Cold Chain Services

As a cold chain specialised company, our TCP Alternatives laboratory offers specialized services for the design, development, testing and validation and qualification of cold chain shipping and packaging materials as well as for cold chain optimisation.

The TCP Alternatives laboratory is a partnership between TCP/Reliable Inc. and Alternatives Technologie Pharma Inc.

Materials Design, Packaging Methods and Laboratory Testing

Development of packaging materials & methods

Based on our vast experience related to cold chain and packaging for Life Science and Healthcare markets, we offer design, development and optimization services for the packaging of sensitive products.

TCP Alternatives laboratory offers design services for packaging materials and methods so as to ensure the product integrity and cold chain regulatory compliance. To be successful, we work with the current commercially available packaging materials and products, but we also work with reliable and renewed partners who are specialists in isothermal packaging methods and materials. When your needs can not be fully met with currently available products, we assist you in designing customized packaging methods and products to ensure the integrity and security of your products.

Laboratory Analysis &Testing

TCP Alternatives laboratory has implemented its own testing facilities, including environmental chambers and data acquisition instruments, to model the environmental conditions that may apply on your packages and products, and to measure the packaging performances under changing environmental conditions.

These laboratory testing procedures enable us to design and qualify packaging materials and methods, whatever these packaging materials and methods are developed by your company or by our services. Our automated facilities favour the cost-effective writing of all the documentation that is required by the regulatory bodies to demonstrate the control over the product integrity.

Validation and Qualification

Can a transport procedure be validated ?
No because transport is not performed in a controlled environment. You must however qualify the packaging methods of all equipment used to maintain temperature and humidity ranges required for your products.

These qualifications will allow you to know about the protectiveness of your packaging under different conditions. The validation/ qualification includes written installation, operational and performance protocols (IQ, OQ, PQ), the carrying out of these protocols and written reports.

Cold Chain Optimisation

Several parameters can influence the performance of your cold chain. It is important to identify and analyse these parameters properly to evaluate their impact on your cold chain process and apply corrective measures, if necessary, to get better results from the equipment used and a better conservation of your temperature gap sensitive products.