MedTech Sustainability by Design
autor: Lucas Pianegonda
How to Replace PVC in Medical Tubing Without Blowing Your Budget
O tomto podcastu
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
Epizody
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- How to Replace PVC in Medical Tubing Without Blowing Your Budget · 16 minWant to get PVC out of your tubing without losing the handling, the bonding or your margin? This episode walks through a real PVC-free tubing case study from start to finish. In…
- How to Speed Up MedTech Product Development, with Dr. Stuart Gran · 50 minHow do you get a medical device to market faster? Dr. Stuart Grant has over 25 years of experience in medtech, a PhD in biomedical engineering and multiple patents, and today he…
- How to Make Your Pipette Tips Lower Carbon Without Changing the Mold · 14 minWant a lower-carbon pipette tip without touching your mold, your process or your validation? This episode walks through a real conductive pipette tip case study from start to…
- How we select plastics for medtech in 2 hours with AI · 28 minWant to use AI for medtech plastic selection without getting wrong answers fast? This is our six-month journey to a fully automated AI workflow, including every mistake we made…
- Drug or Device? Inside Combination Products, with Subhi Saadeh · 41 minCan one product be a drug and a medical device at the same time? Subhi Saadeh, founder of Let's Combinate and host of the Let's Combinate podcast, has spent his career at that…
- PFAS in MedTech: What You Need to Do Now (Swiss Medtech special, with Martin Scheringer and Arne Jaksch) · 1 h 6 minA special episode hosted by Swiss Medtech, with Barbara Mettler asking the questions. Prof. Dr. Martin Scheringer from ETH Zurich, toxicologist Arne Jaksch and Lucas Pianegonda…
- EmpCo, Green-Claims and the ACT Label with James Connelly of My Green Lab · 48 minFrom September 2026, the EU stops accepting green claims that nobody has verified. Self-certified labels are banned. Fines run up to 4% of annual revenue. I talked to James…
- Win Tenders With Sustainability (Joachim Almdal, Care Pathway Consulting) · 48 minEuropean hospitals are already scoring sustainability in tenders. Joachim Almdal from Care Pathway Consulting explains why the device is only 10 to 15% of the emissions across a…
- Microextrusion: Better Catheters With Less Waste with Simone Maccagnan, Gimac · 57 minWhy are most catheters still glued and heat-shrunk together by hand? Simone Maccagnan from Gimac International makes the case for microextrusion: single continuous parts…
- Sustainable Catheter Case-Study with Damian Carr · 56 min · Řada 1 Epizoda 47What 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…
- How to Save 4.5 kg of CO2 per kg of Plastic | Tim Wagler, Braskem · 56 min · Řada 1 Epizoda 46Can 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…
- Corporate Sustainability Made Easy with Matthew Yamatin, Thermo Fisher · 56 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 45How 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…
- Don't Do Ego-Design | Bart Verleije, Voxdale · 56 min · Řada 1 Epizoda 44"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…
- The Sustainable Plastic That's Actually CHEAPER Than Fossil Fuels with Alex Braun, Chairman of Pillar Ltd · 52 min · Řada 1 Epizoda 43Most 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…
- The Autoinjector Redesigned: Less Plastic, Lower Cost, Same Safety with John Palmer-Felgate, Founder & CTO of Eco-Inject · 45 min · Řada 1 Epizoda 42Over 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…
- CAPA Done Right: How to Turn Quality Firefighting into Continuous Improvement with Georg Digel, Founder of Elevate CAPA · 45 minA 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…
- Remanufacturing Single-Use Medical Devices with Ulrike Marczak, CEO at Vanguard · 41 minThis 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…
- The Bio-Based Pipette at comparable costs to conventional Plastic | Bastien Manuel, Commercial Director at elm-plastic · 45 minBastien Manuel recognized that sustainability was inevitable for most medical plastic manufacturers. At elmplastic, he proactively established his business with that future in…
- How Advisory Boards Can Help You Make Strategically Sound Decisions with Jordan Morrison, Founding Partner at Synera Advisory · 49 minThis 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…
- Recycling is Just an Extension of Linearity with Patrick Zimmermann, Managing Director at FKuR Kunststoff GmbH · 46 minThis 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."…
