42 CHEMICALS KNOWLEDGE HUB Issue 2 / October 2025 BERNARD VIANÈS Global Director CDMO INDENA INDENA One of the most important factor for the quality of the CDMO services delivered by Indena is people. It means the human and professional resources of the whole teams working on CDMO activities, where lifelong professional experiences are fused with the enthusiasm and fresh skills of many young scientists. Because at Indena is well known that highly qualified, motivated and trained technical staff, supported by a corporate culture, strongly oriented toward quality and rigorous HSE policies, is essential to ensure that operations run safely, seamlessly and efficiently. Since 1990s, Indena acts as a strategic partner in CDMO services, going beyond the mere clientsupplier relationship, with full commitment to developing new HPAPIs and APIs, from early clinical stages to commercial-scale manufacturing. Indena’s technological and research capacity, together, represents a unique and distinctive case in the CDMO operator sector. Its leadership and excellence in custom services lie on its commitment to continuously investing on new and updated equipment and technologies, as well as on talented researchers. The company’s goal is to offer its customers the possibility of carrying out synthetic processes in a wide range of conditions, both for naturally derived molecules (from botanical sources or from microbial fermentation) requiring semisynthetic steps and for total-synthetic molecules. Leveraging on its analytical, development and manufacturing capabilities, Indena positions its services in a high added value segment, producing complex molecules requiring both leading technologies and significant expertise in R&D and industrialization. As a highly reliable Western European API producer, Indena displays a key uniqueness on Highly Potent APIs down to 1ng/ m3 OEL, irrespective of their source, for which Indena is highly skilled and well equipped. Nowadays Indena manufactures 10 commercial HPAPIs and 12 clinical phase HPAPIs: fully synthetic, semi-synthetic and fermentation molecules. This is now one of the company’s core areas of expertise. Each substance within Indena is assigned an Occupational Exposure Level and allocated to the proper production line according to the required handling and containment rules.
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