JUST RIGHT
Flowers, pharma, chemicals, and other perishable products require temperature-control
solutions with various degrees of difficulty. By Merrill Douglas
Y ou might be shipping center. Maybe it’s chemicals to a semiconductor plant, or Valentine’s Day owers to someone’s home. Many products other than food vaccines to a pharmacy or a human organ to a transplant demand careful temperature control. Let them get too warm or too cold and you render them useless. Techniques for handling those products vary, depending on the commodity and volume involved. In some cases, you pack the product with coolant in an insulated box. In others, you need a trailer, shipping container, or warehouse with temperature control equipment. You might also need a monitoring device, perhaps with a network for transmitting real-time alerts, and a process for addressing any problems that arise.
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