Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)

The A. O. Smith 2024 Sustainability Report documents the company's environmental, social and governance activities, progress and performance over the past two years. The report also announces the company’s first public water goal: an annual water savings of 40 million gallons by 2030.

A. O. Smith has made additional significant strides in its commitment to sustainability, including:

• Announcing its first public enterprise-wide water goal with a focus on administrative controls, process optimization and water recycling technologies to advance our commitment to water stewardship 
  
  

• Continuously innovating our water heating and water treatment technologies to be an industry leader in energy and water efficiency to consistently exceed regulatory standards  

• Helping policymakers make positive change by ensuring public officials have empirical information as part of their decision-making processes 

• Fostering a culture of innovation through employee development and recognition  

• Surpassing our greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal by 17% 

• Donating more than $1.75 million to 199 nonprofit community organizations in 2023 through the A. O. Smith Foundation, as well as one-time gifts of $150,000 each to two nonprofits in honor of our 150th anniversary 

  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.