Leading Export-Oriented Fully Integrated Healthcare Company Gains Sustainability Confidence & Business Impact

As an export-oriented business, Kora Healthcare's relies on export markets such as the UK and Canada.  It was really important for CEO, Conor O'Daly and his team to look to the future to try and identify where this leading pharmaceutical and MedTech company needed to be from a sustainability point of view. Discover how Kora Healthcare partnered with Nocomed to measure, report, and successfully reduce their carbon emissions.

“As a healthcare supplier, we feel an onus to be a responsive entity reducing our own carbon footprint and to decarbonizing where possible.  With our own efforts, we contribution to the move towards sustainability in global healthcare systems.”

Conor O’Daly, CEO, Kora Healthcare

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Identifying Sustainability Key Areas

• Identify Kora Healthcare's carbon footprint and carbon intense hotspots.
• Create an informed organisational carbon reduction plan based on the carbon footprint.
• Be able to answer different types of queries from different healthcare customer groups: pharma, patients and consumers.
• Realise competitive advantage now / immediately and into the future.
• The ability to take action to improve sustainability.

Sustainability Platform Needs

• Streamlined data management to collect sustainability data.
• An open-end platform that acts as a repository.
• The ability to update sustainability information in real-time.
• Check / Audit historic greenhouse gas emission data.
• Address various customer queries on carbon reporting.
• Fulfil board level and operation level information needs.
• Analysis emissions and create a carbon reduction plan.
• Prioritise actions in our production plan.
• Identify carbon negative opportunities to execute over a number of years.

Sustainability Implementation

Through clear carbon reduction targets, the Nocomed Life Sciences Sustainability Platform enabled data-driven decisions, built team confidence, and helped gain a competitive edge in the industry. Implementing the Nocomed life sciences sustainability software solution included training and onboarding support led to the following outcomes at Kora.

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"The Nocomed team asked questions we would not have known to ask ourselves. We now realise that the isolated actions we're taking today, are very much part of a journey towards net zero. The help of a software platform like Nocomed really facilitates and make that process much easier."

Conor O'Daly, CEO, Kora Healthcare

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 Sustained Sustainability Outcomes

• Moved to renewable energy in Kora’s office space which was quite quickly and easy. Early Quick Win!
• Significant changes to key product lines.
• Using more renewable and recyclable materials.
• Reviewing warehousing practices to be as sustainable as possible.
• Switched to transport by road or by sea, rather than by air.
• Enabled decision-making when it comes to sustainability practices.
• Executing agreements that are going to take a number of years for impact.
• Changed many policies and procedures with others in the process of being changed.
• Across the business, sustainability is now an agenda item.
• Realisation that significant cost saving for the business.

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Enabling The Kora Healthcare Team

The Nocomed sustainability solution implementation inspired confidence on all things sustainability to help Kora's achieve their sustainable goals.

• Empowered the team from board level and exec level to do things differently.
• Positive cultural change at Kora Healthcare on all things sustainability.
• Realisation that sustainability is important from an environmental point of view, and just as importantly, from a business point of view.
• Grew the team's confidence to be much more efficient & sustainable.
• The ability to to work faster with Nocomed.

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Hear Conor's experience with Nocomed in his own words ↓↓↓

Sustainability HealthTech Awards

With Nocomed's life sciences sustainability platform in place, Kora Healthcare and Nocomed were honoured to be nominated for various sustainability awards together with some of the world's largest global healthcare brands, Johnson and Johnson, Astellas, and Takeda. These industry acknowledgements highlight the potential of industry-informed technology-drive, and sustainability-inspired solutions to create meaningful progress towards sustainable healthcare.

• "Best in Sustainability”, HealthTech Ireland Awards in 2024
• IBEC's Sustainable BioPharmaChem Company of the Year Award 2025‍
• Life Sciences Industry, Sustainability Award 2025

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