Press release
TNT signs up two customers for new cold chain packaging
and shipping solution
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 14 April 2016 – The express delivery company TNT has
signed up two global customers for its new cold chain packaging and shipping solution
Medpak VI°C, which officially launches this month. One is a leading clinical trial company; the
other is a global biotech company.
Medpak VI°C is a reusable temperature-controlled packaging network service to help
healthcare manufacturers reduce costs and waste when shipping temperature-sensitive
pharmaceutical and biological materials.
This service is called Medpak VI°C because it guarantees a temperature variance of no more
than 1°C during transport.
Stricter regulations on patient safety and the growth in biologic drugs are increasing the need
for proven cold chain logistics solutions, but these are often provided at a high price by
specialist firms with no own delivery network.
With Medpak VI°C, TNT offers an all-inclusive solution that combines high-end temperaturecontrolled packaging solutions with the comfort of a transport integrator’s air and road
network. The service comes with tracking and monitoring solutions to ensure compliant cold
chain management.
Central to Medpak VI°C is the patented, cold chain packaging technology from the German
company va-Q-tec. This packaging solution uses PCM (phase change materials) and vacuum
insulation panels to keep temperature-sensitive packages within defined temperature ranges.
Readily available at GDP (Good Distribution Practice)-compliant stations, they can maintain
chilled, controlled ambient, or frozen temperatures for more than 96 hours.
TNT provides the boxes on a one-way rental basis, transports the temperature-sensitive
materials, and takes the empty boxes back after delivery to the receiver. The receivers can be
hospitals, clinics, physicians, manufacturing or pharmaceutical distribution locations.
This allows healthcare manufacturers to outsource the end-to-end management of packaging,
conditioning, transport and return logistics to one global transport integrator.
“Reusing phase change material shippers can lower the cost of quality compliance, whilst
reducing risk in the cold chain. With Medpak VI°C, we answer the need for balance between
quality and cost, which our customers in the life science and health industry are looking for,”
says Cathy O’Brien, Industry Marketing Director Healthcare at TNT.
Healthcare is a priority industry for TNT’s transformation and turnaround strategy Outlook.
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About TNT
TNT is one of the world’s largest express delivery companies. On a daily basis, TNT delivers
close to one million consignments ranging from documents and parcels to palletised freight.
The company operates road and air transportation networks in Europe, the Middle East and
Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. TNT made €6.9 billion in revenue in 2015.
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