Glass bottle has become an indispensable part of the pharmaceutical industry

Glass, as silicate inorganic material, has relatively stable performance and is bright and clean and transparent, which is especially suitable for packaging, storage and quality assurance of drugs. At the same time, compared with other materials, glass prices are relatively cheap. In recent years, with the rapid development of pharmaceutical industry, China's pharmaceutical glass industry and products have been greatly developed and improved, which has become the main packaging materials in the field of pharmaceutical packaging. Glass packaging materials are widely used in injection, powder injection, freeze-drying machine, biological products, blood products, oral liquid, health products, etc. glass bottles are widely used in various pharmaceutical packaging

In our country's glass packaging technology textbooks, various kinds of glass are divided into 11 categories. According to their manufacturing process engineering, pharmaceutical glass bottles belong to the category of bottle glass, but according to their performance and use, they belong to the category of instrument glass. Glass bottle is the traditional beverage packaging container in China, and glass is also a kind of packaging material with a long history. In the case of many kinds of packaging materials pouring into the market, glass container still occupies an important position in beverage packaging, which is inseparable from its packaging characteristics which can not be replaced by other packaging materials. Because drugs are special commodities, the chemical composition, performance and quality requirements of all kinds of pharmaceutical glass products as packaging containers are superior to those of ordinary glass bottles. For a long time, low borosilicate glass containers are the main packaging materials for injection in China. However, filling partial acid and partial alkali solution with low borosilicate glass container with low water resistance level is easy to lead to flake peeling, white spots and other visible foreign matters during the validity period of the drug. As an integral part of drugs, drug packaging materials are closely related to the development of the pharmaceutical industry.