Hexagon (group of companies)

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Hexagon AB

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legal form Aktiebolag
ISIN SE0000103699
founding 1975
Seat Stockholm , SwedenSwedenSweden 
management Ola Rollén, President & CEO
Number of employees 20,250 (2019)
sales 3.91 billion euros ( 2019)
Branch Measurement, control and remote sensing technology
Website www.hexagon.com

Hexagon AB is a metrology and software company headquartered in Stockholm , Sweden.

Hexagon AB was founded in 1975 and is a global multinational technology group for metrology and geoanalysis. With more than 19,200 employees, Hexagon AB generated annual sales of around EUR 3.8 billion and an annual profit of around EUR 738 million in over 50 countries in 2018 .

Subsidiaries

Geo-systems

  • Agatec, laser technology
  • AGL, machine controls
  • Cable Detection (UK), Geological Systems
  • GeoMax, sensors and measuring devices
  • Leica Geosystems (Switzerland), Geographic and Geological Measurement Systems
  • MIKROFYN, laser control technology for agriculture
  • PREXISO (Switzerland), laser technology for distance measurements
  • QBL (Germany); Construction laser technology
  • SBG (Sweden), automation technology
  • Viewserve (Sweden), web-based and wireless fleet control applications

Metrology

Hexagon Metrology is part of the Hexagon AB Group. It includes companies such as Brown & Sharpe , Leitz, Cognitens, DEA , Leica Geosystems (Metrology Division), NEXTSENSE GmbH (Austria), Hexagon Metrology PTS GmbH, m & h Inprocess Messtechnik, Optiv, PC-DMIS, QUINDOS, ROMER, Apodius GmbH, AICON 3D Systems GmbH and TESA.

Software technologies

Other technologies

  • EBP - European Body Panels (EBP)
  • SwePart Transmission
  • TESA SA

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c - Financial Statements 2019 accessed on April 28, 2020
  2. Hexagon Acquires Bricsys , October 23, 2018