Candor Expedite launched a cold chain division.
Candor Food Chain combines the company’s national shipping services with a fully reusable cold packaging solution that allows pallet and box-sized refrigerated and frozen shipments to go by regular transport and stay refrigerated or frozen for up to nine days.
“I've witnessed the challenges shippers face in the frozen and refrigerated market. The excessive expenditure, along with issues like damaged products and delayed deliveries, is alarming,” says Nicole Glenn, founder and CEO of Candor Expedite. “We’re excited to bring this new, unique technology to the food industry – reducing costs, eliminating claims, and offering real-time temperature and location monitoring,” she added.
Key takeaways:
- Candor Food Chain partnered with Cool Chain, a European technology provider who works with pharmaceutical companies.
- By consolidating deliveries of perishable and dry goods in one truck that supports three different temperatures —refrigerated, frozen and ambient — food manufacturers, distributors and retailers can eliminate the costs of multiple deliveries across the United States. Temperatures range from 10-70°F.
- Features include temperature readings and GPS tracking with live feeds on the products’ temperature and location.
- In addition to reducing carbon and refrigerant emissions, the boxes are reusable and contain no harmful toxins, no cardboard and no extra insulation.
- A logistics expert is on hand to monitor any changes in the temperature and respond accordingly.
- Shippers can use any mode of transportation with Food Chain’s packaging, including local distribution center to stores; regional; and over-the-road capabilities.
“Our customers feel like heroes because they now have a way to cut out a large amount of wasted money, energy, and packaging while feeling good about meeting environmental goals,” says Tyler Wiard, director of business development of Candor Expedite and Food Chain. “We’re a proud, woman-owned business which shippers appreciate as they strive to meet diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) goals,” he added.
