SEL develops vaccine ultra-cold storage system

PULLMAN — Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories has developed a specialized temperature monitoring and logging system for ultra-cold environments required to store new coronavirus vaccines.

The idea for the SEL-2411TM Temperature Monitor Digital Data Logger came about two weeks ago when Moscow’s Gritman Medical Center spokesman Kane Francetich contacted SEL. He was in search of two ultra-low temperature monitors for the freezers that will store the incoming vaccines, but found they were on back order.

“When we received the email from Kane asking if we had a product that could help, we thought ab...