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The system, which has not launched yet commercially, is courier agnostic so that any delivery service, grocery pharmacy, big box retailer, or friend or family member can leave deliveries in the secure, temperature controlled lock-box.

Last-Mile-Delivery System: IoT Lockbox with Temperature Control

Designed to preserve medications and food delivered to consumers and save retailers millions in contactless delivery, the product appeared on Shark Tank on April 2.

Logistics Company Unitax Uses Schaumaplast Cold Chain Packaging

Pfizer chose Softbox for their knowledge and experience in temperature control packaging solutions and the cold chain industry.

Softbox Supports Pfizer in the Global Cold Chain Distribution of COVID-19 Vaccines

Communicating acceptance criteria with your lab is key in mechanical testing of passive shippers.

Mechanical Testing for Passive Thermal Coolers: Practical Q&A for Life Sciences

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ISTA Forum Focuses on Packaging for Transport, and Temp Controlled Packaging

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Blow-Fill-Seal Expands in Aseptic Filling, Vaccines

Live from #PDAannual: Recent developments in the technology have bolstered the use of BFS in aseptic processing, including temperature control and needle addition for pre-filled syringes.

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Cold Chain Technologies With Cloudleaf: Enhanced Real-Time Visibility for End-to-End Distribution of Temperature-Sensitive Drugs and Biologics

The new offering—Cold Chain Technologies Smart Solutions—is designed to augment the company's thermal packaging solutions with Cloudleaf's Digital Visibility Platform to prevent spoilage and improve delivery efforts for critical drugs and biologics.

Pelican Biothermal Announces Latest Distributor Partnerships and Webinar Series Launch

Partnerships both accelerate global growth, providing greater reach and customer convenience, and offer insights and practical how-to presentations on cold chain-related topics.

To help with growth in its life sciences and pharmaceutical business, Tribe Transportation is expanding its use of Carrier Transicold X4TM 7500 trailer refrigeration units supported by TRU-Mount solar panels.

Tribe Builds Fleet with Solar Panel-Equipped Refrigeration Units

Solar panels maintain refrigerator unit batteries and improve driver retention.

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Part 2: COVID-19 Squeezes the Cold Supply Chain

Keren Sookne, content director at Healthcare Packaging, discusses supplier efforts to move COVID vaccine forward, its effect on the cold supply chain and its toll on workers and infrastructure.

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SkyCell: 1500F Container

To meet needs for -20°C pharma product transportation, the new container with -15°C to -25°C operating range addresses market niche and provides customers with consistency, efficiency, and ease of use.

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Part 1: Logistics in the Vaccine Rollout

Keren Sookne, content director at Healthcare Packaging, discusses vaccine logistics, ice-cream freezers, and more.

The TC489 has upper and lower limit alarms and is meant to communicate wirelessly using near field communication (NFC) via a free app, creating a comprehensive data report.

Timestrip: Electronic Indicators Launched

eTimestrip smart indicators with mobile app for report storage.

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Swift Sensors: Sub-Zero Temperature Sensor for COVID-19 Vaccine Monitoring and Storage

24/7 cloud-based wireless monitoring ensures vaccines are stored throughout the cold chain in the required sub-zero temperature ranges down to -100°C.

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Vaccine Freezers Powered Partially by Solar, Wind Power

For ultra-low temperature (ULT) storage and transportation, a new entry in the cold chain market can power freezers off the grid. In related news, ULT freezers were purchased for Puerto Rico and U.S. Embassy vaccines efforts.

PLD will assemble and apply Varcode “Smart Tags” to products onsite and inline as they roll down the assembly line.

Partnership to Build Cold Chain Monitoring into Pharma Manufacturing, Packaging, Distribution

‘Smart Tag’ technology will track and measure product safety and quality from production through delivery.

With Carrier Pods monitored by Sensitech, container refrigeration units are made to deliver temperature control within +/- 0.25 degrees Celsius and temperatures down to -40 degrees Celsius.

A&M Cold Storage Helps in COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution via Carrier Pods and Lynx Capabilities

Carrier Pods provide 24/7 remote and secure monitoring, with an integration with the Lynx digital platform.

With Carrier Pods monitored by Sensitech, container refrigeration units are meant to deliver temperature control within +/- 0.25 C and temperatures down to negative 40 C.

SeaCube Acquires Carrier Pods to Meet Global Vaccine Distribution Needs

These 200 Carrier Pods will be monitored by Sensitech to reduce risks with mobile cooling systems.

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Pelican BioThermal Launches 'School of Cool' for Customers and Distributors

New training resource meets the growing need for virtual programming and on-demand offerings for global network.

ISTA Pharma Committee Calls for Task Force Members

Experienced professionals needed for task force to develop best practice guidance in ambient temperature profiles.

Pelican BioThermal’s deep frozen products use phase change material (PCM) and dry ice systems to provide frozen payload protection meant for durations from 72 hours to 144+ hours.

Pelican BioThermal: Expanded Deep Frozen Product Range

Deep frozen options for all phases of drug discovery and distribution to meet COVID-19 vaccine shipping requirement.

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ISTA Pharma Committee: New Passive Thermal Packaging Guidance Document

ISTA releases its operational qualification (OQ) best practice guideline. Get involved: The committee needs task force members!

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Aphena Adds Cold Chain Storage, Biologics Packaging and Distribution to Its Offerings

Expansion includes 14,000 cold chain pallet spaces in new 500K-square-foot facility.

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In the News: COVID-19 Vaccine Logistics

Temperature-controlled shipping remains in the mainstream media spotlight.

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Lifoam Industries Awarded Multiple Patents for Manufacturing of a Bio-based Alternative to EPS Packaging

See Lifoam at PACK EXPO Connects!

Almost 90% of the managers polled stressed sustainability’s importance.

New Survey Reports the Sustainability Movement Has Gathered Momentum in Temperature Control Packaging

As customer demands for sustainable systems continue, the survey results show that pharmaceutical temperature control packaging providers are complying.

Niya Bowers used two examples of data collection sets to illustrate what the study results have shown on temperature control.

Chemonics Study Leads Results in Temperature-Sensitive Drug Distribution in LMICs

Drug production for LMICs requires low-cost quality manufacturing partners.