The Zug based startup, SkyCell specialising in safety pharma containers, and the American DuPont Safety & Construction (DuPont), with a 200-year history, have entered a collaboration on technical and market development. The two companies will leverage their strengths to develop innovative solutions that meet their customers’ needs worldwide.
SkyCell manufactures and delivers temperature-controlled containers that can be used for transporting some of the most expensive and temperature-sensitive goods in the food and pharmaceutical industry. Its new partner, DuPont Safety & Construction (DuPont), is a business unit of DowDuPont Specialty Products Division and the manufacturer of DuPont Tyvek brand thermal cargo covers.
As one of the leading companies in the field of pharmaceutical cold chain, the two companies will leverage their strengths to better define and meet the needs of customers worldwide as well as to develop transformational innovations in fields of temperature monitoring, shipment tracking, asset management and ‘smart’ data-driven services.
According to Christian Marx, Vice President and General Manager of Tyvek and Typar: “There is a strong strategic fit between DuPont and SkyCell and we see this as an important step in complementing our Tyvek Cargo Covers offering and expanding our market capability with high-performance solutions for an increasingly sophisticated pharmaceutical supply chain.”
Under the terms of the agreement, DuPont will gain access to SkyCell’s remote temperature-management solutions and expertise, and acquire marketing rights to the SkyCell portfolio of insulated shipping containers. The SkyCell containers will be marketed by DuPont alongside its Tyvek products enabling the market-leader in cargo covers to provide an unrivalled breadth of high-tech temperature-management solutions to discerning customers.
SkyCell, on the other hand, will be in a position to tap into the renowned technical resource of DuPont and will benefit from the DuPont global network especially in emerging markets and the Asia-Pacific region.
“We are excited to be entering into the next stage of our journey by collaborating with DuPont Tyvek”, said Richard Ettl, CEO of SkyCell. "With a shared vision of better leveraging data in the supply chain of sensitive pharmaceuticals, this partnership will help us play our part in ensuring that medicines, vaccines and other health-related treatments get to the final patients in a safe, sustainable and timely manner.”
(Press release/ran)
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