PDA EU00189 Best Practices for Glass Primary Containers

Markus Heinz has a bachelor’s degree in industrial and mechanical engineering as
well as a master’s degree in international management. He joined Syntegon Technology GmbH (former Bosch Packaging Technology) in 2008.

During his first years, he was a sales manager for handling complex customer projects within the D-A-CH region.

Since 2019, he is the globally responsible product manager for vial liquid and powder applications. His expertise includes process engineering, bulk and ready-to-use handling, filling and closing technologies for liquid and powder medications, aseptic and high-potent Isolator applications as well as topics related to advanced aseptic processing. He is a frequent speaker on international symposia.

Florian Maurer earned his doctorate in Materials Science and Engineering in 2007 at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. Since then, he has been with SCHOTT with focus on strength, reliability & lifetime and fracture analysis of glass primary packaging containers used in the pharmaceutical industry. Florian and his team provide a powerful toolbox for the identification, characterization and the assessment of flaw-creating mechanisms, which can occur during manufacturing, processing and transportation of glassware.

Serena Panighello is a research scientist at EMEA Technology Excellence Center, Stevanato Group. Her role is mainly related to the study of glass corrosion mechanisms and container-drug interaction consultancy. She is involved in the advanced analytical services that TEC Lab offers to the Pharma customers to understand the container’s properties and performances with respect to the customer needs and to mitigate and reduce the risk of interaction of containers with the drugs. She is a member of TC02 and TC12 of ICG (International Commission on Glass). She earned a PhD in Chemical Sciences at Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy) within a joint research program with the National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana (Slovenia). During the PhD, she was awarded the Paul Award for the best presentation at the New Researchers Forum during the SGT (Society of Glass Technology) annual Conference in Durham (UK).

Folker Steden graduated as a Chemist from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn, Germany. He completed his PhD doctoral thesis in Inorganic Chemistry at Bonn and New Brunswick, Canada before joining SCHOTT for technical and pharmaceutical tubing applications.

Since 2012, he has been leading the Product Management Team of the tubing division of SCHOTT. With his excellent scientific background and intercultural skills, he is working between customers and local R&D units, focusing on future customer needs.

Folker presents frequently in international conferences on subjects related to special glass for technical and pharmaceutical applications.

Sonja started 12 years ago as a team manager at QC incoming goods lab. Here she was able to pursue her quality standards and broad interest in materials and processes but with a special focus, on accompanying the manufacturing processes, tests, and defect patterns of glass packaging materials for 5 years.

For a further 6 years, she also led several teams of experts in the quality control of incoming goods, dealing with regulatory requirements and their systematic implementation, as well as change and method management as part of supplier quality management. Thanks to her broad expertise in these areas, she has now taken over the role of Lead Manager for incoming goods.