What Company is This?
Electrolux was founded in 1919 on the idea of making vacuum cleaners lighter and easier to use. More than a hundred years later, the company is present in around 120 markets, organised into three product lines: appliances for taste, care, and wellbeing. In 2025, Electrolux’s sales were SEK 131 billion, and it employed 39,000 people around the world.
What Are the Results?
Electrolux ties with Metso and Sandvik at a total score of 20%, comprising 18% for General Supply Chain Sustainability – the lowest on the Scoreboard – and 22% for Steel Supply Chain Sustainability. Furthermore, the scores for the former category’s subcategories of Target-Setting and Progress, and Supply Chain Levers are 21% and 0%, respectively, and for the latter category, Electrolux scores zero for Disclosure, 21% for Target-Setting and Progress, and 33% for Supply Chain Levers.
What Are the Highlights?
Electrolux scores partial points in the General Supply Chain Sustainability category for its SBTi targets that include both a 2050 target and an interim target of reducing Scope 3 emissions by 42% by 2030, but the company aggregates the latter for purchased goods and services, upstream transportation and distribution, business travel, and use of sold products, while the Scoreboard requires setting a disaggregated target for purchased goods. Partial points are also awarded for requiring suppliers to report their water consumption and discharge, an indicator that only Electrolux scores points for on the Scoreboard, and for requiring suppliers to set targets on, at a minimum, the reduction of energy consumption and converting to renewable energy, which are interpreted as climate-related targets.
In the Steel Supply Chain Sustainability category, Electrolux scores 50% for having a combined target of 35% recycled steel and plastic by 2030, disclosing progress towards this goal (23% in 2025), and disclosing that it has signed an agreement with a European steel supplier to deliver fossil-free, hydrogen-based steel. Interestingly, Electrolux does not disclose the name of this steelmaker, but we nevertheless award 75% for this indicator, as it is a formal arrangement that considers steel produced using breakthrough technology for fossil-free steelmaking. Finally, the company earns 25% for improving the recyclability of steel by disclosing that 90% of the steel used in Electrolux’s products is recyclable.
Where Can the Company Improve?
Electrolux could improve its performance across 13 indicators, on which the company currently scores zero points. In the General Supply Chain category, the company scores zero for not requiring science-based targets from suppliers or reporting the share of suppliers having them, for not committing to halt deforestation in its supply chain, for not disclosing that sustainability is a choice criterion when choosing new suppliers, for not implementing incentives and control systems to improve water management in its supply chains, or eliminate deforestation from its supply chains. In the Steel Supply Chain category, Electrolux could improve by disclosing its greenhouse gas emissions disaggregated for steel, setting targets for the use of lower-emission and fossil-free steel and reporting progress towards these targets, becoming a member of SteelZero, First Movers Coalition, or ResponsibleSteel, and engaging with suppliers regarding certification with the last-mentioned.
