17 February 2021 | News
Godrej & Boyce launches 'made in India' ultra-low-temperature freezers (below -80°C) to offers cold chain solutions to all vaccines across broad temperature range
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Cold Chain Partner to the world's largest covid vaccination drive in India, refrigeration expert Godrej & Boyce ('G&B' - the India-based flagship company of the Godrej Group, with a turnover of USD1.5 bn) has launched advanced, made in India, medical refrigeration solutions to safeguard sensitive vaccines at just the right temperature. It has now launched state-of-the-art Ultra-Low Temperature Freezers (ULTF) which can preserve life-saving medical supplies including mRNA-based vaccines, below -80°C, thus boosting the global medical cold chain in the anti-Covid drive.
These are built for reliability, ensuring continuous operations with CO2/NO2 backup systems. Godrej's expertise in electronics enables it to build robust systems for varying power conditions.
The brand offers WHO PQS pre-certified vaccine refrigerators (2-8°C), blood bank refrigerators and deep freezers (-20°C), ULTFs (below -80°C) and will soon be introducing mobile and passive cold chain solutions for last-mile distribution.
Kamal Nandi, Business Head and EVP, Godrej Appliances said," The newly introduced Godrej ultra-low-temperature freezers have a wide range of critical applications like mRNA-based vaccine storage, blood banks, organ storage, pharma cold chain, testing laboratories, animal husbandry, food cold chain, etc."