Cold Chain Meets Food Industry's Growing Demand on Refrigerated Products
Social media has brought to the forefront of many of our lives nationally celebrated days, such as the upcoming National Ice Cream Day on July 17 and National Hot Dog Day on July 23.
- (1888PressRelease) July 18, 2016 - Jacksonville Beach, FL - The celebrations around some of America's favorite foods has contributed to increased demand of shipping products.
In general, there is a growing demand in the food industry focusing on the health and integrity of foodstuffs. This directly affects the cold chain, or refrigerated transport area of the shipping industry. In order to retain the business of an increasingly demanding and fickle consumer base, manufacturers are finding it imperative to provide their products in the freshest possible state. To most providers that means one thing, keeping everything cold!
Providers say many more products are arriving in supermarkets with shorter shelf lives, greater sensitivity to temperature, particularly rapid temperature changes, and different levels of demand. This means that in the summer months particularly, cold storage warehouses spanning the cold chain (the logistical process for cold shipping) must maintain as many as five separate temperature zones to ensure total freshness of various foods.
Pharmaceutical providers as well are currently dealing with temperature sensitive products, such as custom treatments for various rare diseases. Oftentimes these products will include ingredients that have shorter shelf lives and a higher sensitivity to temperature. Most drugs will require a temperature of 77 degrees Fahrenheit be maintained while others need a mode of transport that can provide consistent temperatures of 35 to 46 degrees.
Another quickly growing concern is a drug category requiring room temperature be maintained. These products are often shipped in reefers (refrigerated trucks).
Technology - The Ever Changing Factor
Just as with any business or industry, the cold chain operatives must keep up with the ever-changing trends in technology to maintain optimum efficiency, safety, and integrity. This is not limited to back-end infrastructure, but to equipment and devices as well. Key shipments depend on real time status reports. AAGEX Freight Group LLC, whose operating entities include AGX Freight Logistics and AGX Freight Carriers, is one of the leading logistics companies in the United States. The professionals at AGX Freight provide the safest and most up-to-date technology, ensuring the best cold shipment possible and striving to stay at the forefront of ever-changing industry standards. These include on-board equipment built into refrigeration units to track and monitor temperature and location. This allows companies the real time ability to mitigate, and in many cases avoid loss of product due to unforeseen difficulties. Many shippers have turned to removable sensors enabling them to independently track temperature fluctuations, and detect many problems before they occur.
Many food providers have built this sensor technology right into their packaging. For example, Miller-Coors utilizes sensors in their packaging to tell when their product is at optimum temperature. These types of sensors are also finding their way onto milk cartons, ice cream containers, etc.; so the shipper and/or manufacturer knows before the product falls outside the acceptable temperature parameters.
Visit AGX Freight to learn more about the cold chain and shipping in general.
AAGEX FREIGHT GROUP, LLC is a non-asset transportation services platform company offering freight transportation and logistics solutions through a network of independent branch locations expanding across North America. With our promise of service excellence and professionalism, we provide or arrange freight transportation services, and other value-plus supply chain execution services, to manufacturers, distributors and retailers.
AAGEX FREIGHT GROUP, LLC is a non-asset transportation services platform company offering freight transportation and logistics solutions through a network of independent branch locations expanding across North America. With our promise of service excellence and professionalism, we provide or arrange freight transportation services, and other value-plus supply chain execution services, to manufacturers, distributors and retailers. For more information,please visit: http://www.AGXFreight.com
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