WTVM News Leader 9 has written about Auburn-based SiO2 Materials Science, previously featured here, and their contribution to the COVID-19 vaccine effort. WTVM writes:
There is some good news on the COVID-19 vaccine front.
The biotech company Moderna, said its vaccine is nearly 95 percent effective, and an East Alabama-based company is playing an integral role in that vaccine’s distribution and storage.
Auburn-based company SiO2 Materials Science is producing unique vials that hold doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine.
“For us, we’ve been shipping vials to the companies, including Moderna, since August of this year,” said Lawrence Ganti, the Chief Business Officer of SiO2.
SiO2 struck a $143 million contract with the federal government back in June to ramp up production of this vials, each of which contains seven to ten doses of the vaccine. Ganti said they have shipped more than 20 million of these vials so far to Moderna and other pharma companies producing Coronavirus vaccines.
“We joke, but it’s like saving the world one vial at a time,” he said.
Read more and watch WTVM’s video coverage of SiO2 Materials Science here.
