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SUSTAINABILITY
SUSTAINABILITY
Maike Wolf
Gerresheimer
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN OF A DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE FOR BIOPHARMACEUTICALS
Maike Wolf and Marie Stockton discuss how sustainability is a fundamental strategic priority for Gerresheimer. They also highlight how eco-design principles have been applied to the development of an on-body injector for subcutaneous delivery of biopharmaceuticals.
EXPERT VIEW
John Burke
TACKLING DESIGN CHALLENGES IN EMERGENCY-USE AUTOINJECTORS
John Burke considers the challenges that manufacturers need to overcome when designing emergency-use autoinjectors.
EXPERT VIEW
Giorgio Sardo
RETHINKING PLASTIC: HOW ECO-FRIENDLY DESIGN IS DRIVING SUSTAINABLE CHANGE
Giorgio Sardo discusses sustainable material selection and the results of tests comparing the performance of sustainable bio-based plastic resins with their fossil-based equivalents.
INTERVIEW
Julien Storz
Aptar Pharma
WHY SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING MATTERS IN PHARMA’S CIRCULAR APPROACH – APTAR PHARMA’S FUTURITY PLATFORM LEADS THE WAY
Julien Storz discusses the importance of sustainable packaging in the pharma industry and introduces the company’s Futurity platform and its role in product circularity.
EXPERT VIEW
Will Davies
DESIGNING SUSTAINABILITY INTO PHARMACEUTICAL DEVICES
Will Davies discusses in detail how to address the challenges of designing sustainability into pharmaceutical devices.
EXPERT VIEW
Tim Wooller
SUSTAINABILITY IN DRUG DELIVERY: HOW DO WE GET THERE?
Tim Wooller discusses the urgent need to transition away from disposable models of drug delivery device design and move towards reusables, providing insights into the reasons why and the methods by which this can be achieved.
EXPERT VIEW
Julien Tremblin
IMPROVING RECYCLABILITY IN DRUG DELIVERY
Julien Tremblin looks at the recyclability challenges facing the drug delivery market and considers how companies can enhance the recyclability of their packaging and devices.
SUSTAINABILITY
Sandrine Coutarel
Nemera
COMMITTED TO SUSTAINABILITY!
Sandrine Coutarel looks at the company’s sustainability road map and the steps being taken to achieve its aims.
SUSTAINABILITY
Chris Baron
Aptar Pharma
NAVIGATING pMDI REFORMULATION 2.0
Chris Baron and William Ganley examine possible responses to the environmental impact of pressurised metered dose inhalers use and consider alternative inhaler types, with a focus on the strategies and support that can accelerate the development of the next generation of pMDIs.
EXPERT VIEW
Mark Parry
CONSIDERATIONS WHEN SWITCHING FROM CURRENT pMDI PROPELLANTS TO NEW LOWER-GWP PROPELLANTS
Mark Parry discusses the considerations that need to be made when switching from current pressurised metered dose inhaler propellants to new alternatives with lower global warming potential, including formulation, regulatory and analytical standpoints.
EXPERT VIEW
Cormac O'Prey
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN & MANUFACTURE IN MEDICAL DEVICES: WHERE TO START
Cormac O’Prey discusses the challenges and advantages of implementing circular economy principles in the medical device sector, with a particular consideration of the difficulty of making remanufacturing work for high-volume, low-value devices.
SUSTAINABILITY
Dr Peter Hirst
Recipharm
WHY PARTNERSHIPS ARE KEY TO A MORE SUSTAINABLE PHARMA INDUSTRY
Peter Hirst argues that careful selection of partners and better collaboration throughout the supply chain are key to optimising the sustainability of the pharmaceutical industry.
SUSTAINABILITY
Phil Seeney
PA Consulting
MAKING SUSTAINABILITY BY DESIGN THE LINTEL OF SUSTAINABLE INHALER DEVELOPMENT
Phil Seeney, Philip Winkworth and Craig Nelson provide an insight into sustainability developments in the pharmaceutical industry, with a focus on inhalables.
