Company awarded £250,000 Government grant to develop ‘palletised’ temperature controlled container.
“This innovation will help the industry’s move towards globalised clinical trials - Chris Pollard, CEO of KryoTrans.
KryoTrans International, one of the leading providers of secure transport solutions for temperature-sensitive biopharmaceuticals, has been awarded a SIF Grant worth nearly £250,000 by the Welsh Assembly Government to develop a reusable container capable of accepting palletised loads. At present, there is no reusable, passive temperature-controlled container on the market that can accept pallets.
As the KT1500 Pallet Shipper will be able to accept both Euro and US pallets stacked one-metre high, it will be easy to load and will vastly increase the range and volume of biopharma products that can take advantage of the acknowledged strengths of the KryoTrans system. This will help manufacturers cut shipping costs and allow CROs to meet the increasing demands placed on them for temperature-controlled distribution by the trend towards globalised clinical trials.
The KT1500 will use the same proven phase change technology to protect its contents that can be found in all of the company’s current containers. This means it will be able to deliver 120-hour plus compliance times at constant, user-defined temperatures ranging from –5o to +30o. It will also use an innovative multi-probe sensing system to log temperatures at various points within the container.
According to Chris Pollard, “The awarding of the grant by the Welsh Assembly Government towards the development of the KT1500 recognises the potential for this new container to transform the way temperature-sensitive biopharmaceuticals are transported. We believe that our partners in Wales will help us create a world-class product."
Under the terms of the grant, KryoTrans has to match the funding. Commenting on this Chris added, “We are happy to make this one of our key R&D priorities as this new product is founded squarely on our successful temperature control technology and represents a logical extension of our current product range."
Once the KT1500 is launched later this year, KryoTrans will be able to offer temperature-controlled containers with capacities ranging from 15 to 1500 litres.
Issued for KryoTrans International by De Facto Communications.
