- It has more than 10,500m3 of spaces certified by the Colombian Ministry of Health and INVIMA.
- MEGA FREEZE expands Solistica’s cold chain capabilities.
- It operates 24 hours a day/seven days a week to supply more than 12 thousand delivery points, offering response times for vital emergencies in main cities in less than 2 hours.
Bogotá, Colombia. May 10, 2021. – Solistica, a FEMSA company, developed MEGA FREEZE, a new and one of the largest in Colombia center for the pharmaceutical products’ cold chain, with the purpose of bringing logistics services closer to the pharmaceutical industry so that the population in Colombia can get medications on time and in the best conditions.
MEGA FREEZE added an additional 10,500 m3 of space to the capacities, reaching more than 20,000 m3 of spaces fully certified by the Colombian Ministry of Health and the National Institute for Food and Drug Surveillance (INVIMA). The center also integrates in the same place the storage, conditioning and transport services of the cold chain, which streamlines the processes to provide a faster solution to any emergency.
The center, located in the industrial zone of Montevideo and close to the airport, operates 24 hours a day/seven days a week, and currently has more than 280 receivers, more than 3,600 pallet positions and 44 thousand gels to supply more than 12 thousand delivery points, with better response times.
The facilities comply with all the standards in the handling of pharmaceutical products, which allow clients in this sector a comprehensive control of their products, streamline the flow of their operations and maintain the entire cold chain in perfect temperature conditions: the appropriate temperature conditions from 2°C to 8°C can be controlled and validated throughout the whole service in the processes of storage, transport, conditioning, management of supplies and packaging.
An example of this is the service offered for marking, labeling, packaging and assembly of orders in controlled temperature spaces to keep the cold chain of pharmaceutical products in perfect condition. Likewise, Solistica offers the transportation service with a refrigerated and qualified fleet that allows products to be delivered on time and within its validity, keeping temperatures within safe ranges to avoid expiration dates.
Solistica has 9 distribution centers spread throughout Colombia, which reduce the response time to respond more quickly to emergencies in the country. MEGA FREEZE is an example of Solistica’s focus on security, innovation and flexibility to adapt to the needs of its customers and design the ideal configuration to solve all kinds of logistics challenges in any industry.
About FEMSA
FEMSA is a leading company that creates economic and social value through companies and institutions and seeks to be the best employer and neighbor of the communities where it has a presence. It participates in retail trade through FEMSA Comercio, which includes the Proximity Division and of which OXXO, a chain of small format stores, is a part of. It also has a Health Division that includes pharmacies and related activities as well as a Fuel Division that operates the service stations chain, OXXO Gas. In the beverage industry it operates Coca-Cola FEMSA, public bottler of Coca-Cola products; in the beer sector, it is a shareholder of HEINEKEN, a company present in more than 70 countries. Additionally, through FEMSA’s Strategic Businesses Business Unit, it offers logistics services, point-of-sale refrigeration solutions and plastics solutions to FEMSA companies and external clients. FEMSA also participates in the cleaning products and consumables distribution industry in the United States. Through its Business Units, it employs approximately 320 thousand employees in 13 countries. FEMSA is a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability MILA Pacific Alliance Index, the FTSE4Good Emerging Index and the Mexican Stock Exchange Sustainable IPC, among other indices that evaluate its performance in sustainability.
About Solistica
Solistica is the Latin American 3PL logistic solution integrator for the world, with presence in Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Brasil and the United States. It offers supply chain solutions through FTL Transport, LTL Distribution, Warehousing, Value Added Services, Multimodal Solutions, International Logistics and Vehicle Maintenance through its subsidiary Mecanica Tek. Its focus on security, innovation and flexibility, and its capacity to adapt to the evolution of its more than 4,000 clients, enables Solistica to design the ideal configuration to solve any logistical challenge across all industries. It is a FEMSA company that creates economic and social value by operating a sustainable business strategy, based in its culture and values, with more than 21,000 employees.