Sustainability

For more than 100 years, our principles and values have been at the heart of what we do. They guide, inspire and lead our teams to innovate, continuously improve, and deliver value for our customers through our products and solutions.

With this same focus, we created our Donaldson sustainability strategy, Filtration for a Thriving Future. Making progress on our priority ESG topics means understanding how we deliver value as a company and finding ways to use those competencies to drive positive outcomes. At the same time, this work makes Donaldson a stronger and more resilient company. Driving change in these areas through our products and practices will help improve how we do business, add value for our stakeholders, and make a more significant impact as we work toward creating a thriving future for people and the planet.

At Donaldson, we take an integrated approach to sustainability. Sustainability is not a standalone initiative or goal. It is built into what we do and why we exist as a company. Our sustainability strategy, Filtration for a Thriving Future, is grounded by our company purpose – Advancing Filtration for a Cleaner World. This purpose is the foundation for why we exist and create our technologies, products, and solutions.

Donaldson’s Filtration for a Thriving Future sustainability strategy includes the following fiscal year 2030 Ambitions:

1. Greenhouse Gas Emissions — Donaldson is committed to helping mitigate climate change. We are targeting an absolute reduction of our Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 42% by the end of fiscal year 2030 from a fiscal year 2021 baseline. This ambition, along with the execution roadmap, is science-based and aligns with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 1.5°C global warming scenario.
2. Employee Health and Safety — Donaldson is committed to providing safe and healthy workplaces. We aim to have year-over-year reductions in life-changing events and consistently have zero life-changing events by the end of fiscal year 2030. We define life-changing events as work-related fatalities, hospitalizations, amputations, or vision loss due to serious injury or illness.
3. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion — Donaldson believes in having a globally diverse and inclusive culture and we know embracing the uniqueness of each individual drives innovation and helps meet customer needs. We are committed to advancing opportunity and equity in the workplace and aspire to recruit, retain, develop, and promote a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities in which we work. Donaldson aims to increase the number of women in global leadership positions to 35% by the end of fiscal 2030 starting from a January 2023 baseline. We also strive to make progress toward gender parity and to improve racial and ethnic representation in leadership positions.
4. Community Engagement and Giving — Donaldson is committed to positively impacting our communities through education. We aim to increase charitable giving through the Donaldson Foundation by 25% every four years, giving cumulatively at least $13.5 million from fiscal year 2022 to fiscal year 2030, to organizations within Donaldson’s communities with a focus on meeting educational needs.

External certification standards help us ensure we properly manage environmental and occupational health and safety risks at our facilities. These internationally accepted certifications provide sound, uniform standards for the following management systems.

Energy Management Certifications – ISO 50001

Environmental Management Certifications – ISO 14001

Health & Safety Certifications – ISO 45001

Quality is what our customers expect from Donaldson — and it is what we have delivered for over 100 years.

Quality Certifications – ISO 9001, IATF 16949 & AS 9100

Halal Certification

We offer a wide range of specialty products that are halal-certified for food and beverage manufacturing facilities. These products are designed for the development, production, and distribution of process filtration, used for the purification of compressed air, steam, gases, and liquids. View the Halal Certificate for certified products.