Japan's Nippon Express, a group company of Nippon Express Holdings, Inc., launched a logistics service capable of handling goods requiring ultra-low temperatures (-20 to -85 degree celsius) for the pharmaceutical industry.

Nippon Express has provided a pharmaceutical distribution platform with strict temperature control in two ranges- 2 to 8 degree celsius (refrigerated) and 15 to 25 degree celsius (constant temperature) and has recently introduced innovations that will enable it henceforth to handle goods requiring ultra-low temperatures in the -20 to -85 degree celsius range.

These enhancements will permit ultra-low temperature storage and transport of pharmaceutical products at the research and development stage and in the formulation process. Nippon Express is thus able to offer temperature-controlled logistics services for a broad spectrum of pharmaceutical commodities, including raw materials, intermediates and active pharmaceutical ingredients as well as finished products.

Going forward, the company will continue expanding and developing its services globally to meet demand for increasingly sophisticated and diversified end-to-end pharmaceutical logistics services.