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ChemScore report card 2025
Ecolab
Total Score
35/100
Ranking
4/40
About the company
Ecolab was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It provides businesses in the food service and processing, hospitality, healthcare and industrial markets with products to prevent infection and keep environments clean. Among its services are water treatment and process applications, sanitizing solutions and pest elimination. The company works in more than 40 industries across 170 countries globally.
Transparency
3 out of 25 points
Action points
- Start publishing volumes of hazardous substances that leave the company’s facilities as products or services
- Report on the company’s global hazardous substances portfolio (beyond EU/US) on a substance-by-substance basis
- Start publishing volumes of hazardous substances that leave the company’s facilities as emissions
Phase-out of persistent chemicals
9 out of 25 points
Action points
- Stop selling persistent chemicals and set up a timed phase-out plan
- The company specifically maps the presence of persistent chemicals, but should include a broader spectrum of persistent chemicals
- The company reports a low share of revenue connected to persistent chemicals, but should include a broader spectrum of persistent chemicals in its calculation
Product portfolio
13 out of 25 points
Number of registered hazardous chemicals
6
Number of chemicals on the EU’s Candidate List
0
Number of chemicals on the EU’s Authorisation List and/or POP substances
0
Number of persistent chemicals
0
Product portfolio transparency
73%
Action points
- Reduce the number of hazardous substances the company is using, producing and placing on the market
Safer solutions
10 out of 25 points
Action points
- The company has a public commitment to increase the share of sales of safer solutions, but should increase it even more
- Start disclosing the share of R&D expenditures that are targeted towards the development of safer solutions
- Increase the share of safer solutions produced and apply these measures to all products and internal processes
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Company facts
Founded
1923
Headquarters
St. Paul, USA
Revenue
15.7 billion USD
ISIN
US2788651006
Category
Detergent
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