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Cost Savings and Added Adaptability When Converting from Next-day Air to 2nd Day Parcel Shipments

Temperature-sensitive medications and perishable products have specific requirements for temperature control during shipping. Certain pharmaceuticals lose their effectiveness with as little as two degrees of temperature variation. Fresh foods like...

Is your thermal packaging really green?

Cold Chain Applications

Packaging may be recyclable, reusable or composed of renewable materials, but still not be a fully “green” solution. To determine the actual environmental impact of a packaging component, the full life span needs to be evaluated. The components and...

Recycling is no longer the answer to cleaning up our world

Cold Chain Applications

Only 34% of American households recycle, and many of those don’t recycle all that they could. It’s sobering to realize that 91% of plastics have never been recycled, and our ability to recycle paper is shrinking dramatically. There’s an obvious need...

The High Canadian Arctic – The World’s Most Challenging Cold Chain

Cold Chain Applications

Melissa in Grise Fiord, Nunavut, Canada at 3:00 PM in -68°F weather We took the farm to fork cold chain distribution process to a whole new level when we went to Watsonville, CA to visit a strawberry farm to analyze and improve the harvest and precooling process. As...