Sponsors & Exhibitors
Alternatives Technologie Pharma Inc
Website: www.alternatives-tech.com
Alternatives Technologie Pharma Inc. (“ATP”) is a privately-hold Laval-based company that specializes in Cold Chain Control and Management solutions for the Life Sciences and Health sectors. Our mission is to offer efficient and user-friendly solutions to ensure the integrity of highly-sensitive products by regulatory compliance services, Environmental monitoring solutions, track and trace solutions, packaging design and validation/qualification for highly-regulated industrial sectors such as the Life Sciences, Food and Transportation/Logistics industries. Our activities are integrated into four major axes: Regulatory compliance, Environmental monitoring, Design and Test of Cold Chain Packaging, and Cold Chain Packaging Supplies.
Kuehne + Nagel
Website: www.kn-portal.com
Kuehne + Nagel is a world leader in providing integrated logistics services for manufacturers of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices and other healthcare products. Our services and solutions are designed to meet the exacting operational requirements of this regulated environment (GxP). We do significant business with some of the world’s leading pharmaceutical/healthcare companies, as well as other select customers in the pharmaceutical, medical equipment, animal drugs, personal care and infant formula categories. Kuehne + Nagel has developed a wide range of supply chain and information management services to optimally manage healthcare firms' complex global procurement and supply chain processes. We will assess current customer supply chain processes against standard and industry benchmarks to identify areas for improvement. Using advanced analysis and modeling tools, alternate models are evaluated against identified cost and service objectives to arrive at the optimal solution.
Kuehne + Nagel provides visibility and control over inventory flows. KN Login enables proactive management of your supply chain through improved end-to-end visibility and dynamic, intelligent exception alerting.
FedEx Custom Critical
Website: customcritical.fedex.com/coldchain
FedEx Custom Critical offers a complete array of surface and air solutions to safely and securely ship temperature-sensitive products. You can choose from exclusive-use vehicles with temperature controlled cargo boxes to airfreight solutions utilizing temperature-controlled
air containers. With our Temp-Assure Validated services, you also receive hard-copy documentation of the temperature inside the vehicle or container throughout transport. This assists our pharmaceutical customers with their compliance needs through a documented audit trail of their products’ temperature throughout the shipping process. FedEx Custom Critical services are available 24/7/365 with surface solutions throughout the U.S. and Canada and air solutions across the globe.
Minnesota Thermal Science, LLC
Website: www.goldenhourtechnology.com
Minnesota Thermal Science, LLC develops unique storage and shipping systems that address the challenges of maintaining constant and predictable temperatures when transporting temperature sensitive medical materials. Founded in 2004 following an industry wide search by the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research for a more effective combat environment container, MTS has continued to apply its technology to handle other important medical materials including all types of biomaterials and pharmaceuticals that require controlled temperatures Its patent pending Golden Hour® Technology, winner of a "U.S. Army Greatest Inventions" award, is credited with saving soldier's lives on the battlefield and with revolutionizing the methods used for distributing temperature sensitive medical supplies.
TempTime Corporation
Website: www.temptimecorp.com
Temptime’s TransTracker is a monitoring device containing scientifically proven time-temperature indicator technology. TransTracker products identify exposure to freezing, high heat and cumulative heat exposure during shipping and short-term storage. TransTracker is easy to read, accurate and can deliver cost savings of over 50%. Temptime is the world leader in time-temperature indicator technology. Temptime operates under a quality system certified to ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 13485 standards and is compliant with medical device Good Manufacturing Practices. For more information contact Chris Caulfield at 973-984-6012.
Air Canada Cargo
Website: http://www.aircanada.com/cargo/en/services/ac_cool.html
Air Canada Cargo is the key link in your unbroken cool chain. As the first North American carrier to receive regulatory approval to carry the RKN e1 Envirotainer®, you can trust us to get your temperature-sensitive shipments to their destinations quickly and reliably.
World Courier of Canada Ltd.
Website: www.worldcourier.com
World Courier has set the benchmark for worldwide time & temperature sensitive transportation. We remain the only specialist courier company with its own global company network .Each office ISO 9001 certified with the same operating standards dedicated to treating every shipment on an individual, priority basis. World Courier is utilized in approximately 80% of the world’s clinical trials requiring the use of a specialty courier. With experience in managing the logistics of over 7,500 clinical trials worldwide, we are the acknowledged experts in handling temperature-sensitive specimen and drug shipments.
