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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
Unknown Host hosts MedTech Sustainability by Design, a science show with 48 episodes published.
Why are most catheters still glued and heat-shrunk together by hand? Simone Maccagnan from Gimac International makes the case for microextrusion: single continuous parts, controlled molecular weight and crystallinity, an
What is the most sustainable catheter we could design from scratch today? Damian Carr, founder of Eyedea MedTech Education and author of the Catheter R&D Handbook, joins me for a full case study. We break down how cathet
Can bio-based plastic move past the nice story and scale in regulated MedTech? Tim Wagler is Commercial Director EMEA for Braskem's I'm green bio-based portfolio, polyethylene made from sugarcane instead of fossil feedst
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 cor
"Do not do ego-design." A professor told Bart Verleije that in school, and it shaped how he has built medical devices ever since. Bart is Commercial Director at Voxdale, a Belgian design and engineering firm, with more t
Most sustainable plastics cost two to six times more than oil-based alternatives. That's why you don't see them everywhere. Alex Braun decided to fix that. Alex is the Chairman of Pillar Ltd, an Israeli industrial R&D co
Over a billion autoinjectors are used every year. Almost all of them are single-use. Almost all of that plastic gets incinerated. John Palmer-Felgate spent 30 years designing medical devices. At some point, he decided to
A lot of MedTech companies treat CAPA as a compliance exercise. They open a record, close a record, and survive the audit. Georg Digel has spent his career watching what happens when that's the only goal… and it's not pr
This episode is brought to you by Vanguard, a company specializing in remanufacturing single-use medical devices to as-good-as-new condition. A device labeled "single-use" gets thrown away after one patient. That makes s
Bastien Manuel recognized that sustainability was inevitable for most medical plastic manufacturers. At elmplastic, he proactively established his business with that future in mind. He's Commercial Director at elm-plasti
This episode is brought to you by Synera Advisory. Most MedTech founders treat FDA clearance like it's the finish line. Jordan Morrison has an entire bookshelf of cleared devices that can't sell to prove it isn't. She's
This episode is brought to you by FKuR Kunststoff GmbH, a leading producer and distributor of bio-based and compostable plastics. "Recycling is just an extension of linearity." Patrick Zimmermann posts the same sentence
If you want to make your medical devices more sustainable, let's talk—: https://calendly.com/lucas-pianegonda-gradical/discovery-call-gradical Most MedTech founders build the wrong device because they skip the steps that
If you want to make your medical devices more sustainable, let's talk: https://calendly.com/lucas-pianegonda-gradical/discovery-call-gradical What if you could cut the time it takes to develop a medical device in half? I
If you're a MedTech company struggling to make your devices more sustainable, let’s talk—BOOK A CALL HERE: https://calendly.com/lucas-pianegonda-gradical/discovery-call-gradical What if the plastic in your current medica
This episode is sponsored by Sterilis Solutions: https://sterilissolutions.com "How much is medical waste actually costing us?" is one of the questions hospitals are finally asking out loud. The problem is, most faciliti
"Is this material going to be biocompatible?" is one of the most commonly asked questions in medical device development. The problem is, there's no such thing as a biocompatible material. In this episode, I speak with Ma
Chemical recycling is often presented as a silver bullet. But is it actually viable for medical-grade plastics? In this episode, I speak with Reinier Grimbergen , CTO of Blue Circle Olefins, about what chemical recycling
Why does it take so long to bring a medical device to market? And what can we actually do about it? Spencer Jones is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of XO MedTech and MedTech Vendors. In this episode, he breaks dow
If you are building or scaling a medical device, sterilization problems will catch up with you. Usually later in the process than you want. In this episode, I speak with Manuel Grandy, Consultant and Managing Partner at
Chris DeArmitt
PhD, materials scientist, global advisor on plastics policy and evidence-based research · Plastics Research Council
1 appearance on this show
Simone Maccagnan
Gimac
1 appearance on this show
Tim Wagler
Braskem
1 appearance on this show
John Palmer-Felgate
Eco-Inject
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Karl J. Larsson
Aligned
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