Hexagon invests in sustainability

Hexagon's Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial division, Hexagon's Asset Lifecycle Intelligence division, Hexagon's Geosystems division and Hexagon's Manufacturing Intelligence division are committed to caring for the environment. We're contributing to a sustainable future not only philosophically, but also through active nature conservation.
 

Future for bees

Our first measure is investing in colonies of bees to ensure that they survive and thrive. We have adopted five beehives from beefuture, and we are providing financial support for beefuture's initiative to preserve biodiversity. Every year, the harvest of our approximately 200,000 insect employees (about 40,000 bees per beehive) is packaged in Hexagon-labeled honey jars. We then share these sweet gifts with our customers and employees.

For the first three years, Hexagon's beehives resided Lake Ammer, southwest of Munich. In May 2023, they were moved to the Business Campus Garching near Munich, right next to our German headquarters. Beefuture is responsible for the professional care of the bee colonies and guarantees all beekeeping services, from official registration to species-appropriate overwintering.

Bees are the cornerstone of the survival of our ecosystems. Nearly 90% of the world’s wild flowering plant species depend, at least in part, on animal pollination — along with more than 75% of the world’s food crops and 35% of global agricultural land. Not only do pollinators contribute directly to food security, but they are key to conserving biodiversity. And the economic value of pollination by bees amounts to hundreds of billions of euros worldwide. Unfortunately, the global bee population has declined by more than half since the 1950s.

Taking action to save the bees is crucial — for both environmental and business reasons.

Bee friendly, bee careful, bee positive, bee wise, bee sustainable... beefuture.