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.
Cold Chain 101
By Brian Kohr, President COO
As I travel around the world and visit with people from different industries (non life sciences), I’m continually amazed by the general lack of understanding of truly what the cold chain is and how important it is to almost everyone’s life. People seem to understand the importance of keeping various products within certain temperature ranges, easy to create the analogy to keeping milk in the refrigerator. The gap seems to be understanding that many pharmaceutical products have much more restrictive requirements and if the cold chain is broken, the negative impact is much greater than sour milk.
Once I walk through and explain the importance of the cold chain and the then subsequent potential impact to the efficacy of the product if it is compromised, the light bulb seems to come on and the questions start to flow. Questions such as - How are companies ensuring that products arrive safely? What is the FDA doing in this area when their focus seems to be in other, but just as important, areas? Why do companies continue to use packaging that is suspect or that they don’t know if it works all of the time?
This is a very interesting industry that we provide solutions to. The need has been around for a long time but the importance of the need has only started to be known in the past few decades. The good news is that the awareness and needed solutions are now starting to catch up. Education has been and will continue to be the key.
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.