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Ensuring Shipper Performance

Pharmaceutical and Medical Packaging News, November 2009

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"As manufacturers of pharmaceuticals and biologics focus on ensuring quality in temperature-sensitive shipments, they are investigating prospects for containing the costs of distribution and packaging ..."

The Latest in Shipping Materials and Containers

Pharmaceutical and Medical Packaging News, June 2007

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"A provider of thermal packaging solutions offers a prequalified universal shipper designed to maintain 2° - 8°C temperatures for up to five days (120 hours). The KoolTemp GTS-120 features a 14-cu-in. payload. It is designed for long-term domestic or international shipments of temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical, biotech, and healthcare products as well as of medical devices ..."

Options in Cold-Chain Shipping
Active and Passive Systems for the Transport of Temperature-sensitive Cargo Each Have Their Advantages

Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News, February 2006

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"…Cold Chain Technologies offers the va-Q-tainer, a prequalified, universal shipper system that holds 2° to 8°C for up to four days. Available in two sizes for U.S. and European pallets, the passive system combines rigid multilayer outer walls with high-performance vacuum-insulation panels lined with form-fitting phase-change materials.

Most of our customers ship to Europe and back, which is well within our time frame,' says (Cold Chain Technologies)..."

Pallet-sized Transport Container

Healthcare Packaging, November 2005

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"va-Q-tainer holds 40x40-in. and 48x48-in. loads provides uniform thermal protection for pharmaceutical shipments prequalified 2° C to 8° C for 96 hours in summer and winter conditions."

Prequalified Shippers En Route for Clinical Trials

Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News, September 2005

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"Cold Chain Technologies (Holliston, MA) showed its KoolTemp GTS (global transport system), which launched in February 2005. Also maintaining 2°-8°C for 48 hours, this 36-lb shipper holds contents up to 8.75 in. cubed. While it is the firm's third prequalified shipper, it is its first universal all-season shipper.

'Customers don't have to be concerned about what time of year it is and how to pack it out,' says … Cold Chain Technologies. Also, 'our customers have asked us to make other sizes.

Now that we have defined the thermodynamic science, we know how to scale it to other sizes and longer times ..."

Scaling Up Controlled-Temperature Shippers: Pallet-sized insulated shippers, ranging from passive systems to active systems with sophisticated monitors, protect and deliver big pharma's-and little pharma's-big payloads.

Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News, October 2004

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"Many pharmaceutical manufacturers in the United States now ship active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) in bulk to other countries where subsidiaries may complete the form and fill, then ship the finished product back to the United States for distribution….

Cold Chain Technologies Inc. (Holliston, MA) employs a similar approach to avoiding migration of cold packs in its KoolGuard insulated pallet shippers. Corrugated sleeves, which hold Koolit refrigerant bricks in place, line the inside of the shipper. Cold Chain Technologies offers three sizes of KoolGuard pallet shippers, ranging from 23 cu ft to a 45-cu-ft unit introduced in 2003.

… Cold Chain Technologies Inc., says the largest-the 4500-can be used as a stand-alone but was designed specifically to fit inside the LD3-size RKN container …"

Shipping Temperature-Sensitive Products: Valuable temperature-sensitive goods can be ruined by inadequate thermal packaging and the inevitable delays in the logistics chain.

Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News, February 2002

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"Dry ice remains the favorite for holding frozen temperatures."It's readily available, it's well understood, it's cheaper, and it keeps product cold longer, pound for pound, than phase-change materials," says Lawrence Gordon, president of FDC Packaging Inc. (Medfield, MA) (now Cold Chain Technologies, Holliston, MA). Phase-change materials (PCMs) in the form of bricks or gel packs, however, offer advantages over dry ice for some uses. Bricks hold their shape to keep contents from shifting, as will happen when dry ice sublimates. Airlines limit the amount of dry ice a shipment may contain, and some products cannot tolerate the exposure to CO2 that occurs when dry ice sublimates …"

Temperature and Moisture Control

Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News, February 2003

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"…Cold Chain Laboratories' (Holliston, MA) insulated shipping containers, called Cold Chain Solutions, are now available in popular off-the-shelf sizes. …(Cold Chain) reports that the containers, made of either expanded or molded polystyrene or molded polyurethane, are available in three temperature controls of 2°-8°, 2°-15°, and 2°-25°C. The firm recently moved to expand its testing chambers to nine to help users qualify packaging."

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