Reducing the Environmental Footprint of Your Healthcare Products with Data-Driven Eco-Design Strategies

Clear, actionable data on your product’s environmental impact supports your decision making throughout the device development process. We provide insights that guide your decisions from material selection to packaging considering all life cycle phases. Using industry-leading tools, we ensure compliance with standards and guidelines within environmental management  (ISO 14040 / ISO 14044 – Life-cycle assessment).

Whether you are developing new medical devices or evaluating existing ones, our sustainability engineers offer tailored solutions to enhance sustainability without compromising safety, efficacy or business goals.

Our Capabilities

Our approach and team working with Sustainability Engineering can help you with:

Sustainability in Product Development

Life Cycle Screenings and Assessments

Corporate Sustainability

Eco-Design Principles

Take-Back Systems

Regulatory Compliance

Material Selection

Device and Packaging

Absolute Sustainability

Gain Clarity and Assurance About the Effects of Your Sustainability Efforts

The medical device manufacturers we work with are seeing a steep increase in sustainability demands coming at them from every angle. Despite a general wish to share in the environmental responsibility and future-proof their businesses, setting the sustainability effort on a steady trajectory can be a major challenge for healthcare manufacturers.

Development cycles lasting several years and strict regulatory requirements to products and safety can make it difficult to incorporate sustainability into an already complex development process.

Make Informed Decisions About Sustainable Design Improvements

Our two-pronged approach provides a framework for making sustainability assessments and improvements from the very beginning and throughout the device development project. This is done by combining eco-design principles with Life Cycle Screenings and bringing important aspects from Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) into the core of the healthcare product development process in a manner that is much faster and more agile than with traditional LCAs.

Rather than being retrospective in character like LCAs, our approach offers value during all stages of product development. The goal is to bring a proactive approach to sustainable product development by gaining fast access to dependable sustainability data throughout the development process.

We see that using eco-design principles when deciding on sustainable design improvements helps our clients to concentrate their effort on the changes that have the most impact. The eco-design principles are firmly grounded in industry best practices end therefore align with the sustainability guidelines of our clients. The principles are also based on established theory from the Ecodesign research community, and they align with designing for a circular economy.

Our Life Cycle Screenings are based on the Life Cycle Assessment methodology in ISO 14040/14044 and provide similar information as an LCA, but based on generic data and assumptions. This makes it applicable during a product development process, providing invaluable feedback to the Ecodesign process in an iterative way. Whether your focus is sustainable packaging or medical device sustainability, our experts can help.

Working with sustainability data can seem a bit far removed from reality. Our clients value our development mindset and the fact that we are rooted in MedTech because it means our focus is on finding solutions that contribute real value to their development projects and ultimately support their business. The sustainability improvements we bring to the project have to be applicable in a device development context and at the same time be in alignment with our clients’ sustainability goals.”

Martin Høier Thomsen

Senior Development Engineer & Sustainability Engineering, MGS Design & Development
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Whether you need a single competency or a combination of skills, our experts in Design & Development are ready to assist you through the entire process. Based on the specific needs of the project, we assemble the ideal team of specialists.

We are able to integrate advanced manufacturing knowledge into the earliest design phase and minimize the number of iterations. Our complete offering takes your project seamlessly through the entire value chain – From Imagination to Realization.

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