Modern slavery statement
Our statement for the financial year ending 31 December 2025.
Statement for the financial year ending 31 December 2025, published on behalf of Terravek Systems N.V. and its subsidiaries including Terravek UK Ltd.
Our business and supply chain
Terravek is a software and instrumentation company employing 742 people across eight countries. Our supply chain has three parts with materially different risk profiles:
- Technology and professional services — cloud infrastructure, software licences, consultancy. Low risk.
- Electronic component manufacture for FIELDKIT hardware and Photonwerk optical instruments. This is where our real exposure sits: multi-tier component supply chains extending into regions with documented labour risk. FIELDKIT assembly is in München and optical assembly is in München, but component sourcing is global.
- Field operations — contracted field crews, principally in East Africa and for aerial capture in Europe. Medium risk, managed through direct contracting rather than labour agencies wherever possible.
What we do about it
- All suppliers accept the Supplier Code of Conduct, which prohibits forced labour, child labour and the withholding of identity documents, and requires the same of their own suppliers.
- Suppliers above €50,000 annual spend, and every supplier in the electronics tier regardless of value, complete a risk assessment at onboarding and at renewal.
- We contract field crews directly rather than through labour intermediaries wherever it is practical, because intermediation is where most of the risk enters.
- Terravek pays a living wage in every jurisdiction where a credible independent benchmark exists, and does so for contracted field staff as well as employees.
- Our whistleblowing channel is open to supplier and contractor staff, not only employees, and accepts anonymous reports.
What we have not done
We have not conducted on-site audits below tier two of the electronics supply chain. For a company of our size that is a resourcing decision rather than a judgement that the risk is absent, and we state it plainly rather than describing our programme as comprehensive. Our leverage over a tier-three component manufacturer is, realistically, small.
During 2025
- Re-assessed 41 suppliers, of which 3 were required to remediate specific findings (all closed) and 1 was not renewed.
- No reports of forced or child labour were received through any channel.
- Extended the Supplier Code of Conduct to cover aerial capture subcontractors, following a gap identified in the 2024 internal audit.
For 2026
Extend risk assessment to tier-two electronics suppliers and join a sector initiative for shared audit coverage, on the basis that collective leverage is the only realistic route for a company of our size.
Approved by the Executive Board on 5 March 2026 and signed by Saskia Bakhuis, Chief Executive Officer. Owner: Owen Radcliffe, General Counsel (legal@terravek.com).
Last revised 5 March 2026. Questions: legal@terravek.com