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About Alex Berecz

Alex is a passionate Product Engineer. He completed his degree in Product Design at Swinburne University. After his degree, he went straight into a plastics designing and manufacturing company - until CoolPac found him. Now he's the lynchpin of our research and development program.

09/11/2020 by Alex Berecz

Maintaining temperatures for pharmaceutical logistics is all about temperature. Temperature is heat & cold-but what do they actually mean? Learn about “heat transfer” and how it accects Temperature Packing Systems for pharmaceutical cold chain logistics.

13/08/2019 by Alex Berecz

In our latest “Standards & Regulations Review”, CoolPacs Packing Engineer, Alex, looks at The WHO’s Annex 9; Supplement 13: “Qualification of Shipping Containers”. Is it worth your reading? Spend 4 minutes reading our summary to decide if its relevant to you.

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