Schneider Electric Named MOST SUSTAINABLE COMPANY of 2024 by TIME and Statista

Here at Drayton, the brand behind Wiser and part of Schneider Electric, we’re not about giving lip service to nurturing the environment, we’re about real targets, real action, and trackable results to do better for a climate in distress.

In a rigorous rating system devised by TIME and data firm Statista, Schneider Electric has been recognised as the World’s Most Sustainable Company of 2024, scoring 88.86 out of a maximum of 100 and beating the likes of NEC Corp, Siemens, PayPal, HP and Microsoft.

Ratings like this hold companies across the globe to high standards for their Scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as their energy consumption relative to company size.

What Makes Schneider Electric the Time and Statista World’s Most Sustainable Company?

Having set ambitious targets to reduce its emissions - and be carbon neutral by 2025 - through its sustainability impact program, Schneider Electric also helps customers reduce emissions and become more energy efficient through both large-scale Sustainability Business energy management projects, and smaller scale domestic smart heating controls designed to save energy and money in every home.

Schneider electric has received an A rating from the CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) for the last 12 consecutive years, and at Drayton we’re proud to belong to a worldwide network of sustainable business that’s aiding the transition to low carbon energy use across the world.

“We’ve positioned the company to be an Impact company.” 
– Peter W. Herweck, CEO, Schneider Electric

Find out more about how Schneider Electric embraces its role as an Impact company.

Sustainability at Drayton

We don’t just make the products that help you reduce your emissions. Drayton are committed to owning our impact on the footprint and reducing emissions at every stage of our supply chain. Having already focused on Scope 1 and 2 emissions, we’ve set our sights on Scope 3 as part of our sustainability roadmap that moves us closer to net zero emissions.

We’ve adopted a holistic approach to sustainable business based around the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (or SDGs), which recognises the importance of all factors that contribute to a better and more sustainable world for all, like gender equality, and good health and wellbeing, in addition to reducing carbon emissions and other types of pollution.

A few of our sustainable business achievements at our Plymouth factory site include:

• Transitioning to 100% renewable energy.
• Reducing single use plastic in our supple chain by 99%.
• Switching to greener packaging and digital documentation for our core product ranges.
• A 2023 Schneider Electric Best Production Site award for our energy reduction program.
• Increasing site biodiversity by transforming a disused space into a biodiversity garden.
• Supporting staff wellbeing with social events, dedicated indoor and outdoor wellbeing spaces and ensuring staff can access help during challenging times.
• Sponsoring local Warm Rooms during winter months to combat the effects of soaring living costs.
• Supporting green skills and STEAM careers through school outreach schemes and apprenticeships.
• Supporting installer upskilling in low carbon heating technologies with free training in Drayton Rewards+.

Building motorboats at STEMfest ahead of SailGP 2021 - This immensely popular activity involved local school children using their engineering, creativity and testing skills to build and race mini motorboats using recycled materials from our Plymouth factory, as part of Schneider Electric's sustainability partnership and sponsorship of with SailGP 2021.

Find out more about sustainability at Drayton and get regular energy saving tips in The Leaf, our quarterly sustainability blog.