Whether used for fertilizers, gelatin, or pharmaceutical products, or later as the basis for groundbreaking regenerative biomaterials such as Geistlich Bio-Oss® or Orthoss:
Bone is the foundation upon which Geistlich has grown and continues to pioneer innovation.
Over the years, a wide range of products and application areas has developed: agricultural products, food, adhesives, construction chemicals, and pharmaceuticals a mix that appears diverse at first glance but is clearly interconnected upon closer inspection. Many of these products originated from the processing of bone and animal tissue.
Bone as the source of innovation
With a decisive strategic move in the 1990s to focus more heavily on biomaterials, this “common denominator” became a shared path to the future. What began back then with a meeting in the snow-covered Swiss mountains became a global success story. Today, the name Geistlich stands worldwide for trust, evidence, partnership, and regeneration.
175 years later, we can say: We have changed, transformed, and evolved. But our origins remain our compass: We build on bone, and with bone we build the future.
