Nippon sets up Chicago facility
Nippon Express USA recently established NEX Pharma Solutions-Chicago, a temperature-controlled facility specializing in medical and pharmaceutical products, within its warehouse near Chicago O'Hare Airport.
The company, a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Nippon Express, says it also obtained Good Distribution Practice (GDP) certification for the facility, which commenced operations Sept. 1.
The U.S. Midwest, including Chicago, and Northeast are home to many pharmaceutical and medical equipment businesses, and these regions are expected to see rising demand for related logistics services, Nippon maintained. NE USA’s Chicago location is its largest air cargo hub, a gateway that operates regular shuttle trucks to transport cargo arriving at Chicago O’Hare Airport to company locations in other Midwestern states for delivery as early as the following morning.
On Sept. 1, NE USA completed the procedures necessary to make subsidiaries out of MD Logistics and MD Express, both U.S. companies specializing in logistics functions for medical and pharmaceutical products. These companies have four warehouses in neighboring Indiana, as well as one in Nevada (total floor area is approximately 1 million square feet) that offer storage, distribution processing and nationwide delivery services.
Connecting these to the newly upgraded Chicago hub will make it possible to link these warehouses to overseas operations while still maintaining the transport quality appropriate for medical and pharmaceutical products, the company said.
Strict GDP compliance and other quality standards are required worldwide when handing pharmaceuticals, and customers are demanding increasingly higher-quality standards for temperature control during transport/storage. NEX Pharma Solutions-Chicago will enable NE USA to provide safe and high-quality temperature-controlled transport services, and to meet customer needs with GDP-compliant facilities and operating frameworks.
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