Allegion has been honored with two 2024 SEAL Business Sustainability Awards for environmental initiatives in one of our U.S. distribution centers as well as one of our fire-rated glass manufacturing facilities.
"Integration and Impact are the watchwords of the 2024 SEAL Sustainability Awards. This year, we've seen an impressive synthesis of technology, design and innovation combined to drive sustainable impact," said Matt Harney, founder and chair of SEAL Awards. "Alongside the critical need for organizations to dedicate real investment and human capital into environment, social and governance (ESG), the holistic approach of these award winners is imperative to keep driving progress."
SEAL, which stands for sustainability, environmental achievement and leadership, is an environmental advocacy organization that honors leadership through its business sustainability awards and environmental journalism awards.
Allegion was first honored by SEAL for leadership, innovation and commitment to sustainability with a 2022 award for a sustainable water project at two manufacturing facilities in Mexico. This year, we were recognized for two projects that reduce our environmental impact: a logistics reconfiguration that reduces cargo shipments to one of our distribution centers in Kansas and a major glass recycling initiative at our facility in Washington.
The distribution center in Olathe, Kansas, reduced the number of shipping containers used annually by up to 55%, cutting both emissions associated with transportation operations and shipping costs.
The efficiency improvements allow us to drop more than 100 containers a year, which translates to about 486 metric tons of scope 3 carbon dioxide equivalents annually — aligning with our long-term ESG commitments, which include reducing greenhouse gas emissions rates.
In 2022, Allegion’s Logistics team identified that shipping containers coming from a particular supplier were only 60 to 70% full, prompting a cross-functional productivity initiative to change master carton sizes and configurations to fully optimize pallets and shipping container cubes.
