially critical when it comes to products such as blood, plasma, pharmaceuticals and vaccines.
Less Dry Ice Means Lower Shipping Costs for AcuTemp Customers
By Dave Meyl
Vice President Packaging
AcuTemp Thermal Systems
The cold chain packaging industry has long relied on dry ice to ship temperature-sensitive materials. Dry ice expenses can take a heavy toll on a cold chain shipping firm's overhead costs, however.
Cold Chain Industry Adjusting to Demands of Growing Markets
By Brian Kohr
President and CEO
The process of effectively transporting temperature-sensitive items such as pharmaceuticals and biologics is a multifaceted endeavor, necessitating stable, reliable packaging capable of maintaining required temperatures for the duration of a journey, as well as coordinated communications between all parties along the cold chain transportation route.
Well-Managed Cold Chain Limits Wasted Vaccines
By Paul C. Kovarovic, Vice President Business Development
People all over the world rely on the protection that vaccines provide from diseases such as mumps, measles, polio and the flu. When vaccinated, we assume the product injected into our bodies is safe, effective and has been well-preserved during its storage and transportation. But this is not always the case.
Pharma/Biotechnology
Medical Device
AcuTemp’s ability to adapt to unusual insulated packaging requirements affords our medical device customers with the benefit of having fully customized insulated shipping containers. Not only do medical devices come in all shapes and sizes, they also have very specific thermal management requirements and may require very specific protective packaging strategies.
Public Health
With a reputation of superior hold time performance, AcuTemp insulated shippers, carrying cases, and mobile refrigerator/freezer units are entrusted to maintain exacting temperature ranges in the transport of vaccines, drugs, specimens and other bio-medical materials. Some of the world’s largest organizations rely on AcuTemp insulated containers to provide precise temperature control and superior hold time performance throughout the cold chain distribution cycle.
Military Medical
AcuTemp’s mobile refrigerated units are designed with specific military applications in mind. When it comes to providing reliable thermal management in the delivery of blood, plasma and medicines in the harshest of conditions, even on the field of battle, AcuTemp delivers. Designed in accordance with the military’s strict standards (such as MIL-STD 810F), our actively powered insulated containers provide the superior hold time performance necessary for the potentially life-saving applications in which they are used.
Transportation Logistics
Designed to meet the most stringent air cargo shipping protocols, AcuTemp’s versatile cold chain solutions enable freight forwarders, airlines, 3PLs and logistics providers to ship temperature critical materials around the world with greater assurance than with any other thermal management provider.
