Softbox Systems Announces Partnership With Iqpc For The 15th Annual Global Forum

Greenville, South Carolina, US – Softbox Systems, a leading global innovator and provider of Cold Chain packaging for the pharmaceutical industry, announces that it is proudly sponsoring the 15th Annual Global Forum. Softbox Systems will be joined by 850 temperature controlled life science leaders, September 25-29 at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place in Chicago, IL.

Softbox Systems will be featured in the comprehensive expo hall, that’s showcasing the most innovative technologies and solutions in the industry. Softbox Systems, the award-winning temperature control packaging innovator, has been designing and manufacturing high performance passive temperature control packaging solutions for over 20 years.

Returning for its 15th year, the Global Forum heads back to Chicago with a focus on the next generation of temperature control solutions. This year over 100 speakers and over 120 sponsors and exhibitors will explore cost-reduction strategies, upcoming and changing industry standards and risk management that will help companies ensure maximum compliance, quality and product integrity.

This year’s impressive line-up of speakers includes Paul Zikopoulos, VP of IBM’s Competitive and BigData Analytics Teams and Future Trends Expert, IBM; Rey Chern, Director of Engineering, Amgen; Lisa Wyman, Head of Quality Compliance & Data Analytics, Shire Pharmaceuticals; John Brownstein PhD, Chief Innovation Officer and Professor, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School; and Wesley Schmidt, Vice President, Quality Systems, AbbVie; to name a few.

About Softbox Systems

Softbox Systems is an award-winning temperature control packaging innovator that has been designing and producing high performance passive temperature control packaging solutions for over 20 years. The Company offers consistent quality to its clients from its strategically located global manufacturing sites throughout Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific.

Softbox Systems has formed long standing partnerships with the world’s leading biotech, pharmaceutical, clinical research and logistics companies, and applies innovative thinking to overcome the challenges that clients face in managing the Cold Chain when shipping temperature sensitive clinical trial and commercialized products.

In 2014, Great Point Partners, a leading health care investment firm, recapitalized Softbox Systems to provide growth financing for the Company to continue to execute on its expansion, innovation and global investment strategy to support its clients around the globe.

Softbox Systems – Enabling Cold Chain Packaging Excellence

About IQPC

IQPC produces 1,500 global events that are custom-tailored to the unique needs of business executives. Founded in 1973, IQPC leverages an office network that spans six continents and a wealth of intellectual capital to provide an unparalleled portfolio of conferences and seminars. For more information, please visit http://www.iqpc.com

Softbox Systems Acquires Tempack to Expand Client Base and Presence in Europe and Latin America

Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire, UK, 21st August 2017 – Softbox Systems, a leading global innovator and provider of cold chain packaging for the pharmaceutical industry (both commercialised and clinical trial products), today announces the acquisition of Tempack, a very successful Barcelona-based Spanish company serving the cold chain industry with innovative and high quality temperature control packaging for both the pharmaceutical and food home-delivery markets throughout Europe and Latin America.

The combination of Softbox Systems’ and Tempack’s industry leading passive shipping solutions, for both parcel and bulk-shipping systems, will expand the product portfolio and global geographic footprint for their regional and global pharma and food home-delivery clients.

Wayne Langlois, President of Softbox Systems, commented: “I am extremely proud to welcome Tempack as our partner within the Softbox family. The combination of our talent, our capacity, our valuable client relationships, our geographic coverage, our innovation culture and the synergy of both our growth strategies will make us even more capable of providing the solutions our clients value and our employees enjoy producing.”

About Tempack

Tempack has been a very successful innovator in cold chain packaging solutions for both pharma and more recently food home-delivery solutions, for over 20 years. A market leader in Spain, France, Germany, UK and Latin America, Tempack provides a unique adaptability to customer needs with quick-design, customised solutions with high quality at very competitive costs. For more information visit www.tempack.com

About Softbox Systems

Softbox Systems is an award winning temperature control packaging innovator that has been designing and producing high performance passive temperature control packaging solutions for over 20 years. The Company offers consistent quality to its clients from its strategically located global manufacturing sites throughout Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific.

