Indena is the leading company dedicated to the identification, development and production of high quality active principles derived from plants, for use in the pharmaceutical and health food industries.
Backed up by a century of botanical experience, the company owns 100 patent families, has published more than 1000 scientific studies and co-operates with the world’s most prestigious universities and private research institutions.
Indena employs over 900 staff, investing a significant amount of its annual turnover in research, making this activity the key to its success.
Headquartered in Milan, Indena has 4 production sites and 5 international branches throughout the world and manages sales in more than 80 countries.
The company's experts communicate and interact constantly with the major international regulatory authorities and cooperate on the update of all the main pharmacopoeias.
CDMO activities are the priority in Indena’s strategic vision. Today, Indena has a multipurpose GMP pilot plant equipped with reactor ranging from 1000 lt to 10,000 lt; a kilo lab LK2 to offer different capacities for products at the highest containment level (OEL 20 ng/m3 or OEB5); a large and a mid-size spray dryer working with organic solvents; a 20-liter hydrogenator being complemented by a 250-liter hydrogenator (ready at the end of 2022) to satisfy a wider demand for this kind of chemistry.