Cold Chain Packaging

Let EFP Corporation help your team build a cold chain packaging program that meets or exceeds your internal and external audit requirements.

EFP is a premier molder of expanded foams, with exceptional cold chain packaging partners. 'Cold chain' refers to the use of thermal and refrigerated packaging that protects the transportation of your temperature sensitive materials along a supply chain. Whether your shipment requires 2°-8°C transit protection, maintaining a frozen state, freeze protection, or a controlled room temperature, EFP Corporation can help you design a solution.

Our PharmaTuff® brand meets the needs of the expanding cold chain packaging market. PharmaTuff® cold chain packaging uses molded and fabricated expanded foam containers to deliver your temperature sensitive items safely and confidently from loading dock to destination.

PharmaTuff® is a collection of standard molded and fabricated Expanded Polystyrene containers, Polyurethane Shippers, and single use or returnable bulk pack shippers for large payloads. Our partnership with TCP Reliable allows us to provide you with a full service cold chain packaging team. Throughout North America, EFP and TCP use strategically located distribution centers to supply all of your cold chain packaging needs. We offer:

EFP Corporation serves the pharmaceutical, biotech, medical, laboratory, special materials, and food industries. We test our products to ISTA standards for temperature and small parcel shipping.

As a business unit of J. B. Poindexter Co. Inc., EFP is part of a well diversified, privately held global manufacturing company. The size and strength of the Poindexter group of companies provides EFP Corporation with the leadership and support needed to grow our PharmaTuff® brand with new sizes, materials, manufacturing technologies, and locations.

For more about EFP Corporation, visit us at www.efpcorp.com.

To learn more about J.B.Poindexter and Company, please visit www.jbpoindexter.com.

Announcements

The 2011 season for technical conferences is in full swing. These conferences are important to vendors and manufacturers, as well as other companies involved in keeping the cold chain compliant. For midwest life science companies there are two local events that are growing every year.

The MichBio Annual Meeting andShowcase is at the St. John's Inn in Plymouth, MI on April 18. MichBio is a driving force for lifescienses in the state of Michigan. For more information please visit this site: http://michbio.org/

Indiana is another midwest state that supports life sciences and biotech. The third annual IHIF Midwest Healthcare Supply Chain Conference will be held in Indianapolis May 18-19 at University Place Conference Center in Indianapolis. To register: http://www.ihif.org/pages/supplychain2011

If you need immediate assistance on any PharmaTuff or Cryopak product call Heidi Jones on the sales desk at 800.205.8538 X270. Ask about the Cryopak RePak 120 CRT for transporting pharma products in the 20-25C range for up to 120 hours.

For more information contact us using this link www.pharmatuff.com/contact-us.cfm