Living Sustainability at the Eurofins Laboratory Site in Hamburg

Dec 2019. With great commitment and love for nature, Eurofins employees and their families have transformed part of the Hamburg company site into an ecologically valuable bee pasture.

Happy after finishing work: The members of the employee planting campaign at the Eurofins Campus in Hamburg

In a voluntary planting session on a Saturday, they put more than 1,200 young plants into the ground, including a wild apple tree, field roses, winter heath, cranesbill, brownshell and bugle. Due to the different flowering times of the plants, insects will find food around the year. The children diligently drilled holes in some deadwood trunks. They will be placed btween the plants in spring and can then be colonised by wild bees and other beneficial insects. The initiative was rounded off by the construction of several new birdhouses and a garbage collection session.

Focussing Bees

In line with the motto of the initiative "All around the bee", two Eurofins employees organised special hands-on activities: Katja Bohm, honey expert from Eurofins Food Integrity Control Services, provided information on various types of honey. The colleagues were allowed to taste them in a sensory tasting. Meanwhile, Robert Janzen, Head of Software Development at Eurofins Information Systems gave an insight into his private beekeeping activities and offered a guided tour of his beehives, which are located on the green roof of the company during the summer months.

Project Funding„UnternehmensNatur“

We would like to particularly thank Kirsten Gulau, biologist and independent consultant, who significantly supported this initiative. Within the scope of the project "UnternehmenNatur" she tailored a sustainabilty concept specifically to the Eurofins company premises. The project "UnternehmenNatur" is a joint initiative of the NABU Hamburg, the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and the Department of Environment and Energy (BUE). Its goal is to create new habitats and contribute to the conservation of biodiversity. 

Eurofins will continue the planting campaign in the coming year.