Temax insulation, thermo blanket for the protection of perishables & pharmaceuticals in air freight, air cargo

If you send a package with perishable goods like food, chemicals or pharmaceuticals from, lets say Brussels to for example Singapore by air freight cargo, you could be surprised of the different temperatures that surround the package during its transport and storages at the different airports. In the cargo of an airplane for example, the temperature can go to -20°C. At an airport, when the package is placed on the airfield for overloading, temperatures of +50°C or even +60°C are measured in warm countries or even a -35°C in cold countries. If you then know that an overload can take several ours, the temperature of your package will experience a lot of extreme ups and downs. The question is how the quality of your goods will be influenced by these extreme conditions.

Departure sender – Airport Brussels
  A = Transport from sender to Airport (= conditioned trailers / trucks)
  B = Storrage at the forwarder (= conditioned cool chamber)
  C = Preparing the airplane pallet (= usualy not conditioned)
  D = Tarmac time = Driving the airplane pallet to the air plane + loading (= outside temperatures in Brussels)
  E = Flight Brussel - Dubai (= in this example not conditioned)

Stopover in Dubai
  F = Landing + taxi to unloading place
  G = Tarmac time = Onloading the goods (= outside temperature in Dubai)
  H = Storrage in Dubai airport (= in this example in a conditioned cool chamber)
  I  = Tarmac time = Driving the airplane pallet to the air plane + loading (= outside temperatures in Dubai)
  J = Flight Dubai – Singapore (= in this example not conditioned)

Landing in Singapore
  K = Landing + taxi to unloading place
  L = Tarmac time = Onloading the goods (= outside temperature in Singapore)
  M = Storrage in Singapore Airport (= in this example in a conditioned cool chamber)
  N = Transport from airport to customer  (= conditioned trailers / trucks)

The graphic above shows a virtual temperature flow of an air cargo shipment from sender (Brussels) to customer (Singapore). In this graphic the possible temperatures are shown in each point in which varables can occur depending on the conditions. The purpose of this graphic is to visualize the different temperatures (positive or negative) which can occur if you send goods with air freight and how the different actors as forwarders, airliners, cargo handling agents, need to be equiped to maintain or keep certain temperatures. As shown in the graphic, the temperatures can decrease or increase extremely specialy during the tarmac times in which the goods are standing outside. The question hereby is if the quality of your goods is not being influenced during these temperature fluctuantions and a conditioning (active or passive packaging ) of your goods is required.