Ultracold Storage Solutions Preparing −80°C Monitored Storage Facility in Anaheim
ANAHEIM — Anaheim is a city in Orange County, California. Ultracold Storage Solutions announced on October 2 that it is preparing an ultra-low-temperature storage facility in Anaheim, Orange County, offering monitored storage down to −80°C. According to the company, the facility will serve laboratories, biopharmaceutical firms, hospitals and blood banks that need extreme cold storage for samples, reagents and biological products.
Demand for ultracold storage has grown since the COVID-19 pandemic, driven by mRNA vaccines and cell therapies, and providers have been expanding in life-science clusters. Anaheim sits in an Orange County economy with a sizable medical-device and biotech base, close to the Port of Los Angeles and major freeways — an attractive combination for cold-chain logistics.
The company said the site will have backup power and round-the-clock temperature alarms to meet pharmaceutical-grade compliance standards. The project is expected to bring warehouse, technical and operations jobs; the company will announce the opening date and capacity in due course.
Ultracold storage is unforgiving: a single power or equipment failure can destroy an entire inventory of samples and medicines, so facilities of this kind typically run dual power feeds, backup generators, liquid-nitrogen contingencies and redundant temperature probes, with continuous data logging for regulatory audits. Industry specialists say services are usually priced by pallet position and storage duration, and clients are mostly institutions preserving clinical-trial samples, cell lines and vaccine materials over long periods. Orange County hosts a dense cluster of medical-device, ophthalmic-drug and biotech companies, and Anaheim — a convention and tourism city with mature logistics — has drawn several cold-chain and third-party logistics investments in recent years. City economic-development officials welcomed the project as a good fit with the local life-science workforce.
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Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
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