Phononic, Peltier partner to ‘patch up’ cold chain leaks

Solid-state cooling technology specialist Phononic recently partnered with startup company Peltier Technology in a bid to “patch up leaks in the cold chain” using Phononic’s Active Cooling Solutions (ACS) platform.

Approximately 20% of food and drugs, and up to 50% of vaccines, are wasted despite the “tens of billions of dollars” the world invests each year in the cold chain, the companies reported. Peltier’s modular solutions are designed to deliver refrigeration flexibility that can be easily integrated into operations that demand temperature integrity. From unlocking new shelves for chilled or frozen goods in the grocery aisle to enabling multi-temp automated warehouse solutions, Peltier aims to deliver “sustainable and purposeful” refrigeration to the cold supply chain.

“Peltier is excited to license and commercialize Phononic’s next generation of solid-state cooling technology,” Hanson Li, Peltier CEO and founder, said in a news release. “I’m excited to combine Peltier’s focus on solving temperature challenges with Phononic’s disruptive cooling platform. With an established ACS platform, supply chain, and customers, Peltier will continue to deliver timely solutions for our customers’ cooling challenges.”

Li, and entrepreneur and technology investor, founded Peltier with the mission to “reimagine the world’s approach to using cold” using the company’s refrigeration and IoT software solutions. Phononic’s ACS platform includes a combination of merchandising refrigerators and freezers, portable totes, integrated docking stations and IoT connectivity, last mile, and shipping and logistics design concepts. The platform already is helping to ensure protection of temperature-sensitive drugs and vaccines; delivering frozen/refrigerated perishable items at the point-of-sale; and enabling retailers to scale e-commerce online purchasing, Phononic said.

“We’re excited to partner with Hanson and his team at Peltier,” said Tony Atti, Phononic co-founder and CEO. “We developed the ACS platform as a solution to the needs of e-commerce, cold chain, retail/grocery, and consumer demand for innovating cooling. Licensing provides us the flexibility to leverage Peltier’s cold chain focus to support the market while we enable the future of AI through our datacenter platform.”