Custom walk-in cold storage provides precision temperature control for largescale and highly specialized solutions for pharmacy applications like consolidated pharmacy service centers (CPSCs) and specialty pharmacy distribution centers.
Company Background
Helmer Scientific, now part of Life Science Solutions, a business unit of Trane Technologies, is a U.S.-based manufacturer and worldwide distributor of medical-grade cold storage and laboratory processing equipment. We have over 45 years of experience providing high-quality temperature-controlled environments, with our products being used in over 125 countries. Precise temperature performance and control are essential to the successful storage of pharmaceuticals, and Helmer cold storage products are designed and developed with these considerations.
Integration into the Life Science Solutions business has expanded our portfolio of innovative products and services to include large-scale reach-in cold storage for biopharmaceutical manufacturing, custom-engineered walk-in and drive-in refrigerators and freezers for healthcare and life science applications, and flexible service programs for maintenance and upkeep of equipment.
Helmer remains committed to developing innovative, reliable, and sustainable cold storage solutions from 5’3″ undercounter refrigerators and freezers to football field-sized walk-in and drive-in units for clinical applications including central pharmacies, specialty pharmacy distribution centers, consolidated pharmacy service centers, retail pharmacies, pharmacy logistics, and more.
Product Overview
Custom-engineered walk-in refrigerators and freezers provide precision temperature control for large-scale pharmacy applications like consolidated pharmacy service centers (CPSCs) and specialty pharmacy distribution centers, and unique or highly specialized applications like encapsulation of pharmacy dispensing robots and integration into pharmacy automation systems.
Custom-engineered walk-ins are completely flexible and can be used in both retrofits and new construction projects to fit extremely specific use cases and to overcome physical constraints that modular units cannot.
With temperature ranges from -80°C to +40°C, custom-engineered walk-in solutions can be designed for almost any use case. Walk-in refrigerators and freezers are commonly used for bulk storage of vaccines and medications and integrating cold-storage into pharmacy automation systems in central pharmacies and CPSCs, storage of high-value medications in specialty pharmacy distribution centers, and bulk storage of phase change material (PCM) or gel packs for shipment and distribution of medications.
Our team leverages deep-application expertise to design and deliver walk-in systems engineered to meet tight environmental specifications required to maintain cold-chain integrity. We partner throughout the project process for planning the solution, installation and setup, validation services, and training and technical support.
Whether building a new facility or upgrading an existing one, we partner to provide professional engineering, design, and drafting, and end-to-end planning and installation capabilities (engineering and project management). After installation, we provide scalable nationwide maintenance plans and remote preventative and predictive monitoring to ensure that your walk-in continues to operate at peak performance.
Additional Product Lines
If walk-ins are not feasible for your pharmacy’s footprint, Life Science Solutions also manufactures premium medical-grade reach-in cold storage.
Pharmacy GX Solutions refrigerators and freezers are designed and tested to deliver world-class temperature performance Helmer customers have come to trust from the leading manufacturer of pharmacy cold storage equipment.
Standard NSF/ANSI 456 Certification
All Pharmacy GX Solutions refrigerators include NSF/ANSI certification at no additional charge, ensuring that valuable vaccines are safely and properly stored.
Efficiency and Sustainability
In addition to pharmacy-specific design, GX Solutions refrigerators and freezers support sustainability initiatives while meeting the performance demands of a busy pharmacy.
- ENERGY STAR® certified.
- Utilize low-GWP natural hydrocarbon
refrigerants with zero ozone depleting potential. - Meet many energy standards including the EPA SNAP program.
Sizes for Any Footprint
From 5’3″ models that fit under ADA compliant countertops to 58’3″pass-thru units perfect for USP <797> sterile compounding environments, there’s a GX Solutions pharmacy refrigerator for any application and footprint.
