About
A. O. Smith Corporation is one of the world's leading manufacturers of residential and commercial water heaters and boilers, offering a comprehensive product line featuring the best-known brands in North America, China, India, Vietnam and Europe.
The company was founded in 1874 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where today the Company is headquartered. A. O. Smith employs over 12,000 individuals at operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, China, India, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. We also have sales and distribution in more than 60 countries around the world.
As a global leader, A. O. Smith and its employees pride themselves on applying innovative technology and energy-efficient solutions to products marketed worldwide. The Company's goal is to be a leading global water technology company, and our focus is on building this platform through new product development, global expansion, strategic acquisitions and partnerships.
Environmental mission and strategy (ESG)
The A. O. Smith 2022 Environmental, Social and Governance Report documents the company’s ESG activities and performance over the past two years. This is the third ESG report released by the company in the last five years.
A. O. Smith has made significant strides in its commitment to ESG, including:
- Progress toward our GHG emission reduction goal: 10% emissions intensity reduction by 2025
- Preventing almost 500,000 metric tons of carbon emissions in 2021 through sales of our highly efficient water heaters and boilers
- Achieving WAVE verification, a process developed by The Water Council and independently verified by SCS Global Services, as an initial step in creating a strategy to improve our water stewardship performance
- Hiring ESG Director, Noelle Brigham, who joins A. O. Smith with 20+ years of sustainability experience in corporate environments
- Donating over $1.6 million to 193 nonprofit community organizations in 2021 through the A. O. Smith Foundation and $1.5 million to provide access to clean drinking water to communities in need in partnership with Good360
- Continuing to achieve our goal for employee development – 100% of full-time salaried employees have had a documented development plan for the past three years
- Receiving our fourth consecutive Energy Star Partner of the Year Award and second consecutive award for Sustained Excellence
- Assisting policymakers in analyzing data using our proprietary tool that models energy usage, environmental impact and potential decarbonization proposals
Our ESG Scorecard (below) contains our most recent key performance indicators (KPIs), a comparison against our 2019 baseline and our progress towards our 2025 goals. Despite the challenges caused by the pandemic in 2020, we made progress in our green revenue as a percentage of sales, as well as single-use plastic bottle displacement driven by our water treatment sales.
