Bachelor Assignment

Amgen is a leading biotechnology company with a mission to serve patients. At Amgen Breda, medicines are labelled, assembled, stored, and eventually shipped to various countries worldwide. The aim of this project is to redesign secondary packaging for vials and evaluate sustainable secondary packaging materials for Amgen's European production facilities, with a focus on improving environmental impact, operational efficiency, and compliance with the future EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation. Based on an evaluation of the given criteria two distinct options emerge: a plastic-free option that serves as a long-term solution that includes mono-packaging as a sustainable strategy, and a short-term solution that includes plastics to meet immediate needs or specific criteria. The final designs were created using a mono material, resulting in a percentage volume reduction to current packaging configurations with respectively x%, y% and z%.