Pharma Toolbox: ensuring vaccine integrity every step of the way

The cold chain is facing unparalleled challenges during the ongoing health crisis. Luckily, our Thermo King experts are taking the stage and sharing their insights during several industry events: our president, Francesco Incalza, delivered a keynote speech during Makers & Movers, and many other in-house experts joined discussion panels during Intermodal Connect, SCC-GIRP, Zero Gradi, … the list goes on and on.

Here’s a short overview of the biggest challenges that our experts are trying to solve.

Scalability of vaccine transport

The global COVID-19 vaccination will reach unparalleled proportion with billions of vaccines being distributed.

And to put that in perspective, it’s always useful to keep the historical global performance of our industry in mind:

• It’s estimated that 25% of all vaccines are degraded by the time they reach their destination
• The WHO believes over 50% of vaccines may be wasted globally every year because of temperature control and shipment-related issues
• Nearly 3 billion of the world’s 7.8 billion people live where temperature-controlled storage is insufficient for an effective immunization campaign

So clearly, the unprecedented scale of the Covid-19 vaccine roll out is going to take innovative thinking to avoid these historical hurdles and maintain a regular distribution.

Delivering end-to-end coverage

The ultimate goal for Thermo King is to deliver confidence. To assure the transport refrigeration and storage capacity exists for all vaccines and all communities: from busy urban areas to hard-to-reach rural areas, throughout the long haul and across the last mile.

• Air – where our fully electric, GDP-certified containers, created in partnership with Environtainer, offer temperature coverage of 0°C to +25°C
• Ocean – Thermo King’s Magnum^® Plus and SuperFreezer large volume, ISO refrigerated intermodal containers offer tight temperature controls from +30°C to -70°C
• Road – our GDP-certified technologies are designed for every size truck and trailer, including the Advancer unit for long haul and urban distribution, with temperature ranges spanning +30°C to -30°C
• Last mile – our vehicle-powered B and E Series, alongside mobile Cold Cube containers, enable whisper quiet and full electric refrigeration at temperatures ranging from +30°C to -30°C
• Cold storage solutions – provides temporary, mobile, ultra-low temperature control at all your key storage points, with container-based technology that cools down to -70°C

Pharma Toolbox: ensuring vaccine integrity every step of the way

Ensuring precise temperature control during transport is central to the vaccine strategies being coordinated across Europe. It’s a task that’s set to test many logistical operations, while also impacting the focus of future technology investments.

Our solution? Thermo King PharmaSolutions. Designed to keep all the vaccines at the right temperature during transport. It’s our part to contribute to a safe and high-quality cold chain. Visit the Thermo King PharmaSolutions page for additional information.

To promote our Thermo King PharmaSolutions, we’ve upgraded our Pharma Toolbox with additional marketing material. And in the future, we’ll continue to update it regularly.

So visit our Pharma Toolbox and make sure that our units will play an important role in keeping the vaccines at the highest quality.