Corning® Viridian™ Vials

Reducing glass waste and manufacturing emissions, while enabling faster and safer fill finish operations.

Performance Meets Sustainability

The pharmaceutical industry and the broader life sciences play a paramount role in global health, making life-saving medications accessible and continually pushing the boundaries of medical innovation. However, the magnitude of these operations also creates an environmental footprint that cannot be ignored.

Reducing carbon emissions, raw material usage, and material waste is essential to ensuring the long-term health of the planet and the people who inhabit it.

Corning^® Viridian™ Vials, externally coated Type 1 borosilicate vials, are a drop-in solution made with 20% less glass material, enabling up to a 30% reduction in Cradle to Gate, Scope 3 emissions.

Viridian Vials can protect product quality and boost filling line productivity – helping our customers increase production in a more environmentally friendly package.

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Product Benefits

Sustainable Design

Performance Accelerator

Protecting Quality

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Features and Benefits

Sustainable Design

By reducing the vial's wall thickness by 30%, Viridian Vials are made with 20% less glass than conventional vials. The reduction in material enabling up to a 30% reduction in Cradle to Gate, Scope 3 emissions.

Viridian Vials' material reduction means less raw material is extracted from the environment and less material waste is sent to landfill at end-of-life. The material reduction combined with 100% renewable electricity in the manufacturing process, enables a meaningful reduction in our customers Scope 3 emissions.

Performance Accelerator

Vial-to-vial and glass-to-metal friction, along with vial impact, are leading sources of reduced efficiency and yield in the drug filling process. Corning’s proprietary coating reduces friction and protects the base glass from damage, enabling faster line speeds and improved operational efficiency.

Viridian Vials can impove filling line efficiency by 20 - 50% compared to conventional glass vials.

Protecting Quality

Viridian Vials’ protective external coating can reduce damage that leads to cracks, breaks, and cosmetic rejects.

Viridian Vials exhibit the same or better breakage rate as compared to conventional vials in a horizontal compression strength test after representative filling line damage.

Corning’s external coating can also reduce glass particulates from fill- finish by up to 96%.

Bring Science to Life. Sustainably.

Product Design

Drop-In Solution

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The external dimensions of Viridian Vials are unchanged from ISO standards. The vials meet <USP 660> requirements for surface glass, glass grains, and surface etch.

The product is compatable with existing filling lines and container closure systems without the need for change parts. The critical to quality (CTQ) dimensions remain unchanged. Container closure integrity (CCI) was demonstrated at room temperature and -80°C with standard stoppers and caps.

We have also demonstrated compatibility with cold storage conditions, with Viridian Vials showing improved mechanical reliability over conventional vials at -40°C during internal testing.

The external dimensions of Viridian Vials are unchanged from ISO standards. The vials meet <USP 660> requirements for surface glass, glass grains, and surface etch.

The product is compatible with existing filling lines and container closure systems without the need for change parts. The critical to quality (CTQ) dimensions remain unchanged. Container closure integrity (CCI) was demonstrated at room temperature and -80°C with standard stoppers and caps.

We have also demonstrated compatibility with cold storage conditions, with Viridian Vials showing improved mechanical reliability over conventional vials at -40°C during internal testing.

Life Cycle Assessment

Reduced Cradle-to-Gate Carbon Emissions

A life cycle assessment (LCA) is a standard methodology used to quantify the potential environmental impacts of a product or process. It is performed by calculating the GHG emissions associated with the entire life cycle of the product. To analyze the carbon footprint of Viridian Vials, all substances needed upstream for its production are considered, as well as electricity and other utilities in what is called a cradle-to-gate analysis. This consideres all the resources needed and emissions caused by raw material extraction ("cradle"), their processing and melting into glass tubing, final manufacturing into a vial, and final transportation to filling operstions ("gate").

Viridian Vials can reduce life cycle carbon emissions by up to 30%. The data and calculations for this claim were assessed and certified with an LCA by Sphera.

A life cycle assessment (LCA) is a standard methodology used to quantify the potential environmental impacts of a product or process. It is performed by calculating the GHG emissions associated with the entire life cycle of the product. To analyze the carbon footprint of Viridian Vials, all substances needed upstream for its production are considered, as well as electricity and other utilities in what is called a cradle-to-gate analysis. This considers all the resources needed and emissions caused by raw material extraction ("cradle"), their processing and melting into glass tubing, final manufacturing into a vial, and final transportation to filling operations ("gate").

Viridian Vials can reduce life cycle carbon emissions by up to 30%. The data and calculations for this claim were assessed and certified with an LCA by Sphera.

The Corning Advantage

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The work you do every day has the power to improve and change lives. As you unravel the mysteries of complex diseases in your quest to cure the incurable. As you harness the potential of cell and gene therapies to accelerate patient access to life-changing remedies. As you generate 3D cell models and streamline workflow for high throughput drug screening. At Corning we’re with you every step of the way.

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Our Commitment

Corning is paving the way for cleaner air, cleaner water,
and healthier generations tocome. For Corning’s Life Sciences
business segments this means bringing science to life sustainably,
from research to drug delivery.

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Application

Solving your primary packaging issues

Corning’s sustained investment in research, development, and engineering capabilities means we’re always ready to solve the toughest challenges alongside our customers. We work hand-in-hand with your team to assess the need, identify key opportunities, and align these areas of opportunity to one of our distinct value programs.

Productivity Increase
Get the most out of your existing lines by increasing efficiency and yield.
Cost Reduction
Viridian Vials can reduce total cost of ownership by improving fill-finish productivity, lowering API loss, and reducing downtime.
Quality Improvement
Thanks to Corning’s patented external vial coating, Viridian Vials can help to reduce cosmetics defects and lower the risk of drug recall due to glass particle contamination.
Sustainability Improvement
Align primary packaging with your broader ESG goals. See how Viridian Vials can reduce your Scope 1 and 2 emissions.

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North America
Brendan Bradley
Business Development Director
bradleyb@corning.com
+1 484-883-8410

Europe
Nico Spribille
Commercial Director
SpribillN@corning.com
+49 160-9283-1700

Asia
Weijia Jia
Commercial Director
jiaw2@corning.com
+86 21-0450-4109

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