Vials/Bottles

A drug or pharmaceutical bottle is a rigid plastic or glass container with a capacity of certain volume of capacity with or without a cap to contain drugs, pharmaceuticals, medicine or special chemicals.

Composition of A drug or pharmaceutical bottle, vials, or container

Basically, there are two main kinds of materials for a drug or pharmaceutical bottle/container: plastic and glass. 

Plastics are more and more popular these years because of its good durability and convenience, and cost effectiveness.

Plastic forming processes

Plastic materials consist of organic molecules which have chemically or physically properties.

Injection moulding and blow moulding are two main plastic forming processes or plastic moulding techniques for various drug or pharmaceutical bottles, vials, or containers.

Plastic materials include Polyvinyl chloride (PVC), Polycarbonate (PC), Polypropylene (PP), Polyethylene terephthalate (PET), Polyethylene (High Density) HDPE), Polyethylene (Low Density) LDPE (LLDPE).

Both of vials and ampules are playing an active and important role in storing fluid or solid drugs, pharma medicine, or chemicals for end users nowadays and both of them would be mainly in glass or plastics which depends on the usages, contains inside, cost, and requirements of storage or transportation.

An ampule typically indicates a sealed opening container without caps or stoppers and one time used products to protect its content from air or humidity exposure to keep the purity and potency. You need to break its extended sealed neck when you open it. It’s made of plastics or glass.

It’s a great choice for unstable chemical elements and certain volume used for end users.

A vial is a also made of plastic or glass, usually together with a screw cap or rubber stopper for sealing and it can be used more than once by re-capping it. It’s usually larger than the ampoules.