S. WHITEHALL TWP., Pa.- On a cold, blustery Tuesday in Lehigh County, a company that considers itself an expert in the business of keeps things cold celebrated the opening of its new hub.
Peli BioThermal is shifting operations from an existing 63,000 square-foot facility at 795 Roble Road in Hanover Township to a new 90,100 square-foot building at 1215 Hausman Road in South Whitehall Township.
The company, based in Maple Grove, Minnesota, has had a presence in the Lehigh Valley for about a decade. It makes temperature-controlled packaging solutions in a number of sizes that allow for the safe transport of things like medicines, biologics and vaccines.
The new facility, which Peli BioThermal calls its Allentown Service Center, will provide conditioning, refurbishment, and logistics support for the company’s reusable Credo shippers…