LifeConEx
Website: www.lifeconex.com
LifeConEx is a joint venture between DHL Global Forwarding, the world's largest air and ocean freight forwarder, part of Deutsche Post World Net, and Lufthansa Cargo, the leading airfreight cargo company on the international market. LifeConEx is the only industry-specific provider of integrated end-to-end temperature controlled transportation solutions for the life sciences industry ensuring that highly sensitive products are delivered at the right place, at the right time, and in the right condition. A global provider of end-to-end qualified transportation services worldwide, designed to protect the integrity and quality of the products posting fewer delays, less cycle time, less temperature deviations, less damage, and far fewer claims than typically experienced by shippers. LifeConEx offers regulatory compliant process mapping, customized quality agreements, comprehensive 24/7 process and quality control, and technical consulting. Strategically LifeConEx looks to integrate new practices and more efficient ways of managing temperature-sensitive products, by providing overall value in regard to time and productivity. LifeConEx boosts various temperature controlled supply chains with greater control, reduction of risk, and elevation of ROI.
Envirotainer
Website: www.envirotainer.com
Pioneer and market leader Envirotainer offers flexible leasing (rental) of advanced transport solutions for worldwide air cargo shipments of temperature-sensitive products. Customers within the healthcare, life sciences, food and high-tech industries benefit from the combination of advanced container technology, extensive cold chain management services and a global network of service partners, airlines and forwarders - providing a unique one-way leasing service. Envirotainer secures the safety and integrity of product cold chains by providing an active temperature-control system, training all parties along the cold chain and supporting customers in transport validations and risk management.
Marken
Website: www.marken.com
Marken is one of the leading suppliers of cold-chain logistics for clinical supplies worldwide. Temperature-control during the handling, storage and distribution of cold-chain products is a
critical element of the clinical trial process. Our expertise is of critical importance to ensuring the safe arrival of high value shipments to sites. We provide:
- Global distribution of temperature controlled trial medication, vaccines & CTM
- Temperature control monitoring for ambient, 2-8C and frozen products to maintain integrity of supplies
- Advice on packaging materials and provision of containers for global transportation
- Refrigerated trucking services
- Customs brokerage accelerating clearance
Sensitech
Website: www.sensitech.com
Sensitech - The leading provider of cold chain visibility solutions that enable our customers to track and monitor assets across the supply chain, protecting the quality, efficacy, and integrity of their temperature-sensitive products. Our product portfolio includes comprehensive analytic services, enterprise software systems and validated data acquisition devices. We address our customers’ most complex perishable cold chain problems and deliver powerful insights that drive measurable process improvement. Sensitech supports cold chain monitoring programs in 18 of the top 20 multi-national pharmaceutical companies and 9 of the top 10 biopharmaceutical companies. Sensitech is a business unit of Carrier Corp.
Skelton Truck Lines
Website: www.skeltontruck.com
Skelton has provided refrigerated services for 28 years to Pharmaceutical/Biological companies. We partner with customers to ensure we maintain product integrity through out the cold chain link. Our Critical Care Division validated trailers are devoted for products that require 2°C to 8°C with double reefers units to ensure the safety of the products. Our investment in assets, people and training have provided our customers with a Tried, Tested and Proven solution that meets and exceeds Health Canada 0069 regulations.
Cryopak
Website: www.cryopak.com
Cryopak (a TCP Reliable Company), specializes in the field of temperature controlled packaging and services including package design, qualification, testing manufacturing insulated shippers, refrigerants, phase change materials and temperature monitors. All services are provided in strict conformance with ISO 9001:2000, ISTA and ASTM test methodology, and FDA good manufacturing practices. TCP maintains facilities in Quebec, British Columbia, New Jersey and France.
American Thermal Instruments, Inc.
Website: www.americanthermal.com
Founded in 1981, American Thermal Instruments, Inc. has been exceeding customer expectations as an international organization specializing in temperature monitoring solutions. ATI temperature monitoring solutions include liquid crystal thermometers, irreversible temperature indicators, color changing products, Log-ic® electronic content monitoring, and microencapsulation services. Our facility is ISO 9001 certified, FDA registered, and operates under cGMP. ATI manufactures non toxic, nonbreakable, reusable, disposable and easy-to-read thermometers for diverse markets and applications. ATI acts as a distribution arm for the Log-ic® Temperature Tracking System. The Log-ic® system is revolutionizing the Cold Chain, giving customers the capability to track and trace temperature history of shipments.
ATS Healthcare Solutions
Website: www.ats.ca
ATS Healthcare Solutions offers a broad range of transportation services including temperature management offerings specifically designed to meet the requirements of
Health Canada guideline 0069. ATS is focused on providing solutions within Canada for the healthcare industry and as such operates a network of branches coast to coast and a
fleet of temperature controlled vehicles.
