Macfarlane Packaging, the UK’s leading distributor of protective packaging and growing in Europe, has announced a new partnership with eutecma to bring its innovative ICECATCH and PROTECT cold chain solutions to the UK.
Through the partnership, Macfarlane will offer its UK customers access to eutecma’s PROTECT modular packaging system, used together with its ICECATCH high-performance cooling elements. Together, the two solutions support the safe and efficient transport of temperature-sensitive goods across pharmaceutical, healthcare and food supply chains.
Developed in Germany, eutecma’s PROTECT system is a modular, reusable insulated box solution designed to optimise payload efficiency. Macfarlane’s customers will be able to adjust packaging configurations to suit different shipment sizes and temperature requirements, PROTECT helps significantly reduce unused space within shipments, cutting costs associated with transporting unnecessary volume or "shipping air ".
When paired with ICECATCH cooling elements, the system delivers temperature stability for up to 120 hours, ensuring reliable protection for sensitive products across ambient, chilled and frozen ranges. This combination provides Macfarlane’s customers with a highly flexible, high-performance cold chain solution using a single, adaptable system.
Sustainability is also a key part of eutecma’s approach. Alongside its reusable packaging systems, the company has developed retecma, a cold chain reverse logistics process that supports circularity through recovery, reconditioning and recycling. This will support Macfarlane’s customers to reduce waste, recover value and lower the environmental impact of their cold chain operations.
Brad Fisher, Sales Manager – Temperature Controlled Packaging at Macfarlane Packaging, commented: “Together, Macfarlane Packaging and eutecma are bringing highly innovative and sustainable cold chain solution to customers. By combining the modular PROTECT system with ICECATCH cooling elements, our customers can achieve guaranteed temperature performance while also reducing shipping costs using smarter packaging design.
“We are excited to be able to offer our customers in pharmaceutical, healthcare and food supply chains industries a wide variety of specialist temperature-controlled packaging solutions that delivers efficiency and sustainability for their business.”
Kevin Grogan, Chief Executive Officer, eutecma GmbH, added: “We’re pleased to be working with Macfarlane Packaging to make eutecma’s modular cold chain solutions more accessible in the UK. In healthcare supply chains, progress depends not only on innovation, but on real time availability of products and packaging solutions. That is what makes this partnership so important to us.”
If you would like to request further information about eutecma ICECATCH and PROTECT cold chain solutions, please contact Macfarlane Packaging at macfarlanepackaging.com/contact/.