SUSTAINABILITY
Dr Iain Simpson
Phillips Medisize
CONSIDERING THE SUSTAINABILITY IMPACT OF CONNECTED INHALERS IN THE TREATMENT OF ASTHMA
Iain Simpson and Vinith Bhandari consider the sustainability impact of device connectivity specific to asthma inhalers through the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
SUSTAINABILITY
Matthias Birkhoff
Aptar Pharma
SUSTAINABILITY MEASURES ARE THE KEY TO MEETING ESG COMMITMENTS
Matthias Birkhoff and Christophe Marie discuss the advances Aptar Pharma has made in delivering on its sustainability objectives.
SUSTAINABILITY
Sebastian Gerner
Ypsomed
YPSOMED’S TWO-STEP APPROACH TO ACHIEVING NET ZERO
Sebastien Gerner discusses Ypsomed’s approach to achieving its net zero objectives, both looking back at Step One of the company’s approach and outlining the upcoming Step Two.
EXPERT VIEW
Alastair Willoughby
THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN LOGISTICS & SUPPLIER SELECTION
Alastair Willoughby looks at the factors affecting sustainability when considering global supply chain logistics and supplier selection.
EXPERT VIEW
Catriona Eldridge
CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY: TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE?
Catriona Eldridge and Omar Shah discuss the findings of a recent investigative assessment into the environmental impact of healthcare products, and consider whether or not the pharmaceutical industry is doing enough to combat climate change.
SUSTAINABILITY
Stefano Vicenzetto
Flex
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN FOR MEDICAL DEVICES
How do you meet environmental and sustainability objectives when designing medical devices? And what design considerations enable the technical cycles, known as the 4R loops of circular economy: reuse, repair, remanufacture and recycle? Stefano Vicenzetto explores the Flex approach to design for environment for medical devices.
WEARABLES
Thomas Mayer
Sonceboz
ACCELERATING DEVELOPMENT OF SUBCUTANEOUS DELIVERY OF LARGE-VOLUME BIOLOGICS
Tom Mayer discusses how Sonceboz’s vial-based on-body injector – the LVI-V – can expedite the launch of large-volume SC delivery of biologics by leveraging existing primary container technology, reducing associated risks and total cost of ownership.
INJECTION
Dr Fred Metzmann
Haselmeier
EXCELLENCE THROUGH SIMPLICITY: PICCOJECT™ AUTOINJECTOR PLATFORM
Fred Metzmann and Chris Muenzer discuss the simplicity of the PiccoJect™ autoinjector platform and the company's commitment to sustainability.
EXPERT VIEW
Rob Udale
ARE GOVERNMENTS BANNING THE MOST ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY INHALER?
Rob Udale, Catriona Eldridge and Omar Shah assess the assertion that pMDIs are the most environmentally damaging of the available pulmonary drug delivery device archetypes, and explore some of the intricacies not accounted for in the public discourse surrounding pMDIs.
SUSTAINABILITY
Fran Pencliffe
Cambridge Design Partnership
SUSTAINABILITY: WHAT CAN THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR LEARN FROM CONSUMER DESIGN?
Fran Penrose considers the lessons the healthcare sector can draw from the fast-moving consumer sector when designing for sustainability and asks, “Can we go even further?”
SUSTAINABILITY
Christoffer Thomsen
Technolution
SUSTAINABILITY IN MEDTECH DEVELOPMENT: AN ITERATIVE APPROACH BASED ON ECODESIGN AND LIFE CYCLE SCREENINGS
Life Cycle Assessments are a valuable but time-consuming and, ultimately, retrospective method for assessing MedTech product sustainability. Christoffer Thomsen and Peter Werner Hansen dive into an iterative and data-driven approach to more sustainable MedTech development based on Ecodesign and Life Cycle Screenings.
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