Escort Cold Chain Solutions and CAEN RFID cooperate in the cold-chain market

Gordola, Switzerland – Viareggio, Italy April 22th 2010 – Escort Cold Chain Solutions SA, a company specialized in the distribution of temperature monitors and solution for life science and food industries and CAEN RFID, leading provider of electronic instrumentation for radio frequency identification, signed a global agreement to develop the market of RFID based cold-chain management solutions.

 

The aim of the collaboration is to develop the market of track and trace solution combined with temperature monitoring, offering a complete end-to-end visibility of biotech and perishable goods during the transportation.

 

“When we see the speed technology is going today I cannot imagine that cold chain monitoring, so critical for human well being and safety, cannot profit of such developments. CAEN RFID products are the state of the art in this field.” says Alex Guillen, CEO at Escort Cold Chain Solutions SA and formerly Director for Commercial Operations Public Markets at Novartis Vaccines, ”Our customer base was waiting for something new, cold chain management that is seamless, affordable and high tech and now we are able to satisfy them.”

 

“The experience of Escort Cold Chain Solutions SA in the life science and food industry is crucial for an effective approach to those markets” says Stefano Coluccini, CAEN RFID's Business Development Manager for the Cold Chain Solutions “and together we can open the new era of tracking solutions for the cold-chain. We are convinced that the future of cold chain monitoring and track and trace, including fighting counterfeit, will converge in common solutions.”

 

CAEN RFID is a leading Italian company in the design and production of RFID UHF readers and tags. CAEN RFID was the first company in Europe to produce and distribute UHF readers. Its active involvement in the EPC Global, AIM Europe and ETSI work groups have allowed it to provide RFID readers and tags which are in the vanguard of existing technology. Amongst these the easy2read^© readers/writers have been designed to permit the use of one single identification technology for reading either at close range or at a range of several meters and the semi-passive easy2log^© tag can be used for the monitoring and recording of temperatures of perishable products in transit (such as food or chemical/pharmaceutical products in cold storage).

 

Escort Cold Chain Solutions SA was established in 2007 to supply Escort Data Logging Systems exclusively for the cold chain market in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, India and South America and works with customers to develop for their customer new solutions particular to their own needs. ECCS has its own offices in Switzerland, France , India and cooperates with specialized distributors for Life Science and Food industry. ECCS provides end to end temperature and humidity monitoring solutions for shipping and also wireless and real time monitoring for warehouses and thermo mapping.