It’s happened before, and it’s likely to happen again: a catastrophic failure in a liquid-nitrogen (LN2) storage tank, holding biological materials that are essentially irreplaceable. The odd coincidence of the event happening twice within a week, at two different in-vitro […]
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Almac Group, which handles contract manufacturing from clinical to commercial scale, has opened a 95,000-sq. ft. facility in Craigavon, its Northern Ireland headquarters. The facility represents the equivalent of 3,000-pallet capacity. Components include -15°C to -25°C storage, additional 2°C – […]
Read MoreSince 2006, the Pharmaceutical Cargo Security Coalition (PCSC) has been operated as an all-volunteer group of industry security and supply-chain consultants, led by Chuck Forsaith, a former Purdue Pharma executive and widely recognized industry consultant. Last fall, PCSC became a […]
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For several years now, the availability of high-volume air-cargo containers has been limited to Envirotainer and DoKaSch, with the former’s RAP e2 unit and the latter’s OptiCooler, which can carry 4-5 pallets in wide-belly aircraft. Now, they are getting competition […]
Read MoreHoping to capture a dominant position in the new wave of cellular and genetic therapies, which often require cryogenic shipping conditions, World Courier and Savsu have announced a partnering agreement. World Courier, a unit of AmerisourceBergen, has a long track […]
Read MoreSoftbox has acquired the developer of the Silverskin brand of reflective and/or insulating blankets, used for pallet protection and other steps in the transportation of temperature-sensitive healthcare products. Both companies have an international presence, with Softbox having locations in England, […]
Read MoreThere were 57 new drug approvals (including one vaccine) issued by FDA in 2017—more than double the total in 2016, and representing a high not seen since the mid-2000s.* Pharmaceutical Commerce has gone through the official labels (package inserts) for […]
Read MoreFor over a year, Alan Kennedy, an industry consultant, has been promoting an effort called Team-Up, specifically to foster collaboration among vendors and service providers involved in pharma logistics. Now, he is about to announce one of its first such […]
Read MoreWorld Courier, the AmerisourceBergen express logistics unit that mostly handles clinical trial logistics, has announced that it has garnered Good Distribution Practice (GDP) certification across its global network of 140-plus offices (including 14 depots) in more than 50 countries. Both […]
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It is well known that specialty pharmaceuticals are the growth arm of the pharma market, and this inevitably increases business for specialty distributors (which includes many of the full-line distributors of all pharma products, as well as some businesses dedicated […]
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