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Timeline
| 1990 |
Sensitech creates the cold chain
industry’s first accurate, reliable, robust and affordable electronic
temperature monitor designed for single-use, “out-sourced” cold
chain programs. |
| 1992 |
The company launches its TempTale
2 datalogger (“the hockey puck”) in the Life Sciences
vertical with the implementation of a global program monitoring vaccine
shipments. This is followed by programs designed to monitor and protect
blood, tissue, and a variety of Life Science products across all temperature
ranges, Sensitech today supports 18 of the world’s top 20 Pharmaceutical
companies and a rapidly growing number of biotechnology companies.
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| 1995 |
Sensitech introduces its next-generation
TempTale 3 product.
The company launches its Food Retail vertical with implementation
of a US-based, cross country monitoring program focused on produce
and
designed to support both retailers and grower/shippers. Sensitech
today supports programs in produce, meat, poultry, seafood, deli,
floral,
dairy, bakery, and chocolate for dozens of retail programs globally.
With funding received from a major pharmaceutical customer, Sensitech
designs and launches the first global cold chain data-capture system.
Critical condition
information from monitors can be collected and assessed in minutes, expediting
the product pricing, acceptance and release process and driving supply chain
velocity. |
| 1998 |
Sensitech launches its TT4/LCD monitor, allowing
for the instant reading of sophisticated alarm and alert information
by personnel on the loading dock.
The company launches its third major
vertical, Food Services, with cold chain monitoring programs designed
for Fast Food, Quick Serve,
Casual Dining, Fast Food and institutional customers.
Sensitech
is named to the Inc. 500 and Deloitte and Touch Fast 500 as one
of the fastest growing private companies in America,
and the fifth fastest growing
private technology company in New England |
| 1999 |
Sensitech launches its
web-enabled ColdStream Cold Chain Manager application; the first
global solution designed to capture, archive and allow secure access
to environmental data.
Sensitech is named for a second year to the
Inc. 500 and Deloitte and Touch Fast 500. |
| 2000 |
Sensitech is named to the Deloitte and
Touch Fast 500 for an unprecedented third straight year as one of
the country’s
fastest growing technology companies.
Ryan Instruments, founded in
1921 and the original cold chain instrument company, is acquired.
This
expands Sensitech’s product line to include the industry’s
finest in-transit strip chart recorder, allowing customers “one stop
shopping” depending
upon the data-intensity of their monitoring needs. By acquiring Ryan, Sensitech
establishes a West Coast presence and inherits a world class domestic manufacturing
facility for strip chart products.
Sensitech launches its Professional Services
practice, still one of the company’s
fastest growing competencies and now actively engaged in cold chain consulting
and reporting engagements around the world |
| 2002 |
Sensitech became a member of the MIT Auto-ID
Center, now part of EPC Global. The company launched a series of information-based
solutions, including its Cold Chain Audit and Thermal Mapping products
designed to adapt statistical process control methodology to the cold
chain. |
| 2004 |
Cox Technologies, another of the cold chain
industry’s pre-eminent instrument suppliers, in acquired.
Sensitech
goes direct in Europe and South America, establishing leadership
centers in Amsterdam and Santiago
The company establishes a partnership
with Ember Technologies and pilots its first radio frequency product,
establishing TempTale
RF pilots in all three of
its major verticals.
Sensitech engages with several large third-party logistics
providers, supporting worldwide cold chain product flows. |
| 2005 |
Sensitech launches its “Track and Trace” (now
Cold Chain Visibility) practice, combining location tracking with cold
chain monitoring and providing powerful new analytics to drive improvement
in cold chains processes. |
| 2006 |
The company is acquired by Carrier Corp.,
pairing the leader in cold chain visibility with the premier global
cold chain company. |
| 2007 |
Sensitech takes a direct
presence in Brazil, India and China and creates new products around
emerging EPC Global standards, and launches its new worldwide database
solution. |
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