Validated outcomes,lane by lane.

Every shipment that leaves our partners’ docks carries a promise about temperature, time, and compliance. These are the programs where we kept it, and the numbers behind how.

Specialty Pharmacy

Holding 15–30°C in a mailer, not a cooler, as order volumes climb.

ISTA Certified Laboratory

A specialty pharmacy running a fast-growing direct-to-patient program reached the point where order volume was climbing faster than its storage could keep up. The team needed last-mile packaging that could scale with demand without taking over the pharmacy floor.

Challenge

The pharmacy started at roughly 50 orders a day, about one pallet of coolers, and grew to around 200 orders a day. EPS coolers no longer fit the available storage, and inbound freight was expensive because so few coolers travel on a pallet. Order volumes were growing faster than storage capacity could handle.

Solution

TempAid moved the program to the SpeedyPac Mailer, with phase-change material integrated into an envelope-style format tuned to the 15 to 30°C range. Shipments go out without pre-conditioning or separate refrigerants, and the flat mailer replaces the bulk of a rigid cooler.

Outcomes

The mailer freed the storage space coolers had consumed and made inbound freight cheaper by fitting far more units on every pallet. Lighter, smaller parcels ship at the rate of mail, lowering courier cost on the way out. The pack-out now scales with order volume instead of fighting it.

Mailers per pallet
420–490 / pallet

Against 72 to 96 EPS coolers per pallet, recovering the storage the program had run out of.

Integrated PCM
15–30°C

Tuned to range, with no separate refrigerants or pre-conditioning.

See the productPCM Mailers
Clinical Trials

Deep-frozen −15 to −25°C by air, without dry ice or the DG delays.

ISTA Certified Laboratory

A clinical-trials logistics operation moving frozen samples and investigational product by air needed uninterrupted deep-frozen integrity from collection through transit. Dry ice was holding the temperature but creating handling, cost, and scheduling problems the team could no longer absorb.

Challenge

Shipment volumes swing day to day, so dry ice is hard to procure against demand, and once bought it has to be used inside about seven days or it is gone. Costs were spiking, every pack-out needed a dangerous-goods certified employee, and each air shipment had to be flagged as dangerous goods. Because an aircraft can only carry so much dry ice, full shipments were getting bumped off the flight.

Solution

TempAid matched the deep-frozen range with the SteadyPac Cube and PCM-21. The vacuum-insulated cube is engineered for reuse over a five-year service life, ships as regular freight with no dangerous-goods registration, and can be packed by any employee. Each configuration comes with a qualification report run at the exact mass load.

Outcomes

Removing dry ice took the dangerous-goods handling, the DG flag, and the aircraft bumping out of the workflow, so shipments move on the team’s own schedule. Thermal performance is consistent from one shipment to the next, and the plates are safer for staff to handle. Because the cube lasts for years, a recurring dry ice expense becomes a one-time investment.

Reusable service life
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Replacing dry ice with a stable, repeatable system, no DG handling and no aircraft bumping.

Deep-frozen
−15 to −25°C

Held year-round with PCM-21, validated at the exact mass load.

See the productSteadyPac Cube
Blood & Tissue Banking

One standardized PCM plate across whole blood, platelets, and plasma.

ISTA Certified Laboratory

A blood and tissue bank runs multiple programs, whole blood, platelets, and plasma, across many collection and distribution sites. Each program carries its own temperature and cube-size requirements, and the network needed a way to standardize without slowing down mobile collection.

Challenge

Different programs call for different cube sizes, which historically meant stocking several sizes of PCM plate as well. Every location had to hold the full set of plate sizes, making procurement and stocking complex across the network. Blood buses and donor centers also need a grab-and-go pack-out that is ready without prep.

Solution

The bank moved to the SteadyPac Move. Teams grab and go on a blood bus or at a donor center, and a single PCM plate adapts across the different cube sizes as it goes in and out, so one standardized plate covers every cube in the network.

Outcomes

The bank standardized on a single PCM plate across all three programs, every cube size, and every location. Procurement and stocking simplified at each site, and mobile collection kept its grab-and-go workflow. The system reuses across the network instead of adding more plate sizes to manage.

Standardized PCM plate
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Covering whole blood, platelets, and plasma across every cube size and location.

Mobile pack-out
Grab & go

For blood buses and donor centers, reusable across the network.

See the productSteadyPac Move
Pharmaceutical Distribution

Custom-mapped lanes across three temperature bands, tuned to the truck.

ISTA Certified Laboratory

A B2B pharmaceutical wholesale distributor runs its own temperature-controlled lanes on ambient trucks, packing out of a fridge and handing off to last-mile delivery. Product spans three bands at once, 2–8°C, 15–25°C, and frozen −15 to −21°C, so a single generic pack-out was never going to fit.

Challenge

The trucks run to an ambient setpoint, roughly 18°C in winter and 20°C in summer, and product packed out of a fridge sees fridge, then ambient truck, then the last-mile doorstep. Off-the-shelf packaging either failed on that profile or was over-built in the wrong places, adding cost without matching the lane.

Solution

TempAid mapped the full lane and the shipment lifecycle, captured the lane data, then tuned off-the-shelf components, SteadyPac Cubes and SteadyPac EPS, to that specific lane rather than forcing a catalog solution. Seasonal changeovers were mapped to the weather on the distributor’s actual routes.

Outcomes

The lane-matched pack-out costs less than an over-engineered off-the-shelf option and performs better on the real profile. Seasonal configurations swap over with the weather, and one program covers all three temperature bands from a refined set of standard components.

Temperature bands
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2–8°C, 15–25°C, and frozen −15 to −21°C, all covered on custom-mapped lanes.

Changeovers
Seasonal

Tuned to route weather, using SteadyPac and EarthWise components.

See the productSteadyPac Cube
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