15 years HARTMANN SCIENCE CENTER For 15 years, the HARTMANN SCIENCE CENTER has been a symbol of scientific expertise in hygiene, disinfection and infection prevention. Find out more here about the focus areas and offerings. Learn more
HARTMANN SCIENCE CENTER Symposium 2026 This year’s HARTMANN SCIENCE CENTER Symposium took place on May 21. The diverse programme covered everything from effective outbreak management and optimized hand hygiene to innovative hygiene solutions. Find here the recordings of the presentations. Learn more
ICPIC 2025 HARTMANN has participated in the ICPIC Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, from 16-19 September 2025. The symposium recordings & posters are now available! Learn more
HARTMANN SCIENCE CENTER Symposium 2025 On May 20, 2025, HARTMANN continued with the next HARTMANN SCIENCE CENTER Symposium. This year's title was "Because it matters - Innovations in Infection Prevention". Presentations of the speakers are now available as recordings on our website. Learn more
100 years of hygiene expertise for HARTMANN On 16 January 2024 - exactly one hundred years to the day after today's BODE Chemie GmbH, a company of the HARTMANN GROUP, was founded - we welcomed guests from politics, business and medicine at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE). Learn more
HSC Symposium 2024 On June 10 -11 2024, HARTMANN continued its lecture series “Safety first – Rethinking infection prevention”. Find here the speaker presentations from this year's event ‘Milestones in Infection Prevention and Control’ as recordings, as well as the posters from our poster session. Learn more
5 moments of surface disinfection Successful visual representations facilitate the transfer of knowledge - also in the healthcare sector. In order to promote the acceptance of surface hygiene as an important pillar of infection prevention, a recent article now proposes the visualization of the 5 moments of surface hygiene. Learn more here. Learn more
HARTMANN SCIENCE CENTER Symposium 2026 This year’s HARTMANN SCIENCE CENTER Symposium took place on May 21. The diverse programme covered everything from effective outbreak management and optimized hand hygiene to innovative hygiene solutions. Find here the recordings of the presentations. Learn more
Hantavirus Hantaviruses are enveloped viruses that cause haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome. Learn about their transmission, symptoms, and disinfection methods. Learn more