Posted on 8/16/2021
Before late 2020, few people outside medical, industrial and academic circles had heard of the ultra-low temperature (ULT) freezers. When Pfizer announced its Covid-19 vaccine would require storage of -70° C, a newfound interest in ultracold storage started to rise. How do these super freezers work? What are the challenges in producing them? Besides vaccine conservation, what are their other applications?
This article was simultaneously published in DirectIndustry e-magazine.
Dusty Tenney, CEO of US-based Stirling Ultracold, which manufactures three sizes of ULT freezers, operating within -20°C to -86°C, for life science and biopharma research, said:
“As recently observed in Forbes, the Covid-19 pandemic will be remembered as the ‘great accelerator’ of technological tr...