Swiss pharmaceutical group Novartis has contracted Veolia to manage its industrial utilities and product support and facility services at fifteen of its largest sites in Europe.
Veolia has won the contract with the management of utilities at Novartis' production sites in Basel (Switzerland), the company's historic headquarters, as well as the management of technical services and facilities at 15 of its largest sites in Western Europe. The contracts are worth cumulative revenues of €925 million over five years.
Veolia has been working with Novartis on its operational, economic and environmental performance approach at its Basel complex-the global pharmaceutical leader's flagship site - since 2001. Veolia provides optimum water supply (drinking, ultra-pure, industrial and demineralized water) and energy fluid (electricity, steam, superheated water, compressed air and cooling water) management at the Basel sites, as well as the collection and treatment of waste, in particular, hazardous waste.
Veolia operates Europe's largest solvent distillation facility, situated on a Novartis production site in Basel. Distillation of 21,000 metric tons of solvents recycled during production is a critical issue to ensure continuity of production, and is part of the audit process which leads to U.S. Food & Drug Administration and European Medicine Agency approvals of drug development stages carried out on sites.
Veolia has also designed and implemented new operating modes of mutualized production of utilities promoting the optimization of the sites' energy mix consumption, including the increase of onsite production of electricity and recovery of the end-steam produced.
The innovations have enabled Novartis to reduce its CO2 emissions by more than 20% between 2007 and 2009. Novartis was keen to further improve its environmental and economic performance and decided to extend the model of integrated management to 15 of its largest sites in the world.
Veolia will now ensure the provision of industrial utilities for the 15 sites, including water, energy and waste management, together with facility management and services supplied to the occupants of business premises. Under the contract, Veolia will provide all the technology, equipment and industrial flow optimization systems to underpin economic and environmental performance across the fifteen sites in France, Italy, Spain and Ireland.
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