OMRON Corporation has announced its selection as one of Newsweek’s World’s Greenest Companies 2025, an honor jointly awarded by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group. This recognition reflects the company’s leadership in sustainability, transparency, and environmentally responsible business practices.
With operations spanning more than 130 countries and regions, OMRON continues to advance initiatives that reduce environmental impact across the entire value chain—from energy generation and usage to production, logistics, product innovation, and end-of-life waste reduction. The company earned the highest possible 5-star rating for meeting leading sustainability standards based on benchmarks established by the European Union.
This year’s World’s Greenest Companies ranking involved one of the most extensive sustainability assessments ever conducted. GIST Impact and Plant-A Insights evaluated more than 8,000 publicly listed companies around the world using over 25 metrics, grouped into four central categories: Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions, Water Usage, Waste Generation, and Sustainability Data Disclosures & Commitments. After rigorous analysis, the top 750 companies from 26 countries were selected for demonstrating exceptional progress and transparency in environmental stewardship. OMRON’s inclusion signals the company’s comprehensive and long-term approach to sustainability—not only at the corporate level but throughout its technologies and products that power modern industries.
Leading Environmental Action Across the Value Chain
OMRON has woven sustainability into every aspect of its operations. Its initiatives extend from renewable energy generation to efficient energy consumption, from production methods to packaging design, from logistics processes to supply chain collaboration, and from product recycling to waste reduction. This broad approach aims not only to minimize the company’s direct environmental footprint but also to help its customers and partners reduce theirs.
The company’s global footprint amplifies its responsibility and opportunity: as a supplier of advanced automation, sensing technologies, healthcare devices, and electronic components, OMRON is positioned to influence sustainable outcomes across countless industries. Its sustainability strategy focuses on reducing environmental burden through innovation, driving energy efficiency at scale, and embedding circular economy principles across operations.
The Green Project: Driving Decarbonization Through Device & Module Solutions
A key contributor to OMRON’s top-tier ranking is the Green Project led by the Device & Module Solutions (DMS) business. Serving mission-critical sectors—including automotive manufacturing, power distribution, and home appliances—the DMS division produces relays, switches, sensors, connectors, and other components essential to modern machinery and electronics.
Under the Green Project framework, OMRON emphasizes three pillars:
Products, Process, and Purchase.
- Products: OMRON develops components that enable customers to reduce energy consumption in their own products. As efficiency improves at the component level, the cumulative environmental benefit spans entire industries.
- Process: The company optimizes manufacturing workflows to reduce waste, energy usage, and emissions. Continuous improvement practices ensure that operations become progressively cleaner and more efficient.
- Purchase: OMRON promotes sustainable procurement by working closely with suppliers to adopt responsible sourcing, transparency, and low-carbon materials. This reinforces sustainability across the extended supply chain.
Through this approach, the Green Project not only reduces OMRON’s footprint but also helps customers advance toward carbon neutrality by lowering Scope 3 emissions related to components and materials.
Cross-Business Collaboration: Industrial Automation Meets Healthcare
Another major initiative recognized by Newsweek is the collaboration between OMRON’s Industrial Automation and Healthcare businesses. The Matsusaka factory in Japan—known for producing healthcare products such as digital thermometers and blood pressure monitors—has implemented a comprehensive strategy based on three key principles: reduce, create, and absorb.
- Reduce: Energy consumption is minimized through efficiency improvements on the factory floor, powered by data-driven automation and smart monitoring.
- Create: The facility generates clean energy on-site, such as solar power, helping offset its operational demand.
- Absorb: Remaining carbon emissions are addressed through methods that support carbon neutrality, including energy storage solutions and environmental absorption efforts.
Central to these improvements is OMRON’s i-BELT data management platform, developed by the Industrial Automation business. The platform enables real-time oversight of every stage of production—from soldering and assembly to inspection and logistics. By leveraging advanced data analytics, the factory is able to pinpoint inefficiencies, reduce electricity use, and increase overall energy productivity. This digital transformation model is one that OMRON aims to expand across more facilities globally.
A Commitment Recognized and Validated
Reflecting on the recognition, Judy Connors, President & COO of OMRON Electronic Components, LLC, emphasized that sustainability is not simply an obligation—it is a strategic advantage.
This recognition is a validation of our efforts to drive a sustainability-led value creation for our customers, partners and society at large,” Connors said. “We are choosing sustainability not just to be compliant but because it makes business sense and opens new doors to implement our creativity, generate business and stakeholder value, and preserve the environment.
Her comments capture OMRON’s belief that environmental responsibility and business growth go hand in hand. As regulations strengthen worldwide and customer expectations evolve, companies that prioritize sustainability will be best positioned to thrive.
Shaping the Future 2030: OMRON’s Long-Term Vision
OMRON’s sustainability achievements are guided by its long-term strategic vision, Shaping the Future 2030. The vision outlines the company’s commitment to tackling key global challenges—foremost among them climate change and the creation of a circular economy. Key goals include:
- Significant reductions in GHG emissions across all business units
- Transitioning to renewable energy sources
- Improving resource efficiency
- Reducing waste through recycling and materials innovation
- Designing products that support energy-efficient use for customers
By aligning its business strategy with long-term environmental imperatives, OMRON is positioning itself as a global leader in sustainable innovation. Its recognition as one of the World’s Greenest Companies reflects meaningful progress while motivating further action.
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