TCP products go by many names including some of the following: Gel packs, ice packs, phase change. The products that TCP designs and manufactures can also be called Gel packs or ice packs. Some people call these phase change materials or phase change. -20c phase change and 2-8 phase change materials are typical temperature range. Gel pouches and ice pouches are low temperature refrigerants. 20 below refrigerants, 20 below gel packs are used for even lower temperature applications. Refrigerated gel packs are reusable gel packs. These reusable icepacks are also reusable phase change materials. Both are non toxic gel packs and are food grade gel packs. Some people call them food grade ice packs or food grade gel pouch. TCP manufactures these items using the brand names cryo gel, cryo gel blue, cryogel 2, cryogel, cryogel blue, no sweat laminate pouch, no sweat gel pack. Another type of item is a saddlebag gel pack or mat style gel packs.

Reusable shipping containers are shippers designed as food shippers and frozen food shippers. Pharmaceutical shippers and clinical trial shippers are shippers for clinical trials and infectious shipments. Materials for these include EPS, polystyrene, expanded polystyrene, eps packaging and eps shippers. These fabricated shipping containers are fabricated boxes or cartons. Molded shippers, molded containers and molded boxes use shipping cartons for temperature sensitive shipping In total these items are called temperature controlled packaging. Cold chain and cold chain shippers are becoming a more common way of discussing insulated shippers and insulated containers. These insulated boxes can be insulated pallet shipper containers, pallet shippers, insulated pallet shipper, insulated pallet shipper container.

Thermal shippers and thermal shipping boxes are a growing area for thermal packaging in general. Styrofoam packaging and styrofoam coolers use a brand name for EPS.

A Pre qualified shipping containers is a pre qualified carton, This can be a 24 hour pre qualified shipper. A 48 hour pre qualified shipper or carton are also available. Gaining popularity are the 72 hour pre qualified shippers thermal shippers. Some customers are starting to look for a 5 day pre validated shipper, also known as Kodiak container and 5 day hour pre validated boxes.

Reusable shipping containers can be blood bank shippers and insulated blood shippers. These insulated blood containers and insulated blood boxes have blood insulated shipping cartons. A room temperature blood platelet shipper system, blood platelet shipper carton can be a pre-validated temperature controlled shipper with pre-validated temperature controlled packaging.

TCP also supplies reusable shipping containers, totes, plastic totes, tote inserts, shipping bins, food protective packaging, automotive protective packaging, electronic protective packaging, thermoformed packaging, thermoformed trays, thermoformed plastic packaging and thermoformed plastic trays.

Temperature protective packaging can also include temperature indicators, temperature monitors and reusable temperature monitors. Chemical indicators such as the coldmark chemical indicator, warmmark chemical indicator are also popular. A 21cfr part 11 compliant indicator is required by some customers. The xi3 electronic temperature sensor is such a model. A battery powered humidity monitor, battery powered temperature monitor is available with the rh temp 101humidity and temperature monitor. They are disposable temperature monitors

TCP is a Testing Services and ISTA test lab. ISTA testing services are ISTA certified as a ISTA certified test lab. ISTA testing services are for cold chain engineering services, temperature controlled engineering services. Cold chain engineering testing services can be used as validation engineering services and validation testing services. Shock testing services, shock testing and vibration testing services are also known as package testing, drop impact testing, drop impact testing services, package design and development, pallet shipper testing, pallet shipper testing.