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Cold Chain Packaging - Making Every Degree Count
7 August 2025

Transforming Cold Chain Packaging into Your Strategic Advantage – Making Every Degree Count

In pharmaceutical logistics, innovation demands more than speed and precision – it requires intelligence, agility, and proven expertise. With Marken’s Packaging-as-a-Service, you benefit from decades of industry leadership.

We deliver integrated, end-to-end packaging solutions that safeguard product integrity, ensure compliance, and drive sustainability, while also reducing complexity and cost.

Navigating Pharmaceutical Packaging Challenges 

Pharmaceutical packaging is becoming increasingly complex. From maintaining strict temperature controls for biologics and navigating evolving regulatory requirements to managing global inventories, the challenges are significant. Layer on the growing demand for sustainability, and the complexity only deepens. 

Marken’s Packaging-as-a-Service model turns these challenges into opportunities, transforming packaging from a basic necessity to a strategic business enabler. By redefining packaging management, we empower biopharma companies to enhance efficiency, ensure consistency, and maintain full control across the entire packaging asset lifecycle.

Fit-for-Purpose Packaging 

Marken’s Packaging-as-a-Service delivers expert guidance and operational excellence across a spectrum of advanced packaging solutions. We do more than supply containers – we meticulously identify, qualify, and deploy solutions uniquely tailored to each product, shipment profile, and client requirement.

From passive packaging to temperature-controlled systems for sensitive biologics, and from active containers to sophisticated cryogenic technologies for therapy transport, our data-driven approach guarantees you receive the highest-performing packaging for every shipment. We eliminate guesswork and capital expenses in specialized materials, so you can focus on advancing life-changing medical innovation.

Integrated Regulatory & Logistics Expertise

What truly sets our Packaging-as-a-Service apart is the seamless integration of our packaging portfolio, precision logistics, and extensive industry expertise. Our experts understand cold chain requirements, dangerous goods handling, customs protocols, and global regulatory landscapes. Every packaging solution is designed to move efficiently and compliantly from origin to destination, with full support for labeling, documentation, and declarations, minimizing operational burden and reducing risk.  

Driving a More Sustainable Supply Chain

Sustainability is critical to modern pharmaceutical logistics. Our Packaging-as-a-Service offering embraces circular economy principles by enabling the reuse, refurbishment, and requalification of suitable packaging solutions. For eligible solutions, we manage every step – from retrieval and inspection to cleaning and validation – ensuring seamless, compliant processes. 

The outcome: significant waste reduction, lower environmental impact, and measurable progress toward your ESG goals. Imagine the transformative impact of minimizing single-use packaging throughout your entire global supply chain.

A Smarter Path Forward

With Packaging-as-a-Service, Marken empowers you to streamline supply chains, strengthen compliance, safeguard products, and drive sustainability – all through a single, expertly managed logistics partner. Backed by the extensive reach and resources within our UPS Healthcare network, Marken provides the agility, intelligence, and scale you need to deliver exceptional care to patients worldwide, without compromise.

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