Honey production
Bees from Endress+Hauser Flow draw attention to sustainability
The roof of Endress+Hauser Flow in Reinach is not only used to generate solar power, but is also home to several of the company's own honey bee colonies. By pollinating various plant species, the bees can make an important contribution to the functioning of the ecosystem and support biodiversity. We can use the honey that is produced in the process as a sustainable and meaningful gift and thus create a communicative link for sustainability topics among our employees, customers and visitors.
Sensible use of building roof areas
Building roofs are often used to produce electricity with solar energy. Alternatively or in addition, green roofs are also ideal as ecological compensation areas. Endress+Hauser Flow has opted for multiple use of the roofs and created an additional habitat for various plant and animal species. Among them: the company's own honey bees.
The importance of pollinators for our ecosystem
Bees and other insect species are vital to our ecosystem and to us humans. As pollinators, they ensure the fertilization and survival of many plants - including numerous crops - and thus also our food supply. They also help to preserve the habitats of many other animal species.
Raising awareness for sustainability
As central as pollinators are to our ecosystem, they themselves depend on an intact environment. Raising awareness about threatened ecosystems is therefore important and opens up opportunities for us to take action individually, as a company and as a society. With the bees and honey production, Endress+Hauser Flow wants to raise awareness about such issues as well as make employees and honey recipients aware of our sustainability efforts.
In-house honey production
The little bees are looked after by an employee trained as a beekeeper, who also takes care of the harvesting and bottling of the honey. As a natural product, the bees' yield depends on various factors and is subject to natural fluctuations. As a result, the quantity of Endress+Hauser honey jars also varies. If 500 jars are filled in one year, it may be only 150 in the following year.