Softbox Systems has formed long standing partnerships with the world’s leading biotech, pharmaceutical, clinical research and logistics companies, and applies innovative thinking to overcome the challenges that clients face in managing the Cold Chain when shipping temperature sensitive clinical trial and commercialised products.

In 2014, Great Point Partners, a leading health care investment firm, recapitalised Softbox to provide growth financing for the Company to continue to execute on its expansion, innovation and global investment strategy to support its clients around the globe.

Softbox Systems – Enabling Cold Chain Packaging Excellence

Softbox Systems Announces that it is Expanding its Global Reach with New and Expanded U.S. and Canadian Headquarters

Long Crendon, Oxfordshire, UK, 16^th June 2017 – Softbox Systems, a leading international temperature control packaging provider, today announced it is expanding its U.S. and Canadian operations to accommodate their rapid growth. The company is bringing a significant new capital investment and is projected to create 70 new jobs.

Softbox Systems has been designing and producing innovative high performance passive temperature control packaging solutions for over 20 years. With manufacturing locations in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia Pacific, the company supplies Cold Chain packaging solutions to the world’s leading biotech, pharmaceuticals, clinical research and logistics companies.

Wayne Langlois, Softbox Systems President, commented “We are very proud to be committing to the opening of our new U.S. and Canadian headquarters in Greenville, S.C. Our highly innovative passive shippers are boosting our market share both in the U.S. and globally in the Pharmaceutical Cold Chain economy. We are excited by our plans for continuous growth while we expand our high quality workforce and continue our commitment to customer excellence.”

The new 65,000 sq. ft. American headquarters will be launched in Greenville, S.C., in the summer of 2018, and will house the American executive team, production, warehousing and fully equipped advanced laboratory.

About Softbox Systems

Softbox Systems is an award winning temperature control packaging innovator that has been designing and producing high performance passive temperature control packaging solutions for over 20 years. The Company offers consistent quality to its clients from its strategically located global manufacturing sites throughout Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific.

Softbox Systems has formed long standing partnerships with the world’s leading biotech, pharmaceutical, clinical research and logistics companies, and applies innovative thinking to overcome the challenges that clients face in managing the Cold Chain when shipping temperature sensitive clinical trial and commercialised products.

In 2014, Great Point Partners, a leading health care investment firm, recapitalised Softbox to provide growth financing for the Company to continue to execute on its expansion, innovation and global investment strategy to support its clients around the globe.

Softbox Systems – Enabling Cold Chain Packaging Excellence

Leading Minds Seminar

Collaborative Learning that FUELS your Temperature Controlled Pharmaceuticals

November 7th-8th 2017 at Princeton Marriott at Forrestal, in Princeton, New Jersey.

*UPDATED Agenda*

Download the final  LMS 2017 Agenda, including speakers from MHRA, IATA, Biogen and BMS.

Main topics include:

• IATA led discussion on experiences within the air cargo supply chain.
• BMS led discussion on alternatives to shipping validation studies.
• Clinical site quality control and temperature monitoring challenges.
• Passive temperature control packaging – methods for evaluating the performance.
• Master Data Management – combining disparate data sets.
• The Internet of Things (IoT) and the Future of Cold Chain Visibility.
• Case study: Experiences transitioning to a new global cold chain database.

About Leading Minds Seminar

Leading Minds Seminars bring together serious-minded practitioners to solve very real, very challenging operational hurdles in the pharmaceutical cold chain. Learning from your peers in other pharma companies, ensures you’re on track, implementing the right, most cost-effective best practices.

All pharmaceutical manufacturers are invited, complimentary (no fee) attendance. Teams welcome.

