Aboca was founded in 1978 and from the beginning its principal objective has been to bring to the modern consumer medicinal herbal products as tools to promote health and well being.

Aboca understood that in order to achieve these objectives it needed to resolve a few important problems that had not been seriously dealt with, issues such as obtaining standardized and high quality raw materials void of pollutants; assessing the phytochemical profile of these materials; verifying the effectiveness of traditional remedies; obtaining concentrated derivatives in order to create modern forms of consumption such as drops and capsules.

The resolution of these important problems was found in "vertical production." Through the refinement of agronomic and manufacturing processes and through collaboration with universities in this field, Aboca responded to these issues and was able to meet its principal objective. It began experimenting with organic production on its own land, which allowed Aboca to obtain raw materials without the use of chemical substances and to cultivate the variety of plants with the highest content of active ingredients.

Aboca researched and developed cultivation techniques specific to each species, as well as methods for combatting insects and parasites without the use of pesticides.

It designed new machines specialized to process medicinal herbs, and created modern and innovative drying ovens and harvesting machines in order to capture the essence of the medicinal herbs.
During this time Aboca developed the company's first important patented process.

This process utilized a new way of conserving the medicinal herbs by vacuum-packing. This method offers notable advantages over traditional techniques.

At the same time Aboca focused on the chemical research of cultivated species along with the creation of specialized processing machinery that allowed it to concentrate active ingredients in order to create modern forms of herbal remedies such as drops, capsules, and tablets.

The first derivative products were alcohol extracts used to make drops and highly concentrated capsules containing the "Total Concentrate," another important company patent that consists of blending the dried extract with the micronized powder of the same herb, avoiding the use of inert excipients.

The objective of augmenting the concentration of the phytocomplex is still important for the company, which in recent years, with a rise in public knowledge and technology, has created other great innovations: freeze-dried extracts and tablets without excipients.

These last twenty years have witnessed both a scientific and financial growth in the medicinal herb market, which has gone from being an area of special interest to an alternative health aid for everyone.
Aboca believes it has contributed to this evolution.

It has always invested in the development and diffusion of a scientific culture of medicinal plants-financing scholarships in scientific research, organizing courses and seminars for doctors, pharmacists and herbalists, and publishing books and articles.

Today, tangible proof of Aboca's commitment is represented by the sponsoring of various university courses in herbalist techniques and in particular in its collaboration with the University of Padua.

Another important commitment has always been to promote a law regulating the entire process from production to distribution for the protection of the consumer. Certainly, in these twenty years the herbal sector has made great strides forward, but we believe that we are still only at the beginning and will continue to work to always bring our contribution of innovation and knowledge.