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Four decades of making natural botanical ingredients
After four decades of producing high-quality and standardised botanical ingredients, Linnea celebrates its anniversary by continuing to advance its presence in existing markets, while pioneering advances in cannabinoids, an emerging ingredient of the future.
his year, Linnea celebrates its 40-year anniversary producing high-quality and standardised botanical ingredients. It sells to over 70 different countries all over the globe and serves more than 250 customers each year. Linnea is an innovative, cutting-edge API producer located in Ticino, Switzerland. Working out of its green- focused, GMP-certified facility, Linnea produces a range of natural botanical extracts, isolates and ready-made oil solutions. Since 1982, Linnea has been providing these unparalleled, high-quality ingredients for use in the pharmaceutical, cosmetics and dietary industries. Linnea’s core mission and purpose is to improve people’s lives with its trusted range of standardised ingredients.
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Natural ingredients to improve people’s lives Linnea’s suite of products includes a selection of beneficial botanical ingredients including bilberry, ginkgo biloba, red clover, 5-HTP, HMR lignan, vinpocetine, vincamine, butylscopolamine and cannabinoids. Linnea’s bilberry extract is rich in antioxidants and anthocyanins. The bilberries are grown wild in northern European forests and transformed into GMP-certified extracts. Linnea’s ginkgo biloba is grown on carefully selected farms to ensure ingredient-rich leaves and processed in its in-house facility, resulting in pharmaceutical and food-grade ingredients defined by excellence. Linnea’s red clover is composed of a precise and standardised ratio of four different and uniquely valuable isoflavones.
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Linnea is the sole owner of its red clover seeds ensuring a consistent and rich phytocomplex from batch-to-batch. Linnea’s 5-HTP is derived from the
wild Griffonia simplicifolia seeds in sub-Saharan Africa. It is a guaranteed 99% pure amino acid compound often used as a dietary ingredient for sleep improvement, enhancing mood and appetite control. Linnea’s HMR lignan is one of the only lignan sources derived from the wood knots of Norway Spruce and contains significantly more beneficial lignans than any other dietary sources. It can be used as a powerful antioxidant, to help reduce hot flashes in menopause and as a collagen and elastin enhancer. Linnea’s vinpocetine and vincamine are derived from Voacanga africana seeds. Their use in the dietary ingredient market is to improve concentration, memory and to enhance neuroprotection.
Since 1985, Linnea has been producing butylscopolamine, used for smooth muscle relaxation and the reduction of abdominal muscle spasm.
Cannabinoids: A rising ingredient In 2016, Linnea launched its line of cannabinoid products. These products provide much-needed standardised, GMP- certified ingredients to this emerging global market. Linnea produces cannabinoids in its Swiss facilities ensuring safety, efficacy and standardisation. The company currently produces two valuable cannabinoids: cannabidiol (CBD) and cannabigerol (CBG). Linnea’s CBD and CBG are both available in full spectrum extracts and 99% pure isolate forms, in pharma-grade and food-grade. Its CBD
products are submitted and validated for Novel Food Applications in the UK and EU. Linnea sells its cannabinoid ingredients globally to the pharmaceutical, dietary ingredients and cosmetics industries. Linnea is truly a leader in cannabinoid science and innovation as it is rare to find GMP-certified, pharmaceutical-grade CBD and CBG extracts.
Environmental commitment Linnea has a deep commitment to sustainability and positive environmental impact programmes. It partners with local farmers in the Swiss canton of Ticino to convert organic waste into energy to heat local homes thanks to a shared biogas plant. Linnea voluntarily adheres to the Swiss Private Sector Energy Agency Program, significantly reducing the company’s CO2 footprint to ensure sustainability.
Manufacturing excellence Every ingredient that enters the Linnea production line has been selected according to good agricultural and collection practices. Raw materials are extracted and processed in the company’s in-house facilities, resulting in safe, secure, pharmaceutical and food-grade ingredients that comply with Europe’s stringent standards. With strict protocols, its quality control system ensures the consistency and standardisation of each batch, with results that can be duplicated providing the reliability essential to the pharmaceutical, cosmetics and dietary ingredient industries. ●
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