Unique Format

LMS programs are 65% discussion based. Think industry retreat. Not paintball or karaoke. Instead of bringing together the best minds from pharmaceutical manufacturers to solve business critical issues, in a fun collaborative learning environment.

No press, no sponsorships, no pressure and a relaxed environment.

What to Expect

Day One: Presentations, small group discussions, and problem-solving breakout sessions. The day will focus on current affairs, trends, regulations and practical case studies that seek to solve business-critical issues. The day will conclude with an evening Networking BBQ and Patio Party.

Day Two: Consists of User Group meeting(s) in two separate rooms that discuss ELPRO/Softbox specific technologies and trends in those technology areas, including implementation challenges and sharing of customer experiences.

All pharmaceutical manufacturers are invited, complimentary (NO FEE) attendance. Teams welcome.

Past attendees said:

“I took away ideas on a central database for stability data supporting distribution and immediate knowledge of the temps seen in distribution. All in one place to answer those excursion question immediately.”

“I gained more information in this free session than I have at any of the paid sessions. I was there to listen to others and come away with some new ideas and/or perspectives.”

Additional Information

Location and Hotel
Princeton Marriott at Forrestal, 100 College Road East, Princeton, New Jersey, 08540

Seminar hosted by:

Softbox Systems is an award-winning temperature control packaging innovator with over 20 years’ experience. We offer consistent quality to our clients from our strategically located global manufacturing sites throughout Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific.

We have formed long-standing partnerships with the world’s leading biotech, pharmaceutical, clinical research and logistics companies, and apply innovative thinking to overcome the challenges that our clients face in maintaining the Cold Chain when shipping temperature sensitive products.

For over 30 years, ELPRO is widely recognized as the global knowledge leader in innovative, Swiss-engineered environmental monitoring solutions and data loggers for pharma, healthcare and life science. ELPRO partners with clients to develop solutions that integrate ELPROs high-quality measurement components into their business processes. Clients include biotechs, diagnostic manufacturers, and the top 20 pharma companies. As the inventor of the LIBERO PDF Logger, ELPRO solutions have the lowest total cost of ownership and assist pharmaceutical and healthcare companies around the world preserve and manage stability budgets and simplify their cold chain by reducing manual work, resulting in quicker release times.

Softbox Systems Announces Partnership with IQPC for the 14th Annual Cold Chain Gdp & Temperature Management Logistics Global Forum

The World’s Largest Event for Temperature Controlled Life Science Supply Chains

New York, NY – Softbox Systems recently announced they are proudly sponsoring the 14^th Annual Cold Chain GDP & Temperature Management Logistics Global Forum. Softbox Systems will be joined by 850 temperature controlled life science leaders, September 26-30 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA.

In its 14^th installment, the Cold Chain Global Forum has significantly expanded the topic focuses, session formats, speaking faculty and vendor options to help meet the industry’s emerging and ongoing challenges for 2016 and beyond. This year over 120 speakers and over 120 sponsors and exhibitors will explore cost-reduction strategies, upcoming and changing industry standards and risk management that will help companies ensure maximum compliance, quality and product integrity.

This year’s impressive line-up of speakers includes Steve Todd, Senior GDP Inspector at MHRA; Christopher Wallace, Senior Director, International Supply Chain Operations at Sanofi Genzyme; Terry Carrico, VP Corporate Security & Safety at McKesson; Bill McGillian, Associate Director, Logistics at Merck; and Rajesh Pednekar, Head of Distribution at Pfizer India; to name a few.

The event is designed to include eight pre-conference workshops, two in-depth master classes, two days of main conference sessions, roundtable discussions & panel discussions, and more than 14 hours of networking to discuss the most important challenges and most effective strategies and solutions within the cold chain industry.

Softbox Systems will be featured in the comprehensive expo hall, that’s showcasing the most innovative technologies and solutions in the industry. Softbox Systems the leading global innovator in the design and development of passive temperature controlled packaging solutions, offers a complete range of pre-qualified off-the-shelf solutions for your cold chain, ambient, frozen, or CRT finished goods, API, or clinical trial products.

