Do you own a Pharmaceutical, Cosmetics, or a Food & Beverage business? If yes, than packaging is one of the key aspects of your customer experience. Especially if you operate in the pharmaceutical industry and end up working with jars, vials, cartridges, and ampoules, where protection from foreign particles is of prime importance. This is where Pharma glass becomes a packaging material of choice for many. If you are in the market for packaging glass or setting up a Pilot Plant, you should keep the following in mind:
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Quality & Conformance of the Packaging Material
Depending on the sensitivity of your solutions/products, the packaging glass with an appropriate quality level should be used. Typically, a pharma glass conforming to the international ISO GMP 15378/ISO 900 standards is considered as base quality suitable for most operations. Then there are region specific standards, such as EU–Pharmacopoeia or US-Pharmacopoeia. With these conformance standards in place, you can be assured that the quality of the packaging materials will satisfy your requirements.
Requirement of Further Treatment
Based on the methods used to manufacture packaging glass, the number of particles present in the glass may vary. Now, in most cases such particles may not interfere with your product. However, if your product is sensitive in nature and exposure to foreign particles should be at a minimum, such as in case of a Pilot Plant, then manufacturing methods of the packaging materials become important. Here, keep an eye out for manufacturers following the laminar-flow technology or conforming to ISO 8 (category 100 000) standards. These quality standards lets you know that further treatment of the packaging material is not required and can be used directly in sensitive apparatus of the Pilot Plant.
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