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Last July, ILSA successfully renewed its ISO certifications, passing the triennial renewal audit for ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015, as well as the annual surveillance for ISO 50001:2018. ISO stands for...

Chiara Manoli, President of ECOFI and Regulatory Affairs Manager at ILSA, explains that the main goal of the Manifesto is to promote greater attention to circularity in the new European regulations governing the...

Paolo Girelli, president of ILSA, has been recently elected president of Assofertilizzanti-Federchimica. The appointment took place during the recent assembly for the renewal of positions within the confederation...

QCertificazioni, the body responsible for verifying the correct application of the standards required by the Italian Association of Organic Agriculture (AIAB), has recently renewed the AIAB Technical Means certification for ILSA....

Ilsa has obtained the Certiquality certification in accordance with the Assofertilizzanti Disciplinary Regulations for the year 2022. This significant achievement allows the company to proudly display the prestigious Quality Mark introduced in 2014, following the program...

ILSA became a pioneer of the circular economy when it was founded in 1956 to enhance leather trimmings in agriculture, which were considered waste from the tanning industry. Over time it has diversified its raw materials by looking at plant sources and the year 2023 will see the launch...

As part of a school-to-work alternation project promoted by ILSA and the Applied Sciences Scientific High School "Martino Martini" of Mezzolombardo, three third-year classes were involved in the reuse of waste generated by the wine sector...

ILSA has received the certification that all the electricity purchased during 2022 used in its production plants in Arzignano and Molfetta was obtained exclusively from renewable sources. That was possible thanks to the collaboration with...

On November 2, J.M. Huber Corporation (Huber) acquired the Biolchim Group, which includes Ilsa SpA (Ilsa). Ilsa is a Vicenza-based company founded in 1956 specializing in biotechnology, 60% of which was acquired by the Biolchim Group in February 2017....

There are just 25 companies who have been awarded the Assofertilizzanti Quality Mark for 2021 from the main Italian fertilisers industries association. ILSA is proud to have obtained the quality certification; a recognition that goes far beyond mere compliance with legal obligation...

Several agronomical practises are approaching: sowing of autumn-winter cereals, transplant of winter vegetables in the field and greenhouse vegetables and winter interventions in fruiting systems. Now is the time for ILSA’s new products to allow effective...

In agronomic tests carried out in Piacenza in 2019, Ilsa technicians found that the company bio-stimulants assisted an increase in yields and Bx degrees on industrial tomato crops of the H1015 variety...

Last September 2019, ILSA agronomists obtained higher yield and size of the grapes in Red Globe table grapes in the vineyards of Agrigento, without applying synthetic gibberellins and cytokinins. This also promotes good bud fertility for...

Between August and September, Ilsa is extending invites to visit its experimental fields in the vineyards located in historic regions of Prosecco and Amarone production. Reserved to agricultural technicians and wine growers, the visits aim to show ...

Cucumber growers can use ILSAPOLICOS of ILSA, a 100% plant-based bio-stimulant, as the ideal technical input for the development of healthy and...

In 2019, several organic farmers have obtained higher yields and grapes using ILSA biostimulants and fertilizers. These have also generated...

The Italian Input List is public and can be accessed free of charge by organic farmers, inspection and certification bodies, authorities, manufacturers of inputs and any interested parties. Certified organic farmers can check the list for...

The project name is 3S_4H, a play on words and numbers, which stands for Safe, Smart, Sustainable Food for Health. The project involves nineteen partners committed in the search of the food of the future...

The fluctuating temperatures of the past few weeks are endangering buds and blooms. To cope with this critical moment and avoid production losses, the drop of flowers must be prevented...

ILSA will attend Agrotica 2020 on the 30th and 31st of January, together with its distributor Eurofarm. It is an opportunity to present the positive results obtained by IlsaC-on...

TRIACON 5000 is a product by ILSA that is intended for the industry. It comprises of 5000 mg/kg of triacontanol of natural origin. Its development is attributed to the collaboration between the ILSA Research Centre and external scientific partners who believed in...

The cultivation of artichoke in Sardinia is of ancient tradition and continues to cover 40% of the regional horticultural area (Source: Agris). Until the beginning of the last century...

ILSA has added the AIAB technical standard among its environmental certifications since 2017. The AIAB protocol includes ethical and social aspects...

Already at full capacity the new mixing and pelleting plant increases the production of organic and organo-mineral fertilizers by 50% in comparison to the previous...

