Pioneering from the Start
A history of firsts in interventional cardiology
For more than 25 years, the Biosensors International Group (“Biosensors”) has been designing, manufacturing and marketing innovative medical devices used during heart surgery and intensive care treatment.
Continually striving to be at the forefront of product innovation, with a focus on improving patient outcomes today, we are driving the development of tomorrow’s next generation medical technology.
In the year 2000 we entered the interventional cardiology market and immediately became the first cardiology company to develop and patent their own proprietary limus agent, Biolimus A9™ (BA9™), a highly lipophilic1 anti-restenotic drug designed for cardiovascular stent technologies.
We were also the first stent company to develop and launch a biodegradable polymer stent with only the abluminal side coated with polymer and drug to reduce systemic exposure2.
Over the last two-decades Biosensors has become one of the largest manufacturers and suppliers of cardiovascular stents globally.
Our interventional cardiology products are designed to optimize patient outcomes.
Environmental responsibility
Carbon Footprint Reduction - Sustainable Strategy
Biosensors International strives to reduce its waste through the implementation of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives, such as energy saving and recycling processes.
Biosensors International has adopted a systematic approach with the implementation of an environmental management system that aims to contribute to environmental sustainability. As a result, three sites are now ISO 14001:2015 certified: the manufacturing site located in Singapore (certified in August 2018), the European warehouse in the Netherlands and the European headquarter offices in Switzerland (both certified in March 2019). Such environmental management system supports Biosensors International's commitment to contribute to protect the environment and respond to changing environmental conditions in balance with socio-economic needs.
We are committed to:
- Build awareness in our company as well as other persons working under our company’s control in relation to our Environmental Management System and environmental performance, in order to enhance knowledge and promote behavior to achieve continual improvement
- Identify and having access to compliance obligations and understand how they apply to our company to ensure fulfilment of our compliance obligations
- Generate appropriate operational controls in order to protect the environment, including prevention of pollution: promoting the use of sustainable resources, striving for recycling, and maximizing the use of primary sources of energy
-
Towards this end, our key objectives include:
- Continuously improving the efficiency and sustainability of our business activities and products using a life cycle perspective, resulting in the lowering of greenhouse gas emissions and water use wherever feasible
- Minimizing the generation of hazardous and non-hazardous waste and recycling wastes wherever feasible
- Reuse, recycle, composting materials and conserve energy wherever feasible.
Our key 2025 objectives are:
In Singapore:
- Achieve overall objectives hit rate by more than 80%
- Initiate programs to support BIG decarbonization roadmap, minimum one program/initiative
- Eliminate use of papers through extension of use of electronic platform for QEMS processes
- Reduce paper use by 3% in QA/RA depts
- Track and make progress on the e-IFU project to build a ready platform for operation roll out.
- Reduce drug waste by decreasing its retention at incoming
- Replace fluorescent light tubes by LED lighting at the level 3 offices
- Identify and source a chiller replacement model to reduce energy consumption by at least 10%
- Reduce chemical use by 5 % per stent manufactured
- Extent implementation of eDHR for minimum one production line
- Replace all inkjet printers in order to reduce cartridge wastes
- Achieve REACH compliance for all new product projects
- Recycle at least 35% of shipping cartons used in finished goods shipments
- Identify and source alternative shipping cartons and foam materials with higher recyclable content
In Europe:
-
Sales & Marketing:
- CO2 emissions reduction through virtual events
- Optimize the use of promotional materials stored in our warehouse -
Supply chain:
- Reduce scrapping by 51% compared to maximum expected in 2025
- Reduce by 20% the product stock expiring between January and September 2026
- Reduce outbound shipments in EMEA direct markets- achieve a ratio of 1.40 -
Clinical activities:
- Validate the study carbon footprint tool by using it in a trial and stay within 5% of estimated emission total of 42 tons of kg CO2 equivalent
- Evaluate upfront the emission cost (in kg eq CO2) for future trial and include this assessment in the final decision -
European warehouse:
- Decrease the normal heating (gas) by 3%.
- Finalize green heat strategy by 2035 to switch to another energy than gas to heat the building (second part)
- Ship one container of foam for reuse in Singapore
-
BESA Offices:
- Commuting policy to develop for a Go live in 2025
- Remove bins in offices and create a main collection point to promote recycling/sorting
- Archive e-data by 10%
Biosensors Vision
We Touch Patients Lives with Pioneering Medical Technologies
Biosensors manufactures and markets innovative medical devices for interventional cardiology.
Our aim is to improve patients’ lives through pioneering medical technology that pushes the boundaries of innovation.
Through our high quality medical devices we impact the lives we touch and we are committed to continued investment in the development of pioneering medical technology, robust clinical data and engineering new medical devices that will further benefit your patients.
This will create the greatest possible patient outcomes and provide value to our stakeholders including customers, employees, communities and shareholders.
Global Presence
The Biosensors International Group has operations worldwide and is headquartered in Singapore. The European headquarters are located in Morges (Switzerland). With the combination of a direct sales network and distributors across the world, Biosensors is dedicated to serving the needs of the healthcare community and is committed to, the support of bona fide medical education, advancing the progress of medical science and improving patient care, through training courses, scientific summits and symposia and related events on a regular basis, both in international forums and at national level. Biosensors also participate in some of the major cardiology congresses throughout the world - doing so in a way that complies with all ethical and legal requirements.
