2025 Sustainability Report
Our 2025 Sustainability Report provides an update on progress across key sustainability priorities, regulatory readiness, and long-term business resilience.
The report highlights the role of AI and emerging technologies in advancing our sustainability strategy, supporting compliance with evolving regulations, continued investment in energy efficiency and decarbonization, improvements to health and safety programs, and progress embedding sustainable practices across the business.
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Our Commitment: Make It Matter
Hillenbrand is committed to being a company where the positive impacts of our people, products, and partnerships help better the environments in which we operate. This includes meeting the needs of the present, making improvements for future generations, and using our position to drive change and positively impact the world around us.
We push each other to perform at our best, listening and acting with the care and respect that unites us. By embracing our individuality and trusting in each other’s strengths, we stand as one by standing together.
Key Initiatives:
- Engaging our associates through our Purpose
- CEO Diversity Commitment
- Business Resource Groups
- DEI transparency and reporting
We strive to safely manufacture the future for a planet that depends on the mission-critical thinking of an organization that plans, operates, and leads with integrity. We have been the muscle that keeps the world moving for decades. And we won’t stop.
Key Initiatives:
- Alternative materials
- Investments in clean technology, Innovative and tailored solutions
- Collaborative research and key partnerships
We are problem solvers with a passion for our customers. Our tailor-made solutions open new possibilities for everyone we serve. We believe this can be achieved while also reducing our environmental impact, streamlining our operational efficiency, and creating a more sustainable way of doing business.
Key Initiatives:
- Partnership strategy tied to Core Values and Purpose
- Building a pipeline for women in STEM
- Encouraging innovation around plastics
- Leveraging partnerships for talent attraction
Ratings and Recognition
In 2023, Hillenbrand received a rating of AA (on a scale of AAA-CCC) in the MSCI ESG Ratings assessment.
Our Continued Journey and Commitment
Materiality Assessment: How We Think About Sustainability
Hillenbrand conducted its first double materiality assessment (DMA) in 2023, which was disclosed in the company's Sustainability Report. This year, the assessment was performed in accordance with the new CSRD standards, building upon the previous DMA with greater detail and alignment to ESRS topics. It also considered recent business changes, such as the divestiture of Milacron, and is planned to be updated annually. The DMA evaluates sustainability topics from two perspectives: impact materiality, which examines how the company affects society and the environment, and financial materiality, which assesses how sustainability issues influence the company's financial health. The process involves stakeholder engagement, identifying relevant sustainability matters, and analyzing impacts, risks, and opportunities across the entire value chain.
1 The use of “material” or “materiality” on this page is not related to, or intended to convey, matters or facts that could be deemed “material” to a reasonable investor as referred to under U.S. securities laws or similar requirements of other jurisdictions.
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