ILSA has perfected a new fertilization strategy that, even at half dosage, is able to counteract fluctuating climatic trends and guarantee yields....

Fruit and vegetables, once detached from the plant, continue to breathe and ripe. In order to ensure that fruits like kiwis, apples, plums, peaches, apricots, bananas, tomatoes and other climacteric-defined fruits, have a post-harvest long life or the so-called shelf-life...

With the increasing demand of ILSA fertilizers for sustainable agriculture in South America, the company is boosting its production capacity thanks to a new high-tech plant...

The annual financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2018 have been approved by the ILSA Board of Directors. The net profit is currently at 1,609,101 euros as...

The improvement in the quality characteristics of fruits today, more than ever before, concerns the duration in post-harvest, also referred to as the so-called "shelf-life"...

The Enzymatic Hydrolysate of Fabaceae, with a 100% plant origin and recognized within the "biostimulant" category by Italian legislation (Legislative Decree 75/2010), has confirmed its effectiveness in terms of the increase of...

Four years of tests, carried out in Abruzzo on the Montepulciano vineyards, has confirmed the undisputed effect of Ilsa’s Viridem^® biostimulants on the increase in the quality of...

To improve the effectiveness of the weeding and to favor a quick recovery of the plants from the stress of the treatment, Ilsa recommends ILSAMIN N90 – a natural biostimulant obtained by an enzymatic hydrolysis process...

Launched in 2015 and co-funded by the EU under the 2014–20 LIFE programme, LIFE BIOPOL has demonstrated that is possible to further utilize industrial by-products, otherwise destined for landfills, in order to produce low impact chemicals for the leather sector...

The latest product from the Ilsa research department is a much - needed fertilizer – an efficient nitrogen and potassium organic fertilizer for fertigation and foliar application. ETIXAMIN BIO-K is a formulation...

The Ilsa company laboratory achieves impeccable results in the inter-laboratory tests organized by the UNICHIM, the Association for the Unification of the Chemical Industry Sector, confirming the reliability of the products analysis. This means extra safety for farmers who choose Ilsa’s fertilizers and biostimulants for their crops.

Transplantation and repotting often represent a critical phase for plants; This change in growth is worsened at wintertime and other low-temperature phases. To obtain well-lignified and robust plants, after the first post-transplantation fertigation, Ilsa recommends the use of Ilsamin N90 in association with Ilsamin MMZ...

Ilsa has perfected its nutritional strategy for cereal crops and improved its products, which today allow, at harvest, a higher yield and plus 15% average return compared to the results of conventional fertilisation practices...

ILSA’s industrial director Franco Cavazza will participate in the roundtable on the environmental product footprint in Europe, which is organized during Lineapelle...

Ilsa confirms its good financial health. This has also been certified by the Credit Data Search, which recently reconfirmed its A+ score to demonstrate our high credit rating...

Owing to the intense exploitation of the nutritional resources of tree crops caused by the climatic stress in the summer and usual intense crop removal, during the post-harvest period, the plants may not be able to...

Lettuce and, in particular, the Cannellina, Edmonton, Larabel and Osiride varieties are among the salads with the softest tissues. This is a feature strongly sought after by farmers to enable them to respond to consumer tastes, but tenderness also means...

The Ilsa company profile was updated in 2018. The common thread in this newly edited book, in line with the company values, is environmental sustainability, which is demonstrated by the facts that...

Just as if they were employees, they arrive in the morning, leave in the afternoon, have lunch with the Ilsa team, and get paid at the end of the internship. They are the four fourth-class students from the biotechnology section of ITIS Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale Galileo Galilei...

With an accurate mix of Ilsa natural biostimulants, the orange groves of the Navelina variety of Scanzano Jonico have produced an extra 18 kg on average, and the fruits recorded the size of more than one-and-a-half centimetres...

Ilsa, along with Fomet and Fabbrica Cooperativa Perfosfati (FCP) Cerea, is sponsoring a project that aims to increase the efficiency of phosphorus...

Ilsa has been among the protagonists at "Acorbat 2018 - XXII Congreso Internacional en Banano,” the most important international exhibition on the banana tree that, this year, took place in Miami from 2nd to 4th May...

From May 2 to 4 Ilsa is attending Acorbat, in Miami, the flagship event for market operators specialized in the cultivation and marketing of bananas...

Before intervening with the appropriate vinification techniques, it is essential that the must should contain some quality characteristics for being turned into good quality wine...

