For us, corporate responsibility means: looking, listening and taking action. Whether it's assisting needy families, supporting handicapped people, disaster relief, more "awareness of water" in schools or returning fish to the local riverscape.
Thermal imaging camera for volunteers: Hansgrohe donates a special piece of equipment to the local fire department in Schiltach in the Black Forest, company headquarters of the bathroom and sanitary specialists.
The "Off Road Kids" Foundation looks after street kids and young people from disadvantaged families throughout Germany. Hansgrohe AG equipped a new children's home in Bad Dürrheim with Pontos AquaCycle technology for recycling water.
And with Hansgrohe's help, the Kiel three-masted vessel "Thor Heyerdahl" was refloated. On the sail training ship young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, among others, learn how to undertake responsibility.
Hansgrohe engages in salmon stock campaigns to encourage a better quality of life and a better ecosystem in its home region. The goal is the breeding and reintegration of salmon in the Kinzig Valley. And in fact: the migratory fish are coming back!
Hansgrohe AG helped refloat the research and media vessel Aldebaran, whose crew has been eagerly scouring the seven seas since 1992, in the name of environmental protection.
The Albert Schweizer workshops foster the skills of disabled people holistically. Hansgrohe supports the facility at its Offenburg production site in several ways. For example, with assembly orders and items donated towards a new building.
The Ronald McDonald Foundation helps families with seriously ill children. Hansgrohe supports the Foundation in establishing a new building, where parents and children can come to recharge their batteries, located near the Tübingen Children's Hospital.
The Hansgrohe calendar 2012 displays the fascinating diversity of Namibia, and offers a way to support a water management project that is based in this Southern African country.
Hansgrohe finds that Green Building is not only a megatrend, but a worldwide necessity. Because sustainable building means: resource conservation and climate protection. And the Black Forest bathroom professionals have long been committed to this.
With tremendous readiness to help others, Hansgrohe employees donated their extra hours to those people in need due to the devastating earthquake of January 2010. The aid contribution amounted to a total 250,000 euros.
Water = Future is the simple equation that Hansgrohe is hoping will arouse pupils' interest in the precious asset of water. Free teaching materials are therefore available for those motivated by conviction in matters of environmental protection.
The company presents the Hansgrohe Award for Journalists for contributions from print, radio, TV and online media, that aim to raise public awareness about the conscious, sustainable use of water.
