History
1993
Eken change its registered name to Hexagon AB.1998
Mr Melker Schörling acquires the controlling stake in Hexagon.1999
Mr Melker Schörling is elected the Chairman of the Board of Hexagon.2000
New management team is hired and new strategies set. The business area Norfoods is divested.2001
Gustaf Fagerberg AB, Tecla, Johnson Metal Bearing Components and the business area Hexagon Wireless are divested. The US listed measurement technologies company Brown & Sharpe Inc, the software company Wilcox, Cubic Tavleproduktion and HTR Hydrauliikka Oy are acquired.2002
The measurement technologies company C E Johansson, rubber compound company GFD Technology Gmbh, measurement technologies company Quality Ltda and software company Mirai Srl are acquired.2003
Boliden and Hexagon form a joint venture comprising their respective brass operations, Nordic Brass AB and Boliden Gusum AB. Hexagon increase its ownership to 90 per cent in Qingdao Brown & Sharpe Quinshao Technology Co Ltd and Qingdao Brown & Sharpe Trading Co Ltd.2004
Metodsvets i Kungälv AB and Tjust Mekaniska Verkstads AB are divested. The shares in the listed company VBG AB are spun off to Hexagon's shareholders. The measurement technologies operations of Korea ErFa Systems Eng. Co, measurement technologies operations of Sheffield Automation LLC, polymer group Thona Group and measurement technologies companies Romer S.A and Romer Inc. are acquired.2005
The Hexagon Automation business area and tooling company SwePart Verktyg AB are divested. The wheel division of Trostel SEG, Inc. and measurement technologies company Leica Geosystems are acquired.2006
As industrial property in Västerås, Sweden, a line of business in Tidamek AB and the shareholding in Tradimus AB are divested. Scanlaser AB, Scanlaser AS, assets of Thaimach Sales & Service Co., Ltd. in Thailand and Mikrofyn A/S are acquired.2007
Johnson Metall AB, Eurosteel AB and Tidamek AB are divested. Within Hexagon Measurement Technologies, the software company Svensk ByggnadsGeodesi AB (SBG), French D&P Systems, Topolaser System and Gamfi, American Allen Precision Equipment, Acquis and Jigsaw Technologies, Australian Earth Resource Mapping (ER Mapper), Turkish Transmetal, software company IONIC, Chinese company JMTC, German Gesswein, CogniTens Ltd in Israel, Canadian NovAtel Inc, Indian Elcome Technologies, R&A Rost Vertriebs and R&A Rost Produktions in Austria, Geopro in Hungary and Junglas in Germany are acquired. Within Hexagon Polymers, the American rubber compounding company Gold Key Processing Ltd is acquired.2008
Hexagon Polymers is distributed to the shareholders of Hexagon and is listed as a separate company Hexpol AB on the OMX Nordic Exchange Stockholm. The American companies Surveyors Service Company, Haselbach Surveying Instruments, the Spanish Santiago & Cintra Ibérica S.A, the American Advanced Metrology Solutions, the Swedish software company Viewserve, the German software company MTWZ, the German machine tool probe manufacturer m&h Group, the Chinese measuring instruments supplier Serein Metrology and the Australian machine guidance supplier Rinex Technology are acquired.