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Ausgangsmaterialien, Produktionsverfahren und Maßnahmen zur Qualitätssicherung bei der Herstellung von Behältnissen aus Pharma-Glas

Ein Überblick über den aktuellen Stand bei Rohstoffen, Herstellmethoden, Beschichtungen, Glassorten, neuen Herstellungsverfahren sowie Qualitätssicherung und Validierung

Hans Wörder

HAWE Packing Consulting, Bünde/Westf.

Starting Materials, Production Processes, and Measures of Quality Assurance in the Manufacture of Containers Made of Pharmaceutical Glass / An overview on the state of engineering with regard to raw materials, manufacturing processes, coating, glass types, new procedures and also quality assurance and validation

The high resistance of glass to pharmaceutical products is of importance for the selection of appropriate containers. Especially for small-volume parenterals, but also for higer volumes of up to 1000 ml glass is the preferred packaging material.
The developments of the last years have lead to improvements with regard to size accuracy and tolerance limits, weight of moulded glass items and the optical appearance of the respective glass containers. A significantly higher overall quality level and, thus, a better performance in the mechanical filling process have been achieved by the use of fully automated camera systems for controlling the outer dimensions of glass containers.
The following paper describes the state of engineering of production, standardisation and quality development considering the differences between moulded and tubular glass. The special modes of operation for the manufacture of both types point at various opportunities for a wide-range use of the two different glass types for the packaging of pharmaceutical products.

Key words DIN/ISO-Standards · Hüttenglas · Kameramessung · Reinraumverpackung · Röhrenglas