SCHOTT Pharma

SCHOTT Pharma one of the world’s major manufacturers of drug containment and delivery solutions for injectables, including prefillable glass and polymer syringes, glass and polymer syringes cartridges, and glass vials and ampoules, serving over 1,800 pharmaceutical customers worldwide.

Headquarters
SCHOTT Pharma AG & Co KGaA
Hattenbergstrasse 10
55122 Mainz
Germany

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T: +49 6131 66-0
E: Pharma@schott.com

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SCHOTT Pharma designs and manufactures drug containment and delivery solutions for injectable medications, including prefillable glass and polymer syringes, as well as glass and polymer cartridges, and glass vials and ampoules.

The company holds over 1,000 patents and develops new technologies at a dedicated R&D centre in Switzerland. Its products are used across the injectable drug sector, with over 1,800 customers including the top 30 pharma manufacturers for injectables.

SCHOTT Pharma AG & Co KGaA is headquartered in Mainz, Germany, and listed as 1SXP on the SDAX index of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. It is majority owned by SCHOTT AG, which is in turn owned by the Carl Zeiss Foundation. The company employs around 4,800 people from over 65 countries and operates 17 manufacturing sites in Europe, North and South America and Asia. It generated revenue of €986 million (£859 million) in the 2025 financial year.

Articles by SCHOTT Pharma

PREFILLED SYRINGES

Isabelle Jeangoudoux

LAUNCHING A LARGE-VOLUME PREFILLABLE GLASS SYRINGE SYSTEM: RELIABLE SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG DELIVERY

Isabelle Jeangoudoux and Sven Pohle introduce SCHOTT Pharma’s new syriQ BioPure 5.5 mL staked-needle prefillable glass syringe and explain how this solution meets the growing need for large-volume subcutaneous drug delivery.

Philipp Ludihuser

PIONEERING PHARMACEUTICAL PACKAGING: A PUSH FOR DECARBONISATION AND CIRCULARITY

Philipp Ludihuser and Arne Kloke highlight how SCHOTT Pharma’s collaboration with customers and partners in the pharmaceutical industry reduces the carbon emissions from the production of vials, cartridges, ampoules and syringes, as well as introducing circular solutions to increase resource efficiency.

Dr Uwe Rothhaar

PACKAGING MATERIAL IDENTIFICATION TO ENSURE SELECTION OF BEST-MATCHING COMPONENTS FOR PARENTERAL DRUGS

Uwe Rothhaar, Daniel Haines, Matthias Bicker and Thomas Schmidt discuss the analytical techniques used to identify the material components and composition of primary containers for injectable drug products.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

Tom Van Ginneken

DELIVERY SOLUTIONS FOR DEEP-COLD DRUGS

Tom Van Ginneken considers how the growing pipeline of molecules that require cold storage has highlighted the need for better drug containment and delivery methods and highlights the potential SCHOTT TOPPAC^® freeze syringes offer as a potential solution.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

Michelle Deutsch

TAKING INTEGRATED NEEDLE SAFETY SYSTEMS FOR PREFILLED SYRINGES TO THE NEXT LEVEL

Michelle Deutsch and John Merhige discuss the needle safety requirements of prefilled syringes and consider how SCHOTT TOPPAC^® and syriQ^® PFS with Credence Companion^® technology combine to meet these challenges, while ensuring the device meets sustainability demands.

Dr Matthias Bicker

COMPARATIVE EXTRACTABLE STUDIES FOR INJECTABLES AND MEDICAL DEVICES ALIGNED WITH USP <1663> AND ISO 10993 GUIDELINES

Matthias Bicker, Michael Müller, Marc Mittermüller, Daniel Haines and Uwe Rothhaar discuss the regulatory requirements that need to be considered when designing an extractables and leachables study for a drug product or medical device. To illustrate the subject further, the authors provide two example studies, each following a different set of regulatory guidelines.

INDUSTRIALISATION

THE FUTURE OF SMART FILL-AND-FINISH

Diana Löber discusses new developments in digitised pharmaceutical manufacturing and the role SCHOTT’s Smart Containers can play in traceability along the entire value chain.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

Christian Helbig

FINDING THE RIGHT PACKAGING FOR BIOLOGIC DRUGS

Christian Helbig introduces a new 2.25 mL version of SCHOTT’s syriQ BioPure^® prefillable syringes designed specifically for the biologics market and, developed in partnership with WL Gore, the world’s first silicone-free glass syringe system.

Dominique Bauert

PRIMARY PACKAGING FOR WEARABLE INJECTION DEVICES

Dominique Bauert and Anil Kumar Busimi provide an overview of existing wearable injector solutions and new requirements, with a focus on the role of the primary packaging inside the devices.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

Florence Buscke

INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR PACKAGING BIOLOGICS

Florence Buscke, Nicolas Eon and Tom Van Ginneken outline SCHOTT’s offering across both glass and polymer primary containers for pharmaceuticals, emphasising their advantages in the rapidly growing biologics market.

Tom Van Ginneken

TOM VAN GINNEKEN, SCHOTT

Tom Van Ginneken discusses the advantages of polymers as a material for primary pharmaceutical packaging and how the company supports pharma manufacturers with engineering capabilities for individualised containers and rapid prototyping.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

Fabian Stöcker

CREATING PREFILLABLE SYRINGES FOR THE BIOLOGICS MARKET

Nicolas Eon and Fabian Stöcker discuss syriQ BioPure^®, a high-end prefillable syringe for biologics, which integrates seamlessly with autoinjectors and an innovative filling platform.

ADAPTIQ^® & VIALS DC

SCHOTT has expanded its adaptiQ^® portfolio of ready-to-use pharma containers to meet growing market demand from drug manufacturers and, separately, a new series of studies has once again demonstrated the effectiveness of SCHOTT Vials Delamination Controlled (Vials DC).

PREFILLED SYRINGES

Dr Folker Steden

PRODUCT SHOWCASE: SCHOTT’s SYRIQ^® AND TOPPAC^® RIGID CAPS

Schott has added new closure systems to its already extensive portfolio of prefillable syringes. Offering more flexibility for pharma companies while keeping patients safe.

Dr Folker Steden

PRODUCT SHOWCASE: PERFEXION™

perfeXion™ is a new quality approach from Schottt, which controls every inch of pharma glass tubing and with its launch the company pushes towards a zero-defect philosophy in pharmaceutical glass tubing production.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

Anil Kumar Busimi

OPTIMISATION OF SYRINGE PERFORMANCE FOR OCULAR INJECTIONS & BEYOND: IMPACT OF SILICONE OIL

Susan M Dounce and Anil Kumar Busimi describe the increasingly significant role of prefilled syringes in the delivery of ocular therapeutics.

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