Forbes
Summary
Inside a pharmaceutical plant, heat is everywhere—and until recently, almost nobody was paying attention to it.
Steam rising from boilers. High-temperature reactions turn raw inputs into finished drugs. Buildings and manufacturing lines are kept at precise temperatures around the clock. For decades, the fuel behind it all was natural gas, cheap enough that nobody questioned it and complex enough that nobody wanted to touch it
Now, AstraZeneca, working with the supply chain platform Secaro and the sustainability consultancy ERM, is launching a Clean Heat Program designed to do something that's proven surprisingly hard: systematically decarbonize how heat is produced, not just within the company's own walls but across its vast supplier network. The goal is not only cleaner operations. It's a more predictable business.
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