Cavalier Logistics
Website: www.cavlog.com
Cavalier Logistics is dedicated to providing “Turn-Key Cold Chain Solutions” for business in the Life and Analytical Sciences, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Diagnostic Kit Manufacturing, Vaccine and Healthcare Providers. In addition, we provide service government agencies that are responsible for the stockpiling and rapid deployment of pharmaceutical products for disaster and pandemic relief. We offer a unique service to healthcare providers because we can provide one-stop 3PL logistical services from the point of manufacture, in Cavalier validated refrigerated equipment. We also have validated 5°-C, -10°-C to -40°- C, -80°-C and -156°-C storage at our Washington D.C. Headquarters. Our Washington Headquarters is licensed by the United States Drug Enforcement Agency and the Commonwealth of Virginia Board of Pharmacy to house and distribute schedule 2-6 pharmaceutical products. We provide seamless third party logistical services for high value vaccines, clinical trial samples, specimens, reagents and a multitude of products that require expert handling.
American Aerogel Corporation
Website: www.americanaerogel.com
Headquartered in Rochester, New York, American Aerogel Corporation has been developing cost-effective methods to produce aerogels and aerogel-like materials since 1995. Our patented product - Aerocore™ - represents an advanced nanoporous open-celled foam material that’s ideal for temperature-sensitive shipping applications. Aerocore’s superior R-50 insulation provides dramatically higher levels of performance for shipping valuable temperature-sensitive products. Aerocore allows our customers, typically biomedical and pharmaceutical companies, to ship more payloads with less coolant, in smaller containers, over a longer period of time. In fact, our customers have shipped thousands of products in Aerocore containers with no product loss due to temperature variations!
GE Sensing
Website: www.gesensing.com/kayeproducts
The Validation software and hardware platforms you have trusted for years continue to expand. The Kaye product line offers you more value and security with your bottom line in mind. Safe time and money using Kaye wired and wireless thermal validation systems; wireless process validation and monitoring, centralized facility monitoring, alarming and reporting systems. The flexible and scalable architecture of LabWatchTM Pro brings the robustness and reliability of Kaye LabWatchTM to cold chain storage applications where high accuracy and dependability is critical but the amount and requirements of the assets can change. Our application engineers take responsibility for your entire project; the base of success of LabWatchTM system extends far beyond hardware and software installation.
GREENBOX
Website: www.greenboxsystems.com
Entropy Solutions is the industry’s innovation leader in thermal technology. With the introduction of the GREENBOX Thermal Management system, Entropy has once again revolutionized how thermally sensitive products are shipped and maintained. Our 100% organic, sustainable, passive thermal solution can maintain precise target temperatures for unprecedented periods of time. Through a unique combination of technology and design, GREENBOX™ delivers the industries most effective and cost efficient shipping method on the market today.
MAYA Simulation Technologies Ltd.
Website: www.mayahtt.com
MAYA Simulation Technologies Ltd. is a developer of thermal and flow simulation software tools. MAYA's simulation solutions provide comprehensive and accurate insight into the thermal behavior of a wide range of cold chain transport systems reducing the need for
prototype testing. MAYA offers a complete software simulation solution for the thermal
design and optimization of cold chain transport systems. MAYA's thermal simulation solution can model all aspects of heat transfer including conduction, convection and radiation. The thermal and flow solvers are fully capable of modeling steady state as well as transient thermal/flow conditions. Additionally we incorporate advanced tools such as phase change materials, condensation/humidity calculations, dust/smoke distribution tracking etc.
UTi Pharma
Website: www.utipharma.com
UTi Pharma is the leading distributor of pharmaceuticals around the world and is a part of the UTi Contract Logistics and Distribution family of companies. UTi Pharma doesn't make medicine but its systems, technology, a global and local web of Pharma grade warehouse facilities, fleet of vehicles, and passionate people make sure that patients always get the original quality medicine they need, when and where they need it. UTi Pharma has developed its business hand-in-hand with many of today's leading pharmaceutical companies, providing them - and millions of patients - with value-for-money, accessible and reliable healthcare. Formed as IHD in South Africa back in 1993 by four manufacturers – Bayer, Boehringer, Ciba-Geigy and Roche – UTi Pharma distributes for most of the leading world class Pharma companies, including Abbott, Bayer, Boehringer, BMS, Lilly, MSD, Novartis, Pfizer, Roche, Sanofi, Schering-Plough, Wyeth and many more including Diagnostics and Veterinary companies or divisions.
