May 27 2010
Entropy Solutions, Inc., a thermal technology development company, has been awarded “Diamond” honors, the highest award level, for its GREENBOX™ Thermal Management System in the 22nd Annual DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation. GREENBOX was recognized for “demonstrating excellence in innovation, sustainability and cost/waste reduction.”
The DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation is the industry’s longest running, independently judged global awards program honoring packaging materials, processes, technology and service innovations. More than 160 entries were reviewed and judged by a prestigious panel of international jurors.
GREENBOX System
“These winners demonstrate that collaborative innovation has no boundaries. It crosses disciplines, markets and geographies,” said William J. Harvey, president – DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers. “The collective ingenuity of these business partnerships has yielded innovative new solutions that address pressing consumer needs.”
The GREENBOX system uses Entropy Solutions’ patented PureTemp(TM) phase change technology to keep temperature-sensitive products at a consistent temperature for more than five days. Since its initial launch in 2008, GREENBOX has revolutionized the cold chain-shipping industry by keeping temperature-sensitive items within a very narrow temperature range for extended durations of time, all while being 100 percent safe for humans and the environment.
Jury leader John Bernardo, president of Sustainable Innovations, spoke to the growth of sustainability in the packaging industry during a webinar announcing the competition winners May 25. “Sustainable packaging is gaining momentum,” Bernardo said. “This year’s winners represent impressive strides in improved sustainability.”
GREENBOX was especially lauded for its essential thermal protection of life-saving drugs while dramatically reducing freight costs and packaging waste. Companies such as Walmart Specialty Pharmacy, Abbott Laboratories, Amgen, American Red Cross and Medtronic use Entropy’s GREENBOX system to ship pharmaceuticals, biologics and blood supplies.
“PureTemp and its packaging applications like GREENBOX are changing the way life science companies do business, and we are honored to receive this recognition from one of the world’s pioneers in sustainable packaging,” Entropy CEO Eric Lindquist said. “We are equally fortunate to partner with the world’s leading life science companies who utilize Pure Temp technology to save and improve lives by shipping life-saving pharmaceuticals and advancing medical discoveries.”
PureTemp(TM) – The Science Behind GREENBOX
Entropy’s GREENBOX is powered by PureTemp, the world’s first and only 100 percent bio-based, renewable phase change material. It’s a specially engineered, feedstock-based derivative that controls temperatures to extremes – used in life science-related polymerization reactors (+150C), and temperature sensitive packaging (-40C) – for extended periods of time. PureTemp’s unique formulation is used in liquid, microencapsulated and macro-encapsulated forms, but for cold-chain applications, liquid is typically used. PureTemp is a breakthrough energy-control technology that is also used in other industries, including construction, heating/cooling, textiles, health care, energy storage, and food and beverage.