Ilsapolicos is one of the natural biostimulants developed by Ilsa within the Viridem^® programme – from plants to plants – studied to stimulate, improve and balance the development of the root system...

A tool that provides farmers with personalised intervention plans with its line-up of fertilizers and biostimulants is now available online on the new Ilsa website...

ILSA will attend the 16th New Ag International Conference & Exhibition, from Wednesday 21st to Friday 23rd March 2018, in Nairobi, Kenya, covering the topic of High Tech Agriculture....

Post-emergence weeding represents a particularly delicate moment for the cultivation of cereal crops. The weeding, although it is selective towards the infesting plants, has however a hostile effect on the plant...

Ilsac-on biostimulant by Ilsa, based on the enzymatic hydrolyzate of Fabaceae, has been recently reconfirmed in the German list of inputs for organic agriculture created annually by FiBL...

January and February is weeding time for cereal crops. The better they are made, with respect to the crops, the greater is the possibility of having strong and productive seedlings in spring...

The ILSA 2018 Convention, that traditionally takes place in January, has just ended in Trani and looks positive for the year that we just entered...

ILSA is launching its new site with responsive features. The new website, www.ilsagroup.com, is easy to use even on tablets and smartphones...

ILSA took part in Siagro Norte a major event for Peruvian agriculture. It attracted the biggest companies from Central and South America, and was packed with agricultural entrepreneurs in search of novelty...

ILSA will be present at the opening day on June 6th at 12.40 pm with a speech titled "Company and Research: Synergies and Field Feedback" curated by Clizia Franceschi and Matteo Graiff, representing ILSA's R&D and Agronomical Departments respectively...

Gaining productive yields every year and increasing the quality of grapes for winemaking are among the goals of both those who produce and directly vinify, and those who consign grapes to the cellar plant...

All the benefits of the ILSA natural biostimulants that make vineyards resistant to multiple stresses, and studied within the innovative Viridem^® research programme “From plants, to plants”, will be exhibited in Annone Veneto...

#greenleather2017 is the final event of the three-year greenLIFE project, partly funded by the EU within the LIFE programme, which aims to improve environmental sustainability of the tannery industry...

South America is a "fertile soil" for Ilsa, which, thanks to the Chilean ECR Ltda, a strategic partner (it is an associated company to the Ilsa Group, based in Arzignano..

ILSA, an Italian producer of nitrogen organic fertilisers and special products for plant biostimulation, has celebrated the first quintal of triacontanol concentrate extracted from Fabaceae and produced through the new extraction plant with supercritical CO₂ ...

Ilsa has been awarded again the Assofertilizzanti Quality Trademark for 2016. The outcome of inspection has been positive and Certiquality, the company responsible for verifying the compliance of companies with the specifications set by Assofertilizzanti...

The Ilsa technicians have further tested the effectiveness of the nutritional line based on the protein matrices Agrogel^® and Gelamin^®  and the positive effect of the Enzymatic Hydrolysate of Fabaceae  on stress reduction and final quality of grapes...

ILSA, along with ALSIA (Azienda Lucana di Sviluppo e Innovazione in Agricoltura = Lucanian Company for Development and Innovation in Agriculture), has been working on the productivity of old wheat varieties that are less productive than those more commonly grown but have a very high protein content...

Organised by Federchimica, the third yearly conference on sustainable chemistry is scheduled on 10 December in Milan, at the Auditorium of the group. The focus, as a fact, is on Chemical Industry sustainability and all its processes and products, throughout their lifecycle...

This year also ILSA has been mentioned in the Responsible Care report by Federchimica. On page 66, as a fact, the moment is reported when the prestigious award Responsible Care - Product Stewardship, won in December 2014 for conducting the OEF/PEF...

2BMonthly specialises in presenting the latest news in the biostimulant industry and it has recently interviewed Paolo Girelli, ILSA President. It was a good opportunity to present Ilsa unique extractions processes...

ACCREDIA, the only Italian body authorised to carry out accreditation for testing and calibration laboratories, and whose certifications are valid throughout Europe, has recently granted accreditation to ILSA’s in-house laboratory for all 5 parameters required by the company...

ILSA produces biostimulant products for crops made from renewable plant sources, using sustainable industrial processes and with a multidisciplinary approach, encapsulated in a programme that the company has named Viridem^® ...

From today, ILSA presents itself with a new brand as a sign of its evolution towards more advanced biotechnologies. The old pay-off is replaced by the new "The green evolution"...