Entropy Solutions Expands
Globally Through Partnership with
SCA Cool Logistics
GREENBOX now available in Europe, Australia,
New Zealand
and Singapore
MINNEAPOLIS — May 27, 2008 — Entropy
Solutions, Inc., a thermal technology development company, today announced an
exclusive distribution partnership with SCA Cool Logistics, a United
Kingdom-based company that specializes in temperature-controlled packaging.
Through this partnership, SCA Cool Logistics will now manufacture and
distribute the GREENBOXTM Thermal Management System, as well as
other Entropy Solutions products. Previously available in North America alone,
GREENBOX will now reach customers throughout Europe, Australia, New Zealand and
Singapore.
“Reaching customers
worldwide is crucial to our company’s mission,” said Eric Lindquist, president
of Entropy Solutions. “SCA Cool Logistics is the European market leader in
temperature-controlled packaging, and together we can provide our global
customers with the highest quality, most effective thermal packaging
solutions.”
SCA Cool Logistics is
a wholly owned subsidiary of SCA Packaging, a global packaging company with €3.5 billion ($5.4
billion) in revenue, whose customers include the top 20 pharmaceutical
companies in the world.
“SCA Cool Logistics
has a long-standing reputation of providing the most innovative thermal
shipping solutions,” said Kevin Valentine, managing director. “That’s why we
are proud to partner with Entropy Solutions to offer GREENBOX to our customers.
During extensive testing the GREENBOX provided excellent thermal performance.
By combining innovative phase change technology in an environment-friendly
design, GREENBOX is the perfect fit to meeting our customers'
temperature-sensitive packaging needs, whether they're shipping across town or
across continents.”
GREENBOX is a
recently introduced temperature-controlled shipper capable of keeping its
contents at a consistent temperature (for example, +2°C to +8°C
or +20°C
to +25°C)
for more than five days. Designed to transport pharmaceuticals, biologics and
blood supplies, it virtually eliminates product spoilage. In addition, because
GREENBOX maintains product temperature for more than five days, customers can
ship via ground transport versus overnight express, typically resulting in
significant cost savings – many customers realize up to 65 percent savings. The
robust and resilient nature of the GREENBOX means that it is a fully reusable
thermal shipper. The innovative
materials used are also completely recyclable, this coupled with the high
insulating capacity makes it the sustainable and effective choice for shipping
temperature sensitive products.
For
more information, please visit www.entropysolutionsinc.com,
www.sca-cool-logistics.com, or
call 1-877-4GRNBOX.
About Entropy Solutions, Inc.
Entropy
Solutions, Inc. is a thermal technology development company with its global
offices based in Minneapolis, Minn. The company’s mission is to provide
innovative, cost-effective, temperature-controlled solutions for the transport
and distribution of temperature-sensitive products throughout the world.
Entropy Solutions’ GREENBOXTM technology is an innovative and
next-generation passive thermal breakthrough in cost-effective, highly
efficient shipping containers. Using patented phase-change technology, the
system is capable of maintaining narrow temperature ranges for record durations.
The company’s primary focus is the life science industry, where the ability to
maintain global regulators mandated temperatures during the transport and
delivery of temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals, biologics and blood products
are crucial to saving lives and advancing medical discoveries.
About SCA Cool
Logistics
Forming
part of the SCA Packaging Group, SCA
Cool Logistics is focused on designing, testing and qualifying
temperature-controlled packaging solutions to meet all customer requirements.
Based in the United Kingdom, the company manufactures products worldwide,
enabling SCA Cool Logistics to offer a swift supply response to all our
customers.
SCA Cool
Logistics works predominantly on solutions for the pharmaceutical, clinical
trials and distribution industries, handling the needs of a wide range of
customers, from small biotech companies to multi-national pharmaceutical
corporations. The heart of our business
is design and we have the largest test facility in Europe with 23 environmental
test chambers from which temperature-controlled packaging can be developed and
qualified.
At SCA Cool
Logistics our ethos is “Striving to be a pleasure to do business with” and this
means that a flexible approach to design, customer service and supply is
required, coupled with a strong understanding of the differing levels of
regulatory restriction and supply chain complexity.
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