Hexagon is a Stockholm-headquartered industrial-technology group specialising in measurement, sensors and software, with around 24,800 employees and roughly €5.4 billion in annual sales. In Portugal it is present through its Leica Geosystems subsidiary near Lisbon and a metrology precision centre in the Aveiro region.
Hexagon AB is a Swedish industrial-technology company headquartered in Stockholm, built around precision measurement, sensors and software — metrology, geospatial and positioning, and manufacturing intelligence — and is the parent of Leica Geosystems. Listed on Nasdaq Stockholm (HEXA B), it employs roughly 24,800 people across some 50 countries and reported on the order of €5.4 billion in annual sales, with Anders Svensson appointed President and CEO in 2025.
In Portugal, Hexagon’s clearest footprint is its Leica Geosystems arm, a registered Portuguese entity based in Moscavide (Loures, Lisbon district) that has supplied and supported surveying and geospatial equipment in the country since 1997. The group also runs a Hexagon Precision Center in Albergaria-a-Velha, in the Aveiro district — a metrology facility with coordinate-measuring machines and scanning equipment, inaugurated in 2018 and operated together with local partner Metricent.
Hexagon is the kind of high-end industrial-technology employer Portugal wants more of: measurement and software capability that supports the country’s manufacturing, construction and geospatial sectors. Its Lisbon and Aveiro presences put a Swedish technology leader directly into Portugal’s industrial base, on both the commercial and the metrology-services side.
In 2025-2026 Hexagon has been reshaping its portfolio: it agreed to sell its design-and-engineering business (including MSC Software) to Cadence for around €2.7 billion, and is spinning off its enterprise and industrial software into a separately listed company, Octave, in a process running into 2026.
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