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January 04, 2021 | Tom Ballard

Greenville, SC company’s shipping container being used to distribute Pfizer vaccine

The North American headquarters and a manufacturing plant for Softbox, the British manufacturer of the insulated containers critical to the stability of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, is located in Greenville, SC.

If you’ve been watching television news reports, you know that the vaccine must be stored in an ultra-low temperature freezer long term. To achieve that requirement, the Softbox Medium ULT Parcel Shipper has been engineered to serve as a temporary storage box if the dry ice is replenished within 24 hours of receiving the box.

Read more about what’s happening about three hours away in this article.


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