Single-use technology and the carbon and water footprints of biopharm manufacturing

摘要

The manufacture of biopharmaceutical drugs, like many other industrial processes, involves the use of consumables, chemicals, water, heat, chilling, natural gas, and electricity. Each of these inputs to the manufacturing process, and in turn, requires some form of energy for their production. Increasingly, it is becoming more common for organizations to evaluate and quantify the environmental footprint associated with their business undertakings. Biopharmaceutical drug manufactures are scrutinizing their environmental footprints and are investigating alternates to lower their carbon, water and land footprints. Many manufacturers still believe that reusable stainless steel facilities offer the lowest environmental footprint as these facilities can be used to produce many batches of product over many years of operation.