Sustainability

We apply Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to give you a clear, evidence based view of your product carbon footprint (PCF) across any part of its entire life cycle. By highlighting where design or development changes will have the biggest environmental impact, LCA supports confident, data driven decisions about your sustainability strategy.

Effective LCA relies on both hard data and robust assumptions built on a deep knowledge of medical devices and their use cases. We work closely with you to ensure our modelling is accurate, realistic and relevant to your device’s context of use, helping you identify the most meaningful opportunities to reduce your environmental impact across your product life cycle.

Circular design focuses on creating medical devices that extend the material value, delay the disposal of materials and reduce environmental impact across the entire product life cycle. We help you assess end of life pathways, manufacturing methods, material choices and packaging so you can identify where circularity principles can add real value. This includes designing components for reuse, disassembly, refurbishment or recycling, selecting renewable or lower impact materials and minimising waste in both production and post use phases. By embedding circular thinking early in development, we help you create devices that deliver strong sustainability benefits while remaining safe, effective and commercially viable.

Selecting the most appropriate material for the intended performance is a key part of robust design, and selecting sustainable alternatives would not compromise that. When selecting between bio-based, recycled, recyclable or commodity materials, we would assess tangible properties such as performance and cost, as well as hidden attributes such as regulatory impact, environmental impact, availability and supply chain to make an informed decision. We also stay on top of regulations to ensure that only safe and approved materials are selected, avoiding hazardous or toxic chemicals such as PFAS.

Creating more sustainable medical devices depends on strong, responsible partnerships across your supply chain. We help you evaluate and engage suppliers who can support your sustainability ambitions, drawing on our deep understanding of medical devices and environmental performance. By working closely with stakeholders at every stage of the value chain, we help you identify opportunities to reduce impact, improve transparency and build a supply network that actively contributes to your product’s sustainability goals.

From exploring user-centred, mechanical designs to reduce reliance on electronic components, to component reduction and design simplification, our team are adept at rapidly exploring new concepts and approaches to find the most sustainable option to progress with. Drawing on input from our in-house team of industrial designers, mechanical engineers and human factors specialists, we approach every concept from a multidisciplinary viewpoint, ensuring all factors are considered so you can progress forwards with confidence.

We apply LCA to benchmark your device against competitor products or other sustainable alternatives, helping you understand where improvements could be made. This analysis highlights the key life cycle “hotspots” that drive the greatest emissions or impact, giving you a clear view of where targeted improvements will make the biggest difference. By identifying these priority areas early, we help you focus your development effort where it delivers real value, guiding you towards design and sustainability decisions that strengthen both product performance and market positioning.