Tower Cold Chain has announced a series of new initiatives for the KTEvolution, its ‘small box’ solution for direct-to-patient, samples shipment, and last-mile deliveries.
Amongst the new offering is a ‘click and collect’ service for pharmaceutical companies, airlines and 3PLs who rent the containers as well as the option to purchase – and customise – the KTEvolution for businesses preferring to integrate the container in their circular supply chain and in their stock to increase their customer a fully reusable solutions when shipping smaller batches of sensitive pharmaceutical or biotech products, including Cell and Gene Therapies.
These innovations have been brought in following customer feedback since the KTEvolution’s successful launch in 2022.
“The industry wanted smaller solutions that are lightweight, manually portable and tailored towards the growing trend towards personalised medicines and clinical trial samples,” said Niall Balfour, Chief Executive of Tower Cold Chain.
With the ‘click and collect’ service, Tower is making the return of the KTEvolution even easier. Once the containers have been used, the customer simply scans the unique QR code integrated on the top of the unit and Tower arranges collection, which takes place same day or next working day. As a result, customers can minimise storage requirements.
Tower is able to customise the exterior of the KTEvolution, to replace the iconic Tower blue with colours matched to customers’ own branding when purchased. Whatever the preferred colour, the new functionality of the container remains the same: robust, manually portable, with temperature protection up to 120 hours.
