Producer of thermo logistic solutions for

temperature controlled AIR - ROAD - SEA transport

Pharmaceuticals - Healthcare - Perishables - Food - Chemicals

Ambient pharmaceuticals are pharmaceuticals which have a wide range in regards to the temperature limits or temperature barriers in which they are transported or stored meaning that they can be kept in room temperatures or ambient temperatures. The most known ambient pharmaceuticals or medicines have a temperature limit of minimal 0°C to maximal +25°C or minimal +15°C to maximal +25°C. There are even pharmaceuticals which have a wider range then these limits. The temperature limits of these ambient pharmaceuticals were also not necessary meaning that if the temperature was increased above the maximal temperature limits or dropped below the minimal limits the quality of the medicine or pharmaceutical products was not harmed. This also led to the fact that the temperature of the ambient pharmaceuticals was never controlled in the supply chain.

To this not temperature controlled supply chain of the ambient pharmaceuticals is coming an end. More and more countries, more than 15 countries in 2011 are obligating a temperature controlled delivery and are monitoring the temperature at its arrival. This new guideline is spreading meaning that more countries will be following until the guideline will become a worldwide obligation. The guideline states that the temperature of the ambient pharmaceuticals needs to be monitored at least six times per hour during its transport and distribution.

Due to these new obligations the pharmaceutical industry included all the actors in the supply chain, as transport companies, distribution centers, resellers, forwarders, airline companies and sea freight companies, etc… are challenged with a new development of temperature controlling these pharmaceuticals. If a pharmaceutical product or medicine has a temperature limit of +15°C to +25°C the necessary measurements have to be taken to maintain this temperature through the total supply chain or cold chain meaning that this supply chain in changing into a temperature controlled supply chain. This is a big challenge, yet can be solved.

An effective way for creating a temperature controlled supply chain on ambient pharmaceuticals is using passive cooling techniques as thermal blankets or thermal covers. In passive cooling an insulation material is used to protect the temperature of the temperature sensitive products, as the ambient pharmaceuticals become, against external or outer temperatures. The bid advantage of passive cooling is that the product is protected from the start at the producer to the finish at the receiver. Another advantage of passive cooling as thermal blankets or thermal covers is that the actors in the supply chain do not need to invest in expensive active cooling systems so the transport costs can be kept within reasonable limits. Next, passive cooling offers flexibility in the logistics of the supply chain. This efficiency of passive cooling explains why more and more pharmaceutical companies as actors in the supply chain are implementing passive cooling systems as thermal covers and thermal blankets to create an optimal temperature preservation of the ambient pharmaceuticals.

The Temax insulation can be produced for single use or multiple use applications. The Temax insulation is already successfully in use for the transport and distribution of temperature controlled food products, pharmaceuticals and chemicals in which chilled or cooled, frozen or deep frozen, and ambient temperature products are protected from unwanted external outer temperatures. The Temax insulation is flexible, has a high insulation quality which can be produced tailor made, is water resistant and is recyclable, even partial bioligic degradable.

Krautz-Temax as the developer and producer of the Temax insulation material offers also studies on the insulation technology and quality as the logistic processes to close the cold chain or temperature controlled supply chain. We have several protocols on how pallets or boxes should be wrapped and packed in order to prevent cold bridges and result in a optimal temperature preservation and temperature protection. See also cold chain implementation plan

The Temax insulation material is already in use at some of the biggest pharmaceutical companies, food and chemical companies, freight forwarders and transport companies, airliners and shippers etc... This in road transport, air cargo and sea freight as single use or multiple use applications.