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Why Is Stainless Steel Widely Used In The Pharmaceutical Industry?


 Starting from the small zipper to huge industries such as chemicals, civil plants, food and beverages – in each industry stainless steel has been playing a major role since 1913 when it was named ‘rustless steel’ by Harry Brearley because of its corrosion and rust resistance.

Time by time, stainless steel became a quickly adaptive material to use in numerous industries and even after that kitchenary industry took a quiet time to favour it in use as both better and bitter results were getting expected, at last in the 1940s and 50s this situation took its turning point and stainless steel get in use for the first time. 

After that pharmaceutical industry was the second most cautionable sector, but as this sector started utilising it with its high durability, easy sanitization, and high-temperature tolerance stainless steel left no option for the pharmaceutical sector to take a back switch to steel.

Today, the stainless steel market is globally sized at the value of USD $111.44 billion in 2022 with expected growth of 7.4% CAGR from 2023 to 2030.

However, in the pharmaceutical industry – there are multiple stainless steel uses such as tanks, pipe works, hypodermic needles, orthopaedic implants,  pressure vessels, and many others. Just like these objects get used in different parts of the pharma field, the grade of stainless steel also varies as per the industrial and product requirements.

Let’s look into more on this, and get to know how stainless steel is covering each pharmaceutical industry’s requirements.

Role of Stainless Steel in the Pharmaceutical Industry

The pharmaceutical industry is where medicine-related discoveries take place, then get in beneath development, and fall out of the medicines manufacturing on mass production after which it becomes available to the market for patients.


In each of these mentioned procedures, there are multiple tests under which this medication goes and to sustain the same quality to get served in the market the specific environmental and corrosion resistance, with in built durability of high temperatures, and consistent cleanliness is necessary.


And that’s what exactly stainless steel offers with different grades of stainless steel that include: 304, 309, 316, and 318, Let’s see how each of them benefits the pharmaceutical industry.

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