Corning Valor® Glass, A Glass Package Designed Specifically for Pharmaceutical Use

The biopharmaceutical industry has evolved over the past several decades to enable new biological drugs for treating previously intractable diseases, high-speed filling lines to improve the availability and access of essential medicines for patients around the globe, and innovative new drug delivery systems that reduce errors and enhance patient compliance. These advances have put additional demands on the glass material used for drug storage and delivery.

While the standards for quality and safety have continued to rise in tandem with these innovations, the glass containers in which medicines are housed have remained largely unchanged and are still dependent upon science originating from the 1930s. Delamination and glass particulate contamination instances that threaten drug product sterility have plagued the industry with a number of glass packaging-associated recalls in recent years.

Corning’s Valor Glass offers improved overall extractable and leachable performance for parenteral packaging applications relative to comparable borosilicate containers, and it also dramatically reduces glass particulates and prevents cracks that may otherwise lead to a loss of drug stability and sterility. A complete solution for a range of glass quality issues that affect products spanning from generic small molecule drugs to vaccines and biologics is essential to avoid costly delays and drug product recalls, all while increasing patient safety.