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Every day, major pharmaceutical companies transport pallets of temperature-sensitive raw materials and finished goods across the Atlantic and around the world. The dilemma: How to do this with an economical, reliable shipping container system that' s independent of a power source and renewable refrigerants. This consulting challenge has been met by va-Q-tainer, an innovative passive transport and cold chain storage container that's durable and reusable. The va-Q-tainer has been pre-qualified at 2°C to 8°C for up to nine days under both summer and winter conditions with a year-round universal packout.

Using fail-safe principles of physics, vac-Q-tainer was developed in response to appeals by major pharmaceutical companies. The va-Q-tainer with phase change refrigerants is filling a gap in demand for long term shipments and temporary storage of U.S. and European pallets. As an added benefit, Cold Chain Laboratories is available to conduct full qualification tests of the va-Q-tainer on specific payloads.

The va-Q-tainer combines high performance materials for insulation and energy storage in a unique configuration. The result is an extremely reliable uninterrupted cold chain that protects payloads from deviations in temperature, physical damage, and tampering. At the same time, it substantially reduces labor-intensive handling and consumption of non-reusable packaging materials.

According to a representative from a major pharmaceutical company, "We have shipped almost a million vials from Europe to the U.S. in the va-Q-tainer. The results are just great: no deviations of temperature and enormous cost savings per vial compared to other systems. We've saved a substantial amount per container by switching to the va-Q-tainer. It's far superior to anything else on the market."

Va-Q-tainer is ideal when the journey is long, the temperatures are extreme, and the payload is valuable.