The new packaging centre is said to be the firm’s first US-based logistics facility designed to provide reusable cold chain packaging options for customers
UPS Healthcare has opened new reusable cold chain packaging centre in Louisvillez. (Credit: United Parcel Service of America, Inc.)
UPS Healthcare has opened a new cold chain and packaging centre in Kentucky, US, in a bid to better serve its global healthcare logistics customers.
The new facility, dubbed Cold Chain Packaging Center of Excellence, is said to be the firm’s first US-based logistics facility designed to provide reusable cold chain packaging options for customers.
Located on the company’s campus near the Worldport global air hub in Louisville, the facility will help UPS Healthcare to build advanced healthcare logistics capabilities.
UPS Global Healthcare executive vice president and chief sales and solutions officer Kate Gutmann said: “Our decades of experience create the perfect foundation for continued investment in capabilities and infrastructure around the world.
“UPS Healthcare is on a mission to provide our customers with even higher performance, greater cost efficiencies, and more sustainable shipping options.”
Designed to contribute to a circular economy, the new facility uses the complete life cycle of temperature-controlled packages.
The new Louisville facility, which joins existing cold chain facilities across the globe, enables the company to provide increased flexibility and efficiency to customers.
UPS has designed temperature-controlled facilities to efficiently handle biologically derived drugs such as vaccines at any temperature.
UPS Healthcare president Wes Wheeler said: “We are building on our expertise and leadership displayed throughout the pandemic by continuing to develop new capabilities in cold chain logistics around the world.
“With new facilities and capabilities, UPS Healthcare is better positioned to safely manage the growing number of temperature-sensitive biologic drugs, as well as cell and gene treatments currently in development.”
Currently, the company has 125 GDP/GMP facilities in 34 countries across the globe.
In November last year, UPS Healthcare and Stirling Ultracold launched portable ultra-low temperature (ULT) freezers for vaccines in an effort to fight against Covid-19 disease.