
Gradical Podcast - The Podcast about Plastics in Medical Technology
Gradical is the plastics expert for medical technology. We help medical technology companies to select the right plastic for their application. This takes into account technical suitability, regulatory requirements and sustainability aspects. The Gradical podcast covers all topics relating to plastics in medical technology. Sustainability, sterilization, the medical grade concept, biocompatibility and many other topics await you in this podcast. The host Lucas Pianegonda is a plastics expert for medical technology and asks the guest experts the right questions.
For more information on gradical and it's services visit www.gradical.ch
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Episodes
12 episodes
Dr. Chris DeArmitt - Plastic Myths
Dr. Chris DeArmitt is a world-class Plastic consultant and independent environmental expert. Chris had a stellar career in the plastics industry at firms such as BASF before starting his own consultancy Ph...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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46:54

Dr. Jenci Kurja - Sustainable Growth
Jenci Kurja is an expert for sustainable growth and plastics. He hold s PhD from Eindhoven University of Technology in Polymer Science and had a stellar career in the plastic industry for the last 25 years. First at Milliken & Company and t...
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Episode 11
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50:34

Monir El Azzouzzi - Clinical Evaluation
Monir El Azzouzzi is the founder and CEO of Easy medical device, a swiss based regulatory affairs consulting firm. Monir hosts his own podcast – the easy medical device podcast – where I have had the honor of being a guest on
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Episode 10
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48:10

Julian Lotz - Biobased Medical Grades
Julian Lotz is cofounder and CEO of BIOVOX a german start-up focused on making medical grade plastics more sustainable. He is an expert for sustainable medical grades and especially for biobased grades. In our discussion Julian elaborates on en...
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Episode 9
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48:39

Mihajlo Milenkovic & Giuseppe Fiandaca - Medical Grade Plastic Market Report
This special episode we will have two guests Mihajlo Milenkovic and Giuseppe Fiandaca. Mihajlo is principal at The Strategists network a strategy consulting firm focused on medical technology. Giuseppe Fiandaca is Cofounder and Managing Directo...
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Episode 8
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52:42

Dr. Stefan Rössler - Mass Balance Approach
Dr. Stefan Rössler is an expert for the massbalance approach and auditor for massbalance certifications at TÜV-SÜD. After his PhD in chemical engineering he worked a couple of years in industry as a business and technical consultant before he j...
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Episode 7
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58:12

Dr. Vinny Sastri - Quality Management in Medical Device
Vinny Sastri is an expert in quality management and medical grade plastics. He holds a PhD in Chemistry from the Rutgers University. After a stellar career at BASF, Honeywell and GE-Plastics he founded his own consultancy where he focuses on qu...
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Episode 6
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46:39

Kim Laursen - Compounding for Medical Applications
Kim Laursen is the Managing Director of Melitek A/S a medical compounder based in Denmark. With his nearly 30 year of experience he is a true expert in the field of medical compounding. In our discussion we talk about what advantages a compound...
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Episode 5
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46:47

Jonathan Demierre - Eco-Design
Jonathan Demierre is an expert for eco-design and lead the team Sustainability Engineering at Helbling. He holds a PhD in Energy Systems from the EPFL Lausanne and worked at the Sustainable Engineering Lab of Columbia university in New York bef...
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Episode 4
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47:13

Steve Maxson - MedTech Extrusion
Steve Maxson is an expert for medical extrusion and currently Innovation and Business Developer at US-Extruders. He has over 20 years of experience in the medical extrusion business and hosts his own podcast
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Episode 3
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45:02

Patrick Kothe - Medical Device Sales
Our todays guest is Patrick “Pat” Kothe is an expert in sales and marketing of medical devices. He is the CEO of EM Device a medical device start-up based in Austin Texas, helping doctors better treat abscesses. He had a stellar career in Sales...
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Episode 2
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1:00:55

Anja Gottschalk - Polyolefins for Medical Technology
Our guest today is Anja Gottschalk, she is an application developer for medical technology and an expert in medical grade polyolefins. She is an member of the VDI's "Plastics in Medical Technology" committee and was involved in the development ...
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Episode 1
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47:56
