UPS Healthcare to Expand Cold Chain Capabilities in Europe with New Rome Facility
March 23 2021 - 4:00AM
UPS Healthcare to Expand Cold Chain Capabilities in Europe
with New Rome Facility
UPS (NYSE: UPS) today announced it is breaking ground on a new
40,000 square meter built-to-suit healthcare logistics facility in
Rome, Italy. The state-of-the-art validated and GMP-compliant
facility is scheduled to open July 2022, and will include multiple
validated controlled temperature environments for healthcare
products requiring -20C to -80C, 2C to 8C and 15C to 25C storage.
The facility will support pharmaceutical and medical device
customers in Italy and will provide another direct link from Europe
to UPS’s global network.
“We continue to expand our industry leading cold chain
capabilities in the European market,” said Wes Wheeler, president
of UPS Healthcare. “Our new facility in Rome will service the
growth needs of our healthcare clients in a country that
manufactures many of the world’s most important sterile
pharmaceuticals.”
When combined with UPS Healthcare’s active
temperature-controlled delivery services, this latest expansion
highlights the company’s position as the provider of choice for
end-to-end cold chain distribution and transportation.
“Our experience moving critical healthcare shipments, including
COVID-19 vaccines, means that more of our clients are looking to us
for solutions,” said Kate Gutmann, UPS chief sales and solutions
officer, and senior vice president, UPS Global Healthcare. “We’re
investing heavily in our global cold chain so we can continue to be
a market leader in this space.”
This expansion, in addition to facility investments in
Singapore, Shanghai, Australia and several key markets in the
United States, is another step in implementing UPS Healthcare’s
strategy. UPS’s recent investments also include: a new
state-of-the-art GMP facility in Birmingham, United Kingdom; a new
warehouse in the Czech Republic; cold chain expansion and a freezer
farm in Roermond, The Netherlands; and a second central GMP
facility near Warsaw, Poland.
The company now operates 125 GDP/GMP facilities in 34 countries
around the world.
UPS Healthcare continues to provide extensive services
addressing the full range of logistics needs from
healthcare-licensed distribution space, to supply chain management,
kitting, packaging and fulfillment of medical devices, labs and
clinical trial specimens. The company’s global infrastructure,
monitoring and tracking capabilities, and private data protection
make UPS Healthcare a best-in-class supply chain expert that
remains flexible, agile and responsive to myriad logistics
demands.
About UPS Healthcare
UPS Healthcare delivers unparalleled logistics expertise to its
customers around the world. UPS Healthcare has more than 10 million
square feet of cGMP and GDP-compliant healthcare distribution space
globally. UPS Healthcare services include inventory management,
temperature-controlled packaging and shipping, storage and
fulfillment of medical devices, labs and clinical trial logistics.
UPS Healthcare’s global infrastructure, its UPS® Premier visibility
service, its track and trace technology, and its global quality
system are well-suited to meet today’s complex logistics demands
for the pharmaceutical, medical device and laboratory diagnostic
industries.
Contacts:UPS Media Relations404-828-7123pr@ups.com
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