Luca Chiochia
Business Development Manager

About

Luca Chiochia, Business Development Manager at ELIX Polymers, graduated in Management Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Milan (Milan, Italy). Mr Chiochia has 20 years’ experience in the fields of plastics, composites and devices, joining ELIX Polymers in 2017 as Business Development Manager for the healthcare strategic sector.

Since 2020, he has been actively involved in the development of ELIX’s E-LOOP sustainable solutions and circular innovations, including a new, broadening sustainable ABS and blends material portfolio, with chemically recycled, bio-attributed, bio-based and mechanically recycled content. Mr Chiochia has written several technical articles on behalf of ELIX about specialties and sustainable ABS for medical applications that have been published in several renowned medical and pharmaceutical magazines.

Contributions

SUSTAINABILITY

IMPORTANCE OF PRE-COLOURED ABS IN INHALATION MEDICAL DEVICES

Luca Chiochia discusses the vital role of coloured plastics in medical devices and how the use of pre-coloured, pre-tested solutions can provide not only a significantly reduced regulatory burden for device developers and manufacturers but also a higher quality end product, going on to explain how the company is approaching the critical subject of producing more sustainable polymers.