Corporate Responsibility
Reducing the Impact of Our Products & Services
Future-Forward Products
The products we create help our customers improve people’s lives every day, but we recognize that every product we make also has an environmental impact.
As a result, we imagine sustainable life science products of tomorrow and bring them forward to our customers today.
Our products are designed to offer the highest in innovation, quality, safety, and effectiveness, while at the same time helping our customers reduce their own environmental impacts and costs in order to meet their specific sustainability goals.
We have set a 2015 goal to increase product sustainability in 10% of the product families we offer.
In order to achieve this goal, we are actively integrating sustainability into product design and packaging, offering increased customer options for product recycling and improved end-of-life management, and building upon our constant focus on product quality and safety.
Design & Innovation Innovative product design improving performance while reducing negative impacts |
Recycling & End of Life Programs helping customers with safe, responsible alternatives at end of products’ useful life |
Packaging Solutions improving performance while reducing materials, waste, and impacts |
Product Quality & Safety The foundation of our product commitment, embedded in all we do |