Dematic report shows progress on sustainability goals
Wed, 29th Jul 2026 (Yesterday)
Dematic has released its 2025 Sustainability Report, outlining progress across its operations, products and workforce.
The report focuses on three areas Dematic describes as People, Planet and Portfolio. It covers safety and workforce measures, emissions and energy use, and product design changes tied to circularity and system life.
Mike Larsson, President of Dematic and Member of the KION Executive Board, linked sustainability to warehouse and materials handling performance across the company's customer base.
"For our customers, sustainability is inseparable from efficiency, resilience, and long-term performance. When systems move materials accurately, use space intelligently, and reduce wasted motion and energy, sustainability follows," said Mike Larsson, President of Dematic and Member of the KION Executive Board.
In the People section, Dematic reported full ISO 45001 certification across its facilities in 2025. It also reported what it described as a best-in-class Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate.
About 89% of employees took part in Dematic's global talent review process, a figure the company included in its account of staff development and workforce engagement.
Emissions progress
On environmental measures, Dematic reported a 55.48% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 market-based greenhouse gas emissions against its 2021 baseline. It said the work aligns with targets set through parent group KION under the Science Based Targets initiative.
Dematic also reported a 13.6% reduction in total energy consumption since 2021. Over the same period, total waste fell by 19%.
These figures place Dematic among a growing number of industrial and logistics technology businesses publishing quantified updates on emissions, energy and waste as customers and investors push for greater disclosure from supply chain operators and their suppliers.
Product changes
The Portfolio section focuses on product design, recyclability and lifecycle support. Dematic said its Multishuttle 2 became the first shuttle-based automated storage and retrieval system to receive Cradle to Cradle Certified status.
The certification is intended to recognise design choices linked to material health, reuse and recyclability. Dematic presented the milestone as part of a broader move toward circular design principles in warehouse automation equipment.
Dematic also highlighted the commercialisation of its Dematic Command Centre software, saying the system gives operators real-time visibility into operations and workflow performance.
It said it is working to embed sustainability considerations earlier in the design process so customer projects are assessed against both operational and environmental measures. The report argues that decisions on space use, motion, energy consumption and system life can affect both operating costs and emissions over time.
As part of KION, Dematic operates in a sector under pressure to help warehouse, distribution and manufacturing customers improve throughput while cutting waste and energy use. Automation suppliers have increasingly sought to show that equipment upgrades and software tools can support those goals without treating sustainability as a separate programme.
Dematic employs more than 10,000 people worldwide and has consulting, engineering, manufacturing and service centres in more than 26 countries. The business is headquartered in Atlanta and serves distributors, warehouses and manufacturers.
The latest report presents sustainability as an operational issue as much as a reporting exercise, tying workforce safety, emissions reduction and product design to the economics of running supply chains. It is intended to provide a transparent view of the company's progress and direction.