Sustainability in the Pharmaceuticals Industry

Driving Sustainability in the Pharmaceutical Industry 

The pharmaceutical industry has a significant environmental footprint, making sustainability initiatives crucial for minimising waste, conserving resources, and reducing the sector's ecological impact. Veolia plays a crucial role in supporting the thriving pharmaceutical sector in Australia and New Zealand. As a leading environmental solutions provider, Veolia collaborates closely with pharmaceutical companies to optimise resource management, minimise waste generation, and ensure strict adherence to comply with regulations and meet societal expectations 

Challenges in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Pharmaceutical companies are responsible for discovering, developing and producing drugs or medications. They have to manage a number of risks, tight regulations and health and safety of workers and consumers while minimising costs of production. In terms of sustainability, the pharmaceutical industry faces unique challenges that could impact operations and production processes. These include minimising environmental impacts through efficient waste management and water treatment, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and optimising energy usage, implementing sustainable sourcing practices for raw materials, developing eco-friendly packaging solutions, and adhering to environmental regulations while maintaining operational efficiency and product quality standards. Addressing these sustainability challenges is crucial for pharmaceutical companies to reduce their ecological footprint, enhance their corporate social responsibility, and drive long-term sustainable growth.

Pharmaceutical Companies Achieving Sustainability 

The fast paced development of the chemical and pharmaceutical industries require an adaptive and flexible utility supply to maintain product quality. At Veolia we can help you achieve your production and R&D goals by supplying guaranteed energy efficient utilities that lower your costs and environmental impact, as well as providing proven service solutions geared to meet your unique needs, whether you deal with active ingredients, biosciences, finished pharmaceuticals, chemicals or medical services. Once we identify your individual requirements, our unique methodology ensures we can deliver high quality tailored utility and energy services, in line with best practices, to:

• Process Heat: we specialise in the supply of heat in various forms (pure steam, process steam, hot water) required for reactors, digesters, sterilisers and other applications.
• Process Refrigeration: we can manage your production and distribution facilities, delivering positive, negative and ultra-negative refrigeration as required for cooling and preserving products, and for cooling production vessels or cleaning stations.
• Compressed Air: We can deliver pure or processed compressed air for your production requirements, such as pressurisation of process vessels and automation.
• Vacuum: We can also meets your vacuum requirements, in particular for packaging lines (e.g., for filling bags with powder or blister packaging).We guarantee savings by carrying out a full energy, water and waste analysis of the site and executing a road-map of improvement projects. 

We guarantee savings by carrying out a full energy, water and waste analysis of the site and execute a road-map of improvement projects. Our solutions for pharmaceutical companies include: