Pharmaceutical and Biotech Operational Challenges
Navigating Water, Energy & Waste Management Complexities
- Resource Intensity: High water and energy use drive up costs
- Hazardous Waste: Complex streams demand specialized handling
- Utility Dependency: Disruptions can halt production instantly
- Quality Risks: Environmental shifts threaten batch integrity
- Regulatory Pressure: Zero tolerance for compliance deviations
- Safety Hazards: Operational failures endanger people and environment
- Sustainability Demands: Growing pressure to reduce impact
In this highly regulated industry, companies must address interconnected challenges while maintaining critical safety, quality, and compliance standards.
Your Strategic Partner for ESG Goal Achievement
From carbon neutrality to circular solutions, we help turn your environmental goals into measurable success.
We share your vision for a more sustainable future. Whether it’s achieving carbon neutrality, reducing waste, or embracing circular practices, we’re here to guide you every step of the way. More than just a solutions provider, we’re your strategic partner in turning environmental goals into tangible results. With expertise in renewable energy, water stewardship, and circular economy, we deliver tailored solutions and end-to-end support, from assessment to implementation and beyond. Let’s make your sustainability ambitions a reality, together.
Cut Carbon Emissions
Carbon neutrality for direct operations (Scopes 1 & 2).
Drive a significant absolute reduction in value chain emissions (Scope 3).
Progress toward Net Zero emissions across the entire value chain.
Transition to Green Energy
100% renewable electricity across global operations.
Improve energy efficiency and reduce energy intensity across sites.
Continuous monitoring and reduction of emissions across all manufacturing sites.
Water Stewardship
Reduction in potable water consumption/withdrawal.
Water neutrality in water-stressed regions.
Water quality improvement from manufacturing effluents.
Water stewardship and efficiency plans
Waste & Circular Economy
Zero waste to landfill.
Waste diversion and recycling rate maximization.
Reduction in total waste generation
Ecological Transformation
Sustainable Solutions for Pharma Industries
Innovative water treatment, renewable energy, and circular waste management solutions designed to meet industrial performance and environmental goals in life sciences.
Veolia's Comprehensive Solutions Portfolio
Integrated Water, Energy & Waste Management for Pharmaceutical Excellence
Veolia delivers end-to-end solutions designed specifically for pharmaceutical and biotech operations. Our integrated approach addresses your most critical challenges - from ensuring continuous high-quality water supply and reliable energy management to safe handling of complex waste streams. As your one-stop partner, we provide a packaged offering covering water, waste, and energy management with a single point of contact, simplifying operations while ensuring safety, compliance, and sustainability. Our expertise integrates across your entire value chain from engineering and design to daily operations, with flexible service models (DBOM, BOT, DBOO, O&M) tailored to your needs.
Total Waste Management – Maximizing Circularity and Operational Efficiency On Site
Your Challenge: Managing pharmaceutical waste on-site requires precise identification and segregation to meet strict regulatory standards, while advancing toward zero-waste goals and maintaining safety and operational efficiency.
Our Solution : Our expert team manages all your waste streams end-to-end, directly on your site, offering:
- Waste Identification, Characterization, Segregation and Storage
- Coordination, Collection, Transport & Final Disposal
- Regulatory Compliance Support & Full Traceability
- Rapid Incident Management Response
- Maximized Material Recovery (e.g., solvent recovery)
Key Benefits : Maximize Circularity • Reporting Support • Waste Reduction Plan • Minimize landfill • Rapid Spill & Incident Response • Uninterrupted operations • Full traceability
Specialized Waste Expertise - Managing Complex and Confidential Waste with Safety and Compliance
Your Operational Challenge: Complex waste streams require specialized handling. Inadequate management risks employee safety, regulatory non-compliance production disruptions and setbacks to sustainability goals. Confidential waste (expired drugs or defective products,...) needs secure disposal to protect IP and ensure compliance.
Our Solution: Veolia delivers end-to-end waste management with specialized expertise covering every type of waste stream, from complex industrial waste to non-hazardous materials, including:
- High Potential waste, spent solvents, chemical by-products, cytotoxic compounds, bio-hazardous materials, POP waste and laboratory materials
- Confidential waste handling: expired drugs, defective products, pilot batches, and proprietary compounds with certified destruction, full traceability, and 24/7 monitoring
Key Benefits: Full compliance • Secure handling of confidential products • Global alignment • Maximizing recovery • Minimize landfill • All Waste, One Expert • Full confidentiality and traceability
Energy Management Solutions - Powering your site with resilience & efficiency
Your Challenges: Pharmaceutical operations are highly energy-intensive, with HVAC systems, cleanrooms, and refrigeration consuming large amounts of energy, driving up costs. Regulatory and ESG pressures demand carbon reduction while maintaining GMP compliance and production continuity.
Our Solution: Veolia’s on-site energy experts deliver comprehensive energy management:
- Energy Efficiency: conservation systems, waste heat recovery
- Process Optimization: digital monitoring, preventive maintenance
- Energy Switch: renewable installations, CHP
Key Benefits: Lower energy costs • Cut GHG emissions • Reliable GMP-compliant supply • Uninterrupted operations. Focus on your core business while we manage your energy and operational risks.
Water Management - Driving a more circular economy on your site
Your Challenges: Pharma and biotech facilities rely on purified water, WFI, and process water while facing strict wastewater compliance, high-quality demands, and pressure to reduce consumption. Rising costs and ESG commitments require reliable, sustainable solutions.
Our Solution: Our experts operate on-site at your facility, ensuring full water management:
- Efficiency & Optimization: total cycle management, plant optimization
- Recycling & Reuse: water recovery and reclaim solutions
- Advanced Technologies: specialized wastewater treatment, ultra-pure water production
Key Benefits: Reliable water supply • Reduced consumption • Safe treatment of complex pharmaceutical wastewater • Enhanced circularity • Cut operational costs. Focus on your core business while we manage water on-site and ensure environmental, operational, and human risk management.
Case Studies
How Veolia drives efficiency, compliance, and sustainability in pharma & biotech
Discover real-world examples of Veolia’s integrated water, energy, and waste solutions, showing how sites have improved performance, reduced costs, and met regulatory and sustainability goals.
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