1921-2025 100 years of botanical excellence
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Our Story
1921-2025 100 years of botanical excellence
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Our Story
Nothing is permanent, but everything can be remembered.
Since 1921, in a landscape of conservative nature lovers, we have been the progressive people looking at nature in another way, through science, constantly following the plants.
History moves as fast as Indena’s innovations: 100 years of ideas, inventions, products and patents that, in addition to leaving a permanent mark on the industry of nature, have been woven into the history of Italy.
Embrace our journey through time, to understand how we have always transformed nature into something that may be powerful and useful, and to know more about Indena’s role both for the phytochemical culture and for human health at large.
A Book to celebrate our centennial
A special book for Indena: the story of our long journey in Nature and Science, starting over 100 years ago and always ready to write a new chapter.
DIVE INTO OUR JOURNEY THROUGH TIME
Indena has changed along with Nature since 1921, innovating every step of the way. To celebrate our 100 years of history, we created the Phytocast Podcast Series: an original way to share our exciting journey through time with you.
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An innovative plant opened in Settala
The new production site was opened just outside Milan, in Settala. The factory was a model of innovation right from the outset, utilizing the latest machinery and laboratory equipment. Regular refurbishment and further modernization have taken place since then and today the facility is one of the most innovative in the sector for the extraction and processing of botanical extracts, employing the most sophisticated technologies able to process both botanically derived ingredients and specific molecules.
Under the guidance of Luigi Della Beffa new markets are explored and the business is expanded abroad.
1950s
Luigi Della Beffa entered the company
Luigi Della Beffa, son of the founder Biagio Alberto Della Beffa, joined the company. His vision directed the company to further expand its business relations, dealing with major pharmaceutical brands. The company began the manufacture of finished medicinal products, based on its own plant derivatives.
1940s
Headquarters and new plant in Milan
Production began in Milan but was transferred to Alzano Lombardo in 1943 to continue during wartime. In 1945, at the end of World War II, production returned to Milan, where a new modern plant was built to meet the needs of a business that not only had never stopped, but had continued to grow. With its scientific approach and continuous focus on quality and excellence, laboratory research and development was stepped up and top sector specialists brought in. Manufacturing output would combine botanical extracts with fine chemicals such as alkaloids, glycosides and amino acids.
1930s
A new paradigm in botanicals’ production
The founders indeed opened the way to a totally new approach in dealing with the business of medicinal plants, applying a modern industrial vision. Their aim was to make available to users, at that time mainly pharmacies, not just medicinal plants themselves, which offered insufficient guarantees of efficacy and stability, but instead extracts from these plants titrated in their active ingredients. Dosage was therefore easier and chemical identification safer. Quality, scientific inspiration and rigour, industrial approach: these are the pillars that allow the company to stand out in the Italian market.
