Dr. Reddy's

We are spearheading the uptake of Green Chemistry not just within the Company, but also within the Indian pharmaceutical industry. Green Chemistry, also known as sustainable chemistry, is the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances.

Green Chemistry can play a major role not only in improving the organisation's environmental performance but also its competitiveness. The rapid development of green chemistry at Dr. Reddy's is due to the realisation that environmentally friendly generic drug processes will ensure that we retain our 'License to Operate' and also impart a long term cost advantage to our product.

To further entrench this concept within Dr. Reddy's and to give it an industry-wide impetus in India, we have joined the Pharmaceutical Roundtable, a partnership between American Chemical Society (ACS) Green Chemistry Institute® and global pharmaceutical companies.

The roundtable was founded in 2005 to promote innovation while catalysing the integration of green chemistry and green engineering in the pharmaceutical industry.

We are the world's first generic pharmaceutical company to become a member of ACS - GCI.

Generic pharmaceutical companies such as Dr. Reddy's in collaboration with the scientific community such as GCI have the potential to provide critical leadership in engaging and educating the future generation of scientists for a sustainable planet.

Green Chemistry is
an organizational initiative of Dr. Reddy's and has ngoing efforts in a Centre of Excellence at our IPDO.

Our approach to Green Chemistry

Here we follow a process efficiency matrix that allows us to zero in on
the right atom efficiency by comparing various factors such as the right yield, maximum cost benefit and the amount
of solvent and water being used or wasted.

This step involves deciding the best solvent, the best catalyst and the best reagents for the reaction. It also includes optimising the reaction temperature.

The target of this stage is to achieve a minimum 90% yield.

This final step decides how green the final product will be through a parameter called the e-factor, which decides the amount of waste generated per kilogram of product. Currently the pharmaceutical industry produces 50kg of waste for one kilogram of product. At Dr. Reddy's, we are in the process of setting an industry benchmark of cutting the wastage down to 20-25 kg per kilogram of product.

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