UPS Temperature True expands with new packages, services
November 26, 2015
As UPS continues to expand its UPS Temperature True Packaging service, the company is launching four new off-the-shelf, cold-chain packaging lines available exclusively to UPS customers. The packages have been engineered, tested, and prequalified for use in UPS’s U.S. domestic network. The new options are part of an ever-expanding set of solutions and services intended to control temperature for healthcare products along the supply chain.
“UPS has been present in the cold chain for many years, and we have found two things,” Wanis Kabbaj, director, global healthcare strategy at UPS, tells PMP News. “There’s high interest in our temperature profiles, so we invested to learn more about our network and used that knowledge to help engineer cold-chain packaging. In addition, a large portion of the market sees the process of engineering cold-chain packaging as constraining, and often don’t have the resources in-house to do so. So we developed prequalified solutions.”
Kabbaj says that UPS began its development process about a year ago and has since been “working with vendors to define the range and develop the packaging most suitable to meet customers’ needs.”
The new range includes the following packaging models:
• Med 100: A lightweight shipper for single-dose and smaller-size medicines requiring cool temperatures in transit.
• Med 200: A two-day delivery shipper designed for easy and efficient assembly.
• Med 300: A refrigerated shipper with a self-contained cooler that can be stored at room temperature, requiring no additional refrigerants.