World’s leading industrial thread company, Coats has published its 2021 Sustainability Report.

Titled ‘Pioneering a Sustainable Future: Accelerating our Journey,’ the report details the progress made against Coats’ Sustainability Strategy launched in 2019. The Strategy set out ambitious targets to be achieved by the end of 2022. The progress achieved in 2021 included 22 per cent reduction in water usage; 6.9 per cent reduction in kWh per kilogram of production against a target of 7 per cent by the end of 2022; 82 per cent of effluent was compliant with ZDHC against a target of 100 per cent by the end of 2022; 83 per cent of employees worked in an accredited ‘Great Place To Work’ exceeding the target of 80 per cent; 3 per cent reduction in waste

The 2021 Sustainability Report outlines the company’s social impact ambitions including maintaining a workplace where every single employee is free from discrimination, feels respected and is treated fairly and equally and striving to achieve gender parity in all managerial roles, and higher than local labor market representation for all other underrepresented communities at Coats locations.