Alba® Glass Syringes for Ophthalmics and Biologics - Stevanato Group
Stevanato Group's Alba® syringes reduce drug-container interaction risks for biologics and ophthalmics, ensuring safety, stability and efficacy. Learn more!
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Complex biologic drugs encounter several challenges in primary packaging. Any interaction between the drug and the prefilled syringe can affect stability and treatment efficacy. For instance, silicone could interact with the drug, and tungsten residues may lead to protein degradation or aggregation.

Alba® syringes represent the best-in-class solution for highly sensitive biologics and ophthalmic applications, minimizing the risk of drug-container interaction and addressing the key requirements of protein-based drugs, and minimizing adsorption, aggregation and inorganic extractable interaction. 

Alba® Syringes: Advanced Coating for Enhanced Stability for Highly Sensitive Drugs

All Alba® products have an internal coating based on cross-linked silicone oil. It ensures that particle levels - caused by silicone migration during container storage - are significantly lower than standard siliconization technologies.

Moreover, the internal treatment offers superior and stable gliding performances, reducing the risk of functional issues when combined with autoinjectors, even throughout shelf-life. 

Alba® syringes are only available as prefillable solutions in our EZ-fill®  configuration. 

Watch the video about Alba® syringe features and advantages and discover the manufacturing process. 

Optimized Glass Syringes for Autoinjectors: Consistent Injection Performance 

The low silicone-drug interaction helps to maintain the injection time and dose delivery in combination with an autoinjector.

Alba® Syringes Mitigate Packaging-Related Risks, Enhance Drug Stability and Provide Consistent Injection Performance

Alba® breakthrough solution employs a plasma treatment on silicone-oil coating, creating a layer that ensures exceptional stability and performance over time.

STAKED NEEDLE LUER

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RNS

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OVS

0.5mL
1mL long
2.25mL

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Upcoming

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Key Benefits of Alba® Syringes

Benefits
184 Syringe Alba

De-risking drug-silicone interaction 
Near-zero subvisible particles level compared to conventional sprayed-on siliconized PFS 

97 Time OK (1)

Injection Time consistency 
Cross-linked coating prevents silicone migration that impacts the extrusion forces and injection time. 

65 Container Interaction

Shelf-life improvement 
Alba® inner coating does not undergo critical variations after contact with drug products, even in presence of silicone-aggressive or highly concentrated solutions (e.g. surfactants). 

92B Filled Syringe Particles

Inorganic extractable mitigation 
The coating between the drug and the glass reduces the amount of inorganic extractables 

Optimal Syringe Solution for Biologics, mRNA, and Ophthalmic Treatments 

Alba® syringes meet the needs of highly sensitive biologic drugs. 

Preferred Market Choice
431 Protein Peptide

Protein-based therapeutics

252 Eye

Ophthalmic applications

430 Mrna

mRNA-based applications

White Paper: Solving the Silicone Challenge in Syringes

How Stevanato Group’s breakthrough Alba® platform ensures stability for sensitive drugs

White Paper: Container Selection for a Highly Sensitive Drug Product: a Success Story

Discover the importance for pharmaceutical companies to utilize the experience of container suppliers from start to finish.

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