Greener Products and Solutions

We actively integrate sustainability into the product development process and look at all phases of the product life cycle for opportunities to develop products and tools that deliver the highest performance in innovation, quality, safety and effectiveness, while minimizing environmental impact. These efforts enable our customers to carry out cutting-edge research, while positively contributing to their own environmental impact goals.

Designing products for sustainability, evaluating and selecting suppliers against sustainability criteria, pursuing green chemistry, and reducing packaging and end-of-life impact through recycling are all recognized as important aspects of greener products and solutions.

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Responsible Production & Consumption

Making a Difference: One Company's Mission to Put Sustainability at the Heart of All It Does
European Pharmaceutical Manufacturer speaks to a leading life science company to learn about its initiative to implement a sustainability framework across its entire R&D network.

Sustainable Development Goals

It's Not Easy Being Green: How MilliporeSigma Is Taking Big Steps Toward Smaller Footprints
Being “green” has become the new expectation across many industries, with environmental and sustainability programs now an integral—and necessary—part of an organization’s overall business strategy.

Sustainable Development Goals

MilliporeSigma Enhances Design for Sustainability Framework, Offers Customers Data-Driven Insights for Greener Solutions
MilliporeSigma has launched an enhanced Design for Sustainability (DfS) framework, a unique approach to holistically integrate sustainability into products, systems and services.

Responsible Production & Consumption

People of Packaging Podcast Features Fabien Thibault - Global Manager, Product & Packaging Sustainability for MilliporeSigma
Adam Peek, host of the People of Packaging podcast, sat down with Fabien Thibault, global manager, product & packaging sustainability for MilliporeSigma, to discuss his career in packaging and the sustainable strides he’s making at MilliporeSigma.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Jeffrey Whitford of MilliporeSigma: Five Strategies Our Company Is Using to Tackle Climate Change & Become More Sustainable
Making change happen will be your biggest challenge. We live on the front edge of new ideas, which means that we’re always asking people to change and do new things. Reality check: People don’t like new things that change what they’re used to.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

MilliporeSigma Sustainability Initiatives Named 2020 Winners in the BIG Awards for Business
MilliporeSigma has been named Green Company of the Year by Business Intelligence Group through its BIG Awards for Business program.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Spotlight on Award Winner: MilliporeSigma - DOZN 2.0
MilliporeSigma created the free web-based greener alternative scoring matrix DOZN 2.0, which is a quantitative green chemistry evaluator based on the 12 principles of green chemistry to increase sustainability in scientific research.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

MilliporeSigma's Jeffrey Whitford Named Professional of the Year at PRNEWS' CSR & Nonprofit Awards
MilliporeSigma's Jeffrey Whitford, head of sustainability and social business innovation, was named Professional of the Year at PRNEWS' virtual CSR & Nonprofit Awards.

Research, Reports & Publications

Approaches to Incorporating Green Chemistry and Safety into Laboratory Culture
We know green chemistry to be the framework for conducting chemistry in a manner that is conducive to life. This article emphasizes how framing green chemistry through the lens of systems thinking can build a culture of safety in the lab.

Sustainable Development Goals

How Sustainable Changes—Big or Small—Are a Step in the Right Direction
Change. Whether we want to admit it or not, it’s something that we aren’t fond of, don’t like to embrace, and most of the time, aren’t really great at. There’s an entire field of study and career paths in change management to help usher in change in a more palatable way. Corporations invest money to have professionals or staff members trained to take ownership of things, like cultural change, operational change or fill-in-the _________ change.
The life science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany operates as MilliporeSigma in the U.S. and Canada

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