Glas als Primärpackmittel für pharmazeutische Produkte Burkhard Lingenberg Gerresheimer Group, Düsseldorf Glass as a Primary Packaging Material for Pharmaceutical Products Pharmaceutical primary packaging must keep medicines permanently protected. A wide range of different glass packaging types is available to meet this need across the board through containers up to the highest chemical resistance, with lasting imperviousness and functionally designed.
Today of course the demands of the pharmaceutical industry on its glass suppliers go well beyond the provision of packaging. Interdisciplinary system partnerships oriented towards an integral approach are sought. The pharmaceutical industry and its suppliers jointly develop drug-delivery concepts where safety, convenience and economy go hand in hand along the entire value-added chain. Packaging specialists with worldwide operations concentrate their expertise in research, development, technology and services in a targeted way on system approaches which cover all relevant steps in the process chain.
Against this background the following contribution explores the subject of pharmaceutical glass. It provides information about approved glass types, packaging forms and efficient processes in production and quality assurance, as well as pathbreaking development trends. Key words Behälterglas · Drug-Delivery-Systeme · Einmalspritzensysteme, vorfüllbare · Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) · Primärverpackungen · Reinraumproduktion · Röhrenglas · Systempartnerschaft | 
