Influencing and improving the environmental performance of a large multi-national pharmaceutical company can be achieved with the help of electronic education tools, backed up by site champions and strong site teams. This paper describes the development of two of those education tools.

The American Chemical Society (ACS) Green Chemistry Institute (GCI) Pharmaceutical Roundtable conducted a study to elucidate the value of continuous processing, which had been defined as a key research area for green engineering. In the course of defining the business case for continuous processing, individual cases were collected and evaluated to determine specific drivers to implement continuous processing and to find key success factors. The magnitude and timing of effects and the relation to the principles of green chemistry were investigated.

Green and sustainable drug manufacturing goes hand in hand with forward-looking visions seeking to balance the long-term sustainability of business, society, and the environment.