Practice Green Manufacturing: Weihai Kaibo Medical Devices Co., Ltd. promotes the application of environmentally friendly materials
In the context of global advocacy for sustainable development, China's medical device industry is accelerating its transition to green. As one of the innovative enterprises in the field of medical consumables in China, Weihai Kaibo Medical Devices Co., Ltd. actively responds to the national "double carbon" strategic goal, continuously promotes the construction of green manufacturing system, and is committed to reducing the environmental impact in the whole life cycle of products, especially in the research and development and application of environmental protection materials.
Weihai Kaibo Medical has long focused on the research and development, production and sales of disposable medical consumables. The main products include medical catheters, infusion set components, blood collection needle accessories, etc. In recent years, the company has realized the environmental pressure brought by traditional plastic materials in the process of medical waste treatment, and has taken the lead in launching the replacement project of degradable and bio-based materials. Through cooperation with many domestic universities and materials research institutions, the company has successfully developed new environmentally friendly medical materials based on PLA (polylactic acid) and PBS (polybutylene succinate), and has achieved large-scale application in some low-risk consumables products.
According to the company's technical director, these new environmentally friendly materials not only have physical properties comparable to traditional polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (PE), such as high temperature resistance, stretch resistance and sealing, but also can be completely biodegraded under specific industrial composting conditions after disposal, greatly reducing the long-term pollution risk to soil and marine ecology. In addition, the company also optimizes the energy structure in the production process, introduces solar power supply system and intelligent energy consumption monitoring platform, and further improves the level of green manufacturing.
In order to ensure product quality and safety, Weihai Kaibo Medical has passed the ISO 13485 quality management system certification and ISO 14001 environmental management system certification, and in strict accordance with the relevant regulations of the State Food and Drug Administration material verification and clinical evaluation. At present, its environmental protection series of consumables have been used in many top three hospitals in China, and the feedback is good. In the future, it plans to expand to the European and Southeast Asian markets to meet the growing demand for green medical care.
said: "Green manufacturing is not only the embodiment of corporate social responsibility, but also the core of future competitiveness. We hope to promote the whole industry from "compliance production" to "eco-friendly" through technological innovation. '
Weihai Kaibo Medical also actively participated in the formulation of industry standards, advocated the establishment of a medical plastic recycling mechanism, and jointly launched the 'Green Medical Partnership Plan' with industry associations, calling on more upstream and downstream enterprises to jointly build a low-carbon supply chain. With the improvement of public awareness of environmental protection and the strengthening of policy support, environmentally friendly medical devices are becoming a new trend in the market, and Weihai Kaibo Medical is at the forefront of this change.
