Almost seven million glass bottles for up to 40 Thüringer Pharmaglas has knowingly produced millions of corona vaccinations so far. An enormous amount for a comparatively small manufacturer. The number of unreported cases could be higher, but is not comprehensible for the Neuhausen company itself. ,,ZR, 6Round lOR. These are the most common vials for filling vaccines11, says Managing Director Steffen Meinel, while holding one of the smallest ZR specimens between two fingers. And exactly this, a diameter of 1,6 centimeter owning 3,5 centimeter high vials – as the pharmaceutical glass vials are technically correct - are made on the two new machines that day, into which the Thüringer Pharmaglas GmbH & Co. KG in Neuhaus am Rennweg recently invested several million euros, among other things. In today's times for a company, in which 90 million ampoules per year in three-shift operation on four machines and in the meantime 20 bottle production lines annually 200 Millions of pharmaceutical primary packaging made of tubular glass of different glass types, in different sizes and shapes, can be produced with or without a printed motif, probably the right decision. But it was hit long before Corona – already 2016 with the start of the warehouse extension at the Schwarzburger Straße location, which made it possible to create free space in the production halls for new machines. “Thank God”, as managing director Steffen Meinel can say today. ,,We were one step ahead of the development.”