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Envirotainer Leave a Legacy
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As we mark our 40th anniversary, we reflect not only on the milestones we’ve achieved, but on the legacy we continue to build - one rooted in innovation, sustainability, and global health equity.
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For 40 years we have led the industry, ensuring the safe and reliable transit of temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals. This year, we celebrate our 40th year as a market leader. A reason to reflect on our enduring legacy, and the legacies of the people who have shaped Envirotainer. We were really a startup with a visionary CEO at that point in time. We didn't think too much about commercial aspects. We were just promoting, rolling out a new solution to the market, pioneering, getting as much customers as we can. And that was an interesting ride, I can tell you. The big focus was on the Rely platform. It was still a development project, and that sort of, you could notice it everywhere. Our sales team was very small, with very flat hierarchies, so that each of us has worked in his region, like an entrepreneur, with empowerment to make decisions. So we were sitting in the same boat, and this has really strengthened our team spirit, and we were part of the success story of today. It was a much smaller operation, obviously, headquartered in a farm outside of Uppsala. We were focusing, I was 100% focused on helping customers succeed with the dry ice shipment, so helping them calculate dry ice. The company was quite small. APAC was actually just starting to reallocate from Australia into Singapore. Well, we had a station, but it was in Sydney, Australia. There was a husband and wife duo who ran it, along with one other employee. So that was our APAC team. Our office then was a farmhouse, and it was located in a place called Lagga. Usually we would stay at Uppsala, and then we had to take a taxi to Laga. And because it was so remote, the taxi driver lost his way, and we ended up circling a few times in barn fields, you know, with small little red wooden houses, and I still got pictures to show. When we had Ivana Trump's wedding cake in one of our containers. I have created some of my closest friendships during my time at a retainer. And at that time, there was not really Uber in China, so I didn't know what to do, but of course, the customer then kindly picked me up on their electric bike and just drove me to the next meeting, and got everything sorted. Such an impact. And we've had an impact on my life personally, so my father's got medicated cardiac catheters in his heart that were shipped in our containers. My fondest memory, working for a container since 2017, is the pandemic. It's a period you all of us will remember. It was a very stressful situation for all of us in the supply chain industry, especially with respect to pharmaceuticals. Me, together with the team at the retainer, we delivered more than 1.2 billion doses of vaccines on a global basis. And of course, the company has grown a lot since then. It was much smaller. But I think the drive and the vision that people have here is still the same. And I mean, that's what I love. What excites me about the future of Envrotainer is our products. I've been working with our products since I started here, so I'm very excited about our new range of products in the Relay family. And they generate a lot of interesting data, you know, every second. And there's a lot of great things we can do with that data. As well as the addition of all the products in the va-Q-tec range that are very exciting, taking on something completely new. The digital services can really and will make the difference because when we help our customers in the future even more than we just do it already today. We are operating in the pharmaceuticals industry. We're part of the global supply chain. We know that pharmaceuticals are evolving every single day. And I'm really excited to be part of that development because we as a market leader, our ambition is to remain the market leader. So great opportunities ahead of us really to follow the industry, making sure that we stay on top of being the best and most preferred supplier in our industry. As we move into this next decade, we invite our customers, partners and network to join us and be part of the evolution of our industry. Leave a legacy with us.