Reading, UK: Tower Cold Chain has received the King’s Award for Enterprise, in the Innovation category.
The award recognises Tower’s KTM container – a thermally insulated passive pallet shipping system, with modular construction design. Tower demonstrated outstanding commercial success over two years with the KTM, is a revolutionary contributor to the pharmaceutical logistics market, Tower says.
Tower’s passive systems use phase change materials and/or dry ice, to maintain the internal contents of the container within a specific temperature range for 120 hours, without active control, electricity, or manual intervention. The standard controlled temperatures are ambient (15 to 25°C), chilled (2 to 8°C), frozen (-15 to -25°C) and deep frozen (-60 to -80°C).
“The KTM has filled a gap in the cold chain shipping market, with its design striking the optimum balance between volumetric efficiency, durability, and optimised weight. Employing a modular construction of roto-moulded parts, this produced a lighter, more robust and cost-effective option – between 5% – 30% lighter than competitor products. This further improves the KTM’s sustainability credentials across all transport supply chains, offering a fully reusable, space-efficient solution,” Tower says.
Niall Balfour, chief executive, Tower Cold Chain, said: “With our industry-leading product, it is an incredible honour to receive such recognition for the KTM range as we continue to work with global pharmaceutical manufacturers, airlines and third-party logistics customers to deliver products to patients in a robust, reliable, reusable method.”
