The SensiWatch Platform employs IoT data-collection instruments and data-management tools, the better to provide an end-to-end visibility of shipments, including both geo- and condition (temperature, humidity and light) tracking. Internally, SensiWatch uses cloud-based storage (building on its earlier ColdStream data-tracking […]
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Applying Internet of Things (IoT) principles to the life-sciences supply chain is a no-brainer: high-value products going through many hands from point of origin to point of dispensing call for careful monitoring. Yet IoT applications have been slow in coming. […]
Read MoreFollowing a round of expansions announced in 2019 totaling 1 million sq. ft. UPS Healthcare Logistics is now adding an additional 1.3 million sq. ft. The most prominent elements are a new facility in Shanghai, expansions in California facilities, and […]
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Typically, pharma cold-chain shipments via active (powered) containers are tracked from when the container is loaded, to where the container is taken off an aircraft; many containers never leave an airport. Now, however, CSafe is enabling its container to move […]
Read MoreIt’s not every day that the relatively obscure topic of cold chain management of pharmaceutical specimens would make the New York Times … but May 17 was one. The newspaper ran a detailed story on how a La Jolla, CA […]
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The trickle of all-recyclable, bio-based packaging for pharmaceutical cold-chain shipments is starting to turn into a steady flow. The latest to join is Softbox, which introduced its TempCell ECO in January in Europe, and now in the US. Rather than […]
Read MoreIn the steadily growing field of cold chain services to biopharma, three recent actions are worth noting: DuPont, owners of the Tyvek brand of nonwoven, polymeric sheeting, are handing off the Tyvek Cargo Covers to Cold Chain Technologies, Inc., under […]
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The 11th edition of the Biopharma Cold Chain Sourcebook has been published by Pharmaceutical Commerce. The annual edition forecasts an overall market for cold chain services (packaging, transportation and data services) of $17.2 billion in 2020, up from 2019’s $15.7 […]
Read MoreMany pharma shipments—especially those requiring time-sensitive, temperature-controlled shipping, use air cargo, both domestically and internationally. And while the global air-cargo business has mostly been operating in a customary fashion (except for restrictions on airport receiving offices and some locations, in […]
Read MoreTwo coincidental announcements bring some name changes to the cold chain services field: TCP Reliable, a longtime provider of insulated packages and services for temperature-controlled shipments, is now Integreon Global. Meanwhile, at CSafe Global, the provider of powered, temperature-controlled air-freight […]
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