“We’re thrilled to head back to Boston once again for the Cold Chain Global Forum,” said Claudia Rubino, Divisional Director – Cold Chain Portfolio, IQPC. “The Global Forum continues to be the leading event for temperature-controlled life science supply chains, and we’re pleased to have Softbox Systems partner with us to help make the event a success.”

About IQPC

IQPC produces 1,500 global events that are custom-tailored to the unique needs of business executives. Founded in 1973, IQPC leverages an office network that spans six continents and a wealth of intellectual capital to provide an unparalleled portfolio of conferences and seminars. For more information, please visit http://www.iqpc.com

Douglas Iredale joins the Softbox USA Team

Softbox Systems USA is pleased to announce the appointment of Douglas Iredale in the position of VP Business Development.

With an extensive knowledge of cold chain shipping, Douglas will play a key role in leading our North America Sales Team and assisting in the development of our Key US and global accounts.  With more than 10 years Pharmaceutical Cold Chain experience, we have no doubt that he will bring significant value to our clients.

Douglas can be contacted at [email protected]

About Softbox

We are a growing team of 120 dedicated people who have the expertise and products to help the Pharmaceutical industry meet increasing regulatory requirements for compliant cold chain shipping. Our extensive range of engineered packaging systems has been designed and qualified to ensure your cold chain products can be shipped with confidence.

Softbox Wins Second Queen’s Award

Softbox Systems is proud to announce that it has won a second Queen’s Award for Enterprise, this time in the category of Innovation to add to that won in 2011 for International Trade.

The award was granted for Softbox innovation in designing, developing and commercialising its range of Silverpod Air Cargo Temperature Control systems for shipping temperature sensitive pharmaceuticals. Softbox development of Silverpods represented a completely new way of looking at how best to optimise the use of cargo space within wide-bodied aircraft to reduce shipping costs and CO2 emissions whilst ensure maximum efficacy of pharmaceuticals – creating a completely new patented generation of shipping systems.

Mark Hammond, Softbox Systems Sales Director, comments; “Since their introduction in 2009, Silverpod’s have formed a key part of our solution offering and are now used by more than half the worlds top 50 pharmaceutical companies and their 3PL’s to transport temperature sensitive finished drugs. The Silverpod brand has become synonymous with providing a high performance cost effective alternative to using other passive and active shipping systems. To support our clients, we have made a significant investment to manufacture and supply Silverpod’s at strategic locations around the world from our sites in the UK, USA, India and Singapore. Everyone in our team is very proud to have won a second prestigious Queens Award that recognises our ongoing commitment to innovation and excellence.”

Softbox USA Invests to Meet Growing Demand

Softbox USA is pleased to report that its business is going from strength to strength winning major new customers for its range of temperature control shipping systems.

John Hammes, Softbox USA General Manager, comments; “Though we’re still the younger sibling to our UK counterparts, the American’s are chasing hard to match their success. We’ve laid the foundation over the last 4 years and we’re now seeing growth in the marketplace as pharmaceuticals, logistics providers and speciality food companies all become regular users of our full array of products throughout the Americas. 2013 has seen a significant increase in demand for our products. To support this accelerated growth I’m pleased to announce that we’ve just signed a long term lease on a new 30,000 square foot manufacturing and warehouse site in Greer, South Carolina. Todd Meredith, our Operations Manager, is relocating from our office in Oregon to oversee the start up of the new site as well as manage the volume of output forecast for years to come. The new facility will mean the creation of 6 manufacturing jobs as well as a full time quality person to ensure that we continue to uphold the stringent requirements we’ve established globally. Beyond the new team at Greer, we’ve also brought in 2 new Account Managers and an Accounting Manager.

For more information on how Softbox USA could help your business manage and improve the efficiency of its cold chain contact [email protected]