Insulated Shippers

Insulated Shippers

Therapak EPS (Expanded Polystyrene) Insulated Shippers for Refrigerated and Frozen Specimen Shipment

• Most frequently purchased insulated cooler sizes will meet your requirements
• Ideal insulated shipper sizes for reference laboratories, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and clinical testing laboratories who ship and receive temperature sensitive specimens
• Wall thickness insulation ranges from 1" to 2" depending on cooler
• Order coolers alone, with shipper boxes, or with shipper boxes and labeling
• Pricing is based on volume and bulk shipping options

Therapak's range of insulated shippers feature five popular cooler sizes that are inventoried at two locations in the United States (U.S.) in order to provide you with a maximum three day ground or truck shipment turnaround to any point in the Continental U.S.. The two facility approach offers you freight economies to Eastern, Central and Western region shipping points. Therapak's warehouses are located in Buford, Georgia and Duarte, California.

5 insulated shipper sizes to choose from:

Insulated shippers (includes EPS cooler and corrugated shipping box). All insulated shippers are sold individually, in Best Pack quantities or in bulk palletized quantities. Best Pack quantities offer the lowest shipping rates per insulated shipper based on standard ground shipments via FedEx ground, UPS ground and other common carriers. Ordering in Best Pack quantities or multiples thereof will minimize freight rates to your location from Therapak.

Insulated shippers are available in extra small, small, medium, large and extra large sizes as detailed below. Performance data based on in-house thermal testing of the three most widely used sizes indicated the following results:

Thermal Testing:

Extra small cooler - will hold up to two cold packs for a small refrigerated specimen shipment.

Small cooler - most popular size for routine specimen shipments of cold or frozen specimens in clinical trials studies. Can also accommodate one standard 2" or 3" cryostorage box. This is primarily an overnight shipping system for a single patient set of specimen tubes.

Medium - will hold up to two standard 2" or 3" cryostorage boxes. Also ideal for shipping up to five small specimen bags of sample tubes for clinical trial site shipments to a laboratory.

Large - this system will hold up to 25 pounds of dry ice making it suitable for applications that involve frozen transport up to 72 hours. Also use for overnight shipments of multiple patient specimen packages where dry ice capacity may be reduced to accommodate more specimen bags or crystorage boxes.

Extra Large - primarily for International frozen or refrigerated shipments of specimens requiring a high capacity of dry ice that will keep specimens stable for up to 4 days.

Important: Please note that all suggested use comments are estimates based on historical experiences with these shipping systems. Therapak will not guarantee performance of any shipping system. Customers are encouraged to perform test validations for all shipping applications prior to accepting the standard risks associated with shipping temperature sensitive materials that are out of Therapak's immediate control.

Insulated Shippers with DOT/IATA Labeling for Transporting Biological Substance Category B Specimens

Therapak provides three insulated shippers with standard DOT/IATA labels inserted inside the coolers for easy application to the shipper box at the point of specimen shipping preparation. These insulated shippers include the EPS cooler, corrugated shipper box, dry ice label and IATA UN3373 Biological Substance Category B label.

Duramark® Variable Temperature Shippers

Therapak's integrated variable temperature transport system provides a cost-effective method for shipping samples collected at the clinic, hospital, or physician to a testing laboratory.

The system offers variable temperature compartments within one courier overwrap container. The overwrap container consists of a 4-mm rigid and durable corrugated plastic container (Therapak No. 36520) that is reusable. The overwrap serves as a housing to accept various insulated polyurethane (PUR) coolers with lids. The PUR coolers feature one inch insulation.

Depending on your daily specimen temperature requirements, laboratories or their designated couriers must evaluate the best internal configuration considering you can mix and match the insulated polyurethane (PUR) coolers within the courier overwrap container. There are four (4) interior configurations to choose from based on your temperature and transport requirements.

The thermal efficiencies noted in these interior configurations allow transport of frozen, refrigerated and ambient specimens within one overwrap container. Overwrap container comes with easy-carry handle and features strapless closure system.

Ordering Information:
Order corrugated plastic overwrap and PUR coolers individually to achieve interior configuration objectives for your transport requirements.

Customization:
Full customization is available for printing on the outside of the overwrap container. Minimum quantity for customization is 24 overwrap containers. Additional charges apply.