"Valor" glass from Corning Pharmaceutical Technologies is used for the small glass vials that contain the 5 or 6 doses of vaccine that are the last repository before going into a syringe and then into a person's arm.

Here's why--and there's quite a lot to it.

"The tough little bottles crucial to fighting Covid"
Chris Baraniuk for BBC News; February 2, 2021.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55808640

Read-o-Meter: 4 minutes 30 seconds.

I suspect that story found its genesis in a different kind of bottle.

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quote Originally posted by williegoat: I suspect that story found its genesis in a different kind of bottle.

That's hilarious! Figures Merle would find his way into this.

Great read on the little bottle. Corning has done some pretty cool stuff over the years.

quote Originally posted by MarkS: Great read on the little bottle. Corning has done some pretty cool stuff over the years.

If you're ever up this way, go to the Corning Glass visitors center and museum in Corning.

Marc

quote Originally posted by OldsFiero: If you're ever up this way, go to the Corning Glass visitors center and museum in Corning. Marc

Sounds interesting.

Who first used brown bottles ?

Clue. A dark brown glass bottle gives some protection to the beer, but green and clear glass bottles offer virtually no protection at all.

quote Originally posted by OldsFiero: If you're ever up this way, go to the Corning Glass visitors center and museum in Corning. Marc

Hi Marc,

We've been there. We love going to Corning in the fall and cruising Market St and then on to the Lake Seneca wineries. Not last fall of course because of this ******* virus. But hopefully, next year!

My company had a business relationship with Corning Photonics before the Telecom crash many years ago (20!), we were just getting our foot in the door there when Wham! it was all over. Someone turned around and looked at all the bloated photonics inventories behind them and all the deployed dark unlit fiber. The DOT COM bust. Shame, because now with the advent of 5G and work / school from home, bandwidth requirements are escalating. 'course, the stuff is now coming from....ahhh never mind..

Interesting. Yeah, they have made a variety of stuff including the substrate for catalytic converters. They have a small plant the other side of Franklin mountain in Oneonta.
BTW, we went to Flemington years ago to watch sprint cars at the dirt track there. I hear it's gone now. To bad, it was a fast track. Luckily, we still have a lot of dirt tracks in NY.
Marc

quote Originally posted by OldsFiero: Interesting. Yeah, they have made a variety of stuff including the substrate for catalytic converters. They have a small plant the other side of Franklin mountain in Oneonta. BTW, we went to Flemington years ago to watch sprint cars at the dirt track there. I hear it's gone now. To bad, it was a fast track. Luckily, we still have a lot of dirt tracks in NY. Marc

Yeah, its gone. To add salt to that, there is a Walmart & Lowes where it used to be. Summer Saturdays you could hear them roar from my house, I loved it.

quote Originally posted by cliffw: Who first used brown bottles ? Clue. A dark brown glass bottle gives some protection to the beer, but green and clear glass bottles offer virtually no protection at all.

I have an antique Schlitz beer bottle which is clear glass.

quote Originally posted by cliffw: Sounds interesting. Who first used brown bottles ? Clue. A dark brown glass bottle gives some protection to the beer, but green and clear glass bottles offer virtually no protection at all.

Little brown bottle with me 24/7

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