SCHOTT has inaugurated a primary pharmaceutical packaging production site in Zavolzhe, near the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod. The new production site will employ approximately 60 employees initially and will produce premium quality ampoules and vials.

“We are the first international group which manufactures primary pharmaceutical packaging made of glass to open a production facility in Russia,” said Professor Dr. Udo Ungeheuer, chairman of SCHOTT AG, at the plant inauguration. “With this new plant, we are further expanding our position as the leading supplier to the pharmaceutical industry in Russia.”

SCHOTT Pharmaceutical Systems supplies glass tubing and primary packaging for the pharmaceutical industry. The company has been selling ampoules, vials, cartridges and syringes to the Russian market already since the beginning of the 1990s. Until now, Russian customers have been mainly supplied from SCHOTT’s existing pharmaceutical packaging site in Hungary.

“With our new facility in Zavolzhe, we are able to satisfy local demands even better than before,” said Dr. Juergen Sackhoff, executive vice president of SCHOTT Pharmaceutical Systems.

The new plant for primary pharmaceutical packaging is the company’s second production site in Russia. The company already runs a flat glass processing plant in Bor, near the city of Nizhny Novgorod, that supplies the household appliance industry. SCHOTT established a delegate office in Moscow, the Russian capital, in 1995.