MedTech Sustainability by Design
MedTech Sustainability by Design is the podcast where the world's leading experts in medical device, sustainable plastics, eco-design, and regulatory compliance share their expertise. Each episode cuts through the complexity of plastic selection, regulatory changes, medical device engineering or sustainable plastics — so MedTech engineers and start-up teams can build devices that are good for the patient, good for the planet and profitable.
Your host, Lucas Pianegonda, is a globally recognized expert for plastics in medical technology. As founder of Gradical, a consultancy dedicated to making MedTech more sustainable with plastics, Lucas has guided dozens of medical device, IVD and pharma companies through some of the field's most complex material challenges. He asks the questions your R&D team would ask and gets you the answers you actually need.
Topics covered include:
• Sustainable plastics and eco-design strategies for MedTech
• Plastic selection for medical devices, in-vitro diagnostics and combination products
• Biocompatibility, sterilization and the medical grade concept
• Regulatory requirements and changes across global markets
• Recycling, medical waste, and the circular economy in healthcare
Is your team struggling to make your Device or Packaging more sustainable? Schedule a call with Lucas: https://calendly.com/lucas-pianegonda-gradical/discovery-call-gradical?
Learn more about Gradical and its services at www.gradical.ch
MedTech Sustainability by Design
Corporate Sustainability Made Easy with Matthew Yamatin, Thermo Fisher
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How does a company with 120,000 colleagues and 500,000 products put a number on its carbon footprint and actually act on it?
Matthew Yamatin is Global Director Sustainability at Thermo Fisher Scientific. He built the corporate sustainability program from scratch after joining in 2022 and now runs it across eight business groups.
In this episode:
- The scalable method Thermo Fisher uses to calculate product carbon footprints across half a million products
- Why mass balance is the only realistic path to non-fossil plastics in a regulated industry
- How biogenic carbon accounting actually works, and where the greenwashing debate sits
- Why bio-based plastics stay tied to the oil price, and what it takes to decouple them
- How to keep a sustainability program simple enough to move
If you work in sustainability, procurement, or product development in life sciences or medtech, this gives you a model you can copy.
Connect with Matthew: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewyamatin/
Thermo Fisher Scientific: https://www.thermofisher.com
00:00 How a 120,000-person company tackles sustainability at scale
01:16 The shampoo aisle problem
06:21 Inside Thermo Fisher
12:43 Scope 1, 2, 3 and the GHG Protocol
15:23 PCF vs CCF
17:50 The scalable PCF method
24:21 Why mass balance is the only scalable path
30:27 Biogenic carbon explained
40:59 Why bio-based costs more
44:10 Building a program from scratch
49:33 Find your North Star KPI
55:14 Closing
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You can also check our Youtube Channel with lots of free trainings and resources here: Lucas R. Pianegonda - YouTube
Website: www.gradical.ch