Varcode will integrate its Smart Tag technology with Media Sourcey Inc.’s latest cold chain solution that will track COVID-19 test kits, ensuring they are stored and transported at the proper temperature.
‘Smart Tag’ technology will track and measure product safety and quality from production through delivery.
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Jan 25th, 2021
PLD will assemble and apply Varcode “Smart Tags” to products onsite and inline as they roll down the assembly line.
Varcode–a provider of digital, time- and temperature-sensitive supply chain systems–announces its strategic partnership with PL Developments (PLD)–a manufacturer, packager, and distributer of healthcare products–to enhance the scale and availability of Varcode’s cold chain monitoring technology.
Under the agreement, amongst other things, PLD will assemble and apply Varcode “Smart Tags” to products onsite and inline as they roll down the assembly line.
Dec. 21, 2020 4:26 pm ET
When several trays of the fragile Covid-19 vaccine shipped out last week were found to have fallen outside the specified temperature range, the incident put a spotlight on the increasingly sophisticated tracking devices that buttress the immunization effort.
Drugmakers and transportation companies are using an array of sensors, probes and heat-sensitive labels that track the thermal conditions inside shipments, recording small deviations to identify whether the precious cargo may have spoiled on the way.
“These Covid-19 vaccines were the fastest to develop but will be the hardest to deploy,” said Joe Battoe, chief executive of Varcode Ltd., which makes scannable tags with bar codes that follow changes in conditions in transport containers based on time and temperature.
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Vaccine a huge win for digital tracking sector
By Rajesh Kumar Singh / Reuters, CHICAGO
More than half of vaccines go to waste globally every year because of temperature control, logistics and shipment-related issues.
Logistical hurdles are a significant risk for efforts to rapidly distribute COVID-19 vaccines, but they have resulted in booming business for companies such as private California-based Cloudleaf Inc, Germany’s SAP SE and others that sell technology for monitoring shipments from factory freezer to shot in the arm.
Cloudleaf, backed by Intel Capital, the venture arm of chipmaker Intel Corp, uses sensors attached to material containers to track location, temperature, humidity, vibration and acceleration.