Joint venture to manufacture high-quality vials

The German technology group SCHOTT and the Japanese company Naigai Glass Industry CoLtd have founded a joint venture for pharmaceutical packaging activities in Japan effective October 1, 2010. The new company is called SCHOTT NAIGAI K K and is based in Osaka, Japan, where Naigai has already been operating a production site for many years.

The new joint venture will manufacture high-quality vials for the Japanese pharmaceutical industry mainly from SCHOTT’s pharmaceutical tubing glass “Fiolax”.