Saint-Gobain ranked among world's most sustainably managed firms
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Saint-Gobain's Worcester facility
Saint-Gobain, a French corporation with a major manufacturing site in Worcester, is among the world's most sustainably managed companies, according to a ranking weighing environmental considerations, employee, workplace and societal issues, and innovation.
The ranking, published by The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, ranks Saint-Gobain 20th worldwide. Sony, a Japanese hardware giant, came in first, followed by Philips, a Dutch medical equipment company, and Cisco Systems, a California-based hardware company. The Journal based scores on company-reported data and news sources, and created a scoring system based on both human judgment and artificial intelligence.
Saint-Gobain scored especially well, 13th worldwide, on its environmental ranking. The company says it is committed to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by 20% by 2025, and reach net-zero emissions by 2050.
Saint-Gobain's presence in Worcester, with a high-profile site along I-190 in the city's Greendale neighborhood, stems from its purchase in 1990 of the Norton Co., an abrasives manufacturer founded in 1885.
The company employs roughly 1,500 people in Central Massachusetts, according to the Worcester Business Journal's list of largest local employers. Saint-Gobain says its abrasives unit employs 2,200 people at eight manufacturing facilities in the United States and Canada.
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