EPM sits down with Merck’s Jeffrey Whitford to find out about where the company is up to in terms of its sustainability initiatives.
The last time we spoke to Merck KGaA, the company was in the early stages of launching its Design for Sustainability initiative (DfS) –a project intended to revamp the way research & development (R&D) was conducted throughout the business, all with the aim of developing more environmentally friendly products.
Then, when speaking to Whitford, head of sustainability and social business innovation, Merck he told us of some of the spot successes the company had had with designing more sustainable products. Nowhe tells us of a fundamental change in the business. DfS is now being “driven into our processes and becoming a part of the everyday work that the scientists are doing, [it’s] not just optional now but really required,” Whitford says.