Vinny Sastri is an expert in quality management and medical grade plastics. He holds a PhD in Chemistry from the Rutgers University. After a stellar career at BASF, Honeywell and GE-Plastics he founded his own consultancy where he focuses on quality management. He is a certified Six Sigma black belt and his book plastics in medical device is without peers. He recently started as senior vice president global quality at Avanos medical a company providing solutions for Pain Management and Chronic Care. Lets hear our discussion!

This episode was sponsored by www.avanos.com

Here a link to the book "Plastics in Medical Device": https://amzn.to/4gVldHf

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Kim Laursen is the Managing Director of Melitek A/S a medical compounder based in Denmark. With his nearly 30 year of experience he is a true expert in the field of medical compounding. In our discussion we talk about what advantages a compounder dedicated to medical end market brings, about sustainability and how to attract key talent.

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Jonathan Demierre is an expert for eco-design and lead the team Sustainability Engineering at Helbling. He holds a PhD in Energy Systems from the EPFL Lausanne and worked at the Sustainable Engineering Lab of Columbia university in New York before joining Helbling. His whole career is centred around sustainability and eco-design. We talk about the sustainability and how it is embedded in the design process and why you should not put goals on means.

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Steve Maxson is an expert for medical extrusion and currently Innovation and Business Developer at US-Extruders. He has over 20 years of experience in the medical extrusion business and hosts his own podcast Med-Ex The Medical Extrusion Podcast where he covers all things medical extrusion. On the side he also runs his own consulting business maxsoninsightservices.

In our discussion we talk about catheter manufacturing, PFAS, regulatory topics and sustainability.

Our todays guest is Patrick “Pat” Kothe is an expert in sales and marketing of medical devices. He is the CEO of EM Device a medical device start-up based in Austin Texas, helping doctors better treat abscesses. He had a stellar career in Sales and Marketing and his passion are innovative start-ups and career development. He is the host of the “Mastering Medical Device” Podcast, a personal favourite of mine where I had an interview in 2023.

Check also the episode of Pat interviewing Lucas Pianegonda All Plastics Are Not Equal - Choosing the Right One For Your Device — Mastering Medical Device

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Our guest today is Anja Gottschalk, she is an application developer for medical technology and an expert in medical grade polyolefins. She is an member of the VDI's "Plastics in Medical Technology" committee and was involved in the development of the 2017 VDI guideline "Medical Grade Plastics". She gave an overview over the most important polyolfefins PE and PP and then we dove further into the topic of sustainability in polyolefins.

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