Extracta is founded in Muggiò in 1951 from an idea of Mario Alquati. Initially, the production structure is a small laboratory oriented to realization of plant extracts for cosmetic and pharmaceutical industry.
In the following years the use of herbal preparations has a strong growth in the traditional sectors and at the same, we are witnessing the development of two new application areas: the food and the nutraceutical.
The new and growing market demand and the close working relationship with customers, have pushed Extracta to increase its offering and increase its production capacity, so we recently started an expansion plan by investing in a new production site and abandoning the pharmaceutical industry to concentrate production and innovation in the cosmetic, food and nutraceutical industry.
During this long journey Extracta has always excelled for some aspects such as:
In the following years the use of herbal preparations has a strong growth in the traditional sectors and at the same, we are witnessing the development of two new application areas: the food and the nutraceutical.
The new and growing market demand and the close working relationship with customers, have pushed Extracta to increase its offering and increase its production capacity, so we recently started an expansion plan by investing in a new production site and abandoning the pharmaceutical industry to concentrate production and innovation in the cosmetic, food and nutraceutical industry.
During this long journey Extracta has always excelled for some aspects such as:
- The availability to the study of personalized solutions that led the company to develop its know-how not only in relation to traditional herbal extracts, but also to more sophisticated forms of product.
- The increasing attention given to quality control that works internally through chemical and physical analysis, microbiological analysis, TLC, UV-VIS, HPLC, and externally, in collaboration with certified laboratories and university research institutes, to techniques such as LC- MS.
- The development of the spray-drying technique for the drying of plant extracts but also of flavorings and food coloring, fruit juice, protein lysates and many other substances in food and cosmetic use with the development of specific knowledge in technologically evolved areas as drying emulsions, microincapsulations, taste-masking and controlled-release systems.