March 2015 Newsletter: Client News: "Warmilu Experiences Growth and Recognition"

Warmilu has developed an affordable, instant, non-electric heat technology that provides safe warmth on demand. The warmth packs are convenient, reusable, and microwave friendly, in the form of heat warming packs targeted to the first responder and arthritis patient communities as well as in the form of IncuBlankets, alternative incubators that spread warmth to save the lives of preterm infants at risk for hypothermia. Warmilu is a 2014 winner of Macomb Pitch and now has an office on-site at the Macomb-OU INCubator.

The Warmilu team recently received one of their first large orders (30 packs) from an inbound lead, Helping Area Response Teams (HART) Huron Valley. HART has chosen Warmilu warming packs to assist with their mission of providing on-scene food and support services to Washtenaw County’s emergency responders. HART is a volunteer-based program supported by Washtenaw County community members and coordinated by Peace Lutheran Church of Ann Arbor. The Warmilu team wholeheartedly embraces the HART Huron Valley mission and couldn’t be prouder to be a provider of their warming packs.

In addition, Warmilu is evaluating a potential partnership with Little Sparrows Technologies, led by Dr. Gary Gilbert, Little Sparrows Technologies COO, Deputy ACOS of VA Boston Healthcare System, and associate professor at Harvard Medical School. Gilbert is evaluating the Warmilu warming technology for the Little Sparrows’ phototherapy infant blankets, which are used to treat jaundice but currently do not have an infant warming component. In addition, Gilbert is interested in engaging Warmilu's expertise in designing phase-change materials for an additional component in their phototherapy blanket.

Warmilu is getting wide recognition for their recent accomplishments, including in the most recent issue of Xconomy Detroit, in the article “Ann Arbor's Warmilu Hopes to Save Preemies with High-Tech Blankets.” The Warmilu team will also be showcased in an upcoming 2015 segment, “Saving Lives with On Demand Warming Technology,” produced by Worldwide Business with kathy Ireland.^®

Heat is not necessarily the answer when it comes to bringing relief to the aches and pains of life, warding off chilly surroundings or saving the lives of infants threatened by hypothermia. Driven by their own life experiences, the engineers and designers of Warmilu recognized the need for a life sustaining source of warmth that does not require electricity. Warmilu’s innovative, patented-technology warming pack starts as a liquid and then changes to a solid in seconds, initiated by pressing a metal disk. The resulting warmth lasts for hours and is sustainable, as it can be reused simply through 15 minutes of boiling or six to 12 minutes in a microwave. For more information, visit warmilu.com.