FIOLAX Special Glass Tubes for Pharmaceutical Packaging
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FIOLAX® Special Glass Tubes for Pharmaceutical Packaging

SCHOTT is an international technology group with more than 125 years of experience in the areas of specialty glasses and materials and advanced technologies. With our high-quality products and intelligent solutions, we contribute to our customers’ success and make SCHOTT part of everyone’s life. With a production capacity of more than 140,000 tons and production sites in Europe, South America and Asia, SCHOTT’s business segment Tubing is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of glass tubes, rods and profiles. Approximately 60 glass types are produced in large external diameters and a...

Innovative Solutions for the Future Glass Tubing – More than Just Glass While proudly looking back on more than 125 years of experience and excellence in glass technology, we at SCHOTT have set our sights on the future: our Business Segment Tubing has been a decisive factor in setting market trends thanks to continuous process innovation, combined with sophisticated technologies and SCHOTT’s own established know-how. Glass Tubing – Reliable Supplies around the World A production capacity of more than 140,000 metric tons and production sites on three continents have made the SCHOTT Group’s...

Technical Data Transmission (%) Wave length (nm) (measured on processed glass with 1.0 mm wall thickness) ■ FIOLAX® clear FIOLAX® amber Physical Data FIOLAX® clear and FIOLAX® amber Proven Quality Credentials in the Pharmaceutical Market FIOLAX® clear FIOLAX® amber Coefficient of mean linear thermal 4.9 • 10-6K-1 5.4 • 10-6K-1 expansion a (20 °C; 300 °C) according to ISO 7991 Transformation temperature 7g: 565 °C 550 °C Glass Temperature at viscosity h in dPa • s: 1013 (annealing point) 565 °C 560 °C Otto Schott, founder of the present-day SCHOTT AG, was far ahead of his...

FIOLAX® for Cartridges and Pen SystemsInside Diameter Tolerances up to ± 0.05 mm FIOLAX® for syringes with extremely accurate filling quantities. The narrow geometric tolerances typical of FIOLAX® are extremely important for prefillable syringes. On the one hand, FIOLAX® with its precise dimensions optimizes machine operation throughout the manufacturing process, especially during the shaping of the syringe head. On the other hand the narrow inside diameter tolerances ensure very exact filling quantities, especially in syringe systems with scales. The resistance of FIOLAX® to compressive...

FIOLAX® for Vials FIOLAX® for Ampoules FIOLAX® for vials effectively protects their content. Whether or not the properties of medicines remain unchanged over long periods of time literally depends on the containers they are kept in. The outstanding chemical resistance, neutrality and impermeability of FIOLAX® clear and FIOLAX® amber ensures an optimum protection of the contents against premature aging and loss of effectiveness. FIOLAX® amber additionally offers effective protection from ultra-violet rays and short-wave visible light. And to top everything, all FIOLAX® glass tubes are...

Logistic Solutions Flexible, Fast and Automated The right Amounts of the right Products at the right Place and the right Time The logistics services of SCHOTT’s Tubing Business Segment allow greater cost-effectiveness while ensuring smooth delivery of the goods. SCHOTT’s fully IT-supported internal logistics and e-commerce options create ideal conditions for everyday cooperation. The customer can decide the delivery date and composition as soon as he places the electronic order. All logistic, production and measuring data are precisely filed for each pallet and are available online for the...

Scientific Services Expertise and Troubleshooting Your direct link The Scientific Services department provides expert assistance on all issues concerning the properties of our glass tubing, further processing and the great variety of applications of our FIOLAX® glass tubes. Our Scientific Services advisors are optimally equipped with their own chemical and physical laboratories enabling them to offer a wide range of services, from preventive product analysis to independent surveys and customized analyses. Our range of activities at a glance Fault analysis and recommendations on the...

Quality by SCHOTT Meet one’s own demands Quality management of all business and technical processes plays a central role in the manufacture of pharmaceutical products, as any deviations from the quality standard may have direct effects on consumer health. We from SCHOTT’s Tubing Business Segment, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of glass tubing for pharmaceutical primary packaging, take this responsibility very seriously. FIOLAX® Academy Especially for customers or pharmaceutical companies we offer a module based training concept which is called FIOLAX® Academy. Interested customers...

Tested and Approved Quality from SCHOTT Every single glass tube made by SCHOTT is controlled 100 % before it even leaves the production process. Every single measured value is documented and available at any time. Thanks to this stringent level of testing and quality control, SCHOTT helps to make the customers' incoming goods inspection a lot easier. All of SCHOTT's production lines have both mechanical and optoelectronic precision measuring equipment designed to inspect every single tube and detect any variation from the defined tolerances. Any tube found to be outside the tolerance limits...