of medical waste recycled into plastic construction materials
(From 2016 to 2018)
Responsibility
Protecting the environment and advancing sustainability go hand-in-hand with our purpose of improving and saving lives through diagnostics.
“Protecting the environment and advancing sustainability go hand-in-hand with our purpose of improving and saving lives through diagnostics.”
Read more about how we protect the environment400 tons
875 typical U.S. homes
can be powered per year by the amount of energy offset by our solar panels & co-generation unit
33 million
Gallons of water saved every year by our facility intiatives
(From 2015)
“Our VITROS® Systems utilize our patented dry slide technology, delivering the most accurate tests in the market.”
Read more about VITROS®96%
First Pass Yield, which is on average 12 percent higher than other non-VITROS® systems
120,000
Additional Tests per million without a need for intervention or delay
15,000
Patients positively impacted a year
* assuming 8 tests per patient
“Ortho has implemented a multitude of energy efficiency improvements that resulted in both the generation of clean energy and the reduction of energy consumption by 5 percent since 2015.”
400 tons
of medical waste recycled into plastic construction materials
(From 2016 to 2018)
875 typical U.S. homes
can be powered per year by the amount of energy offset by our solar panels & co-generation unit
33 million
Gallons of water saved every year by our facility intiatives
(From 2015)
Compliance & Safety
Accreditations
Ortho Clinical Diagnostics is committed to providing a safe, healthy and environmentally friendly working environment for all employees and visitors to our facilities.




Our Code of Conduct
At Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, integrity, honesty and ethical conduct is the foundation for all our business practices. Our Code of Conduct ensures that we hold ourselves and how we do business to a high standard.
Ortho’s Ethics Hotline is an integral component of the strong compliance culture. It provides a channel for all employees, contractors, customers, third-party agencies and other partners to report potential violations of the Code of Conduct or other Company policies or the applicable laws and regulations in the countries of operation. The Ortho Clinical Diagnostics Ethics Hotline is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The concerns can be filed both electronically here or by calling a toll-free number (see international dialing instructions on the same website).
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