We are transparent in communicating our goals and actions in sustainability. We report on sustainability on a quarterly and yearly basis in interim reports as well as Annual report more extensively. Most important KPI information and report links can be found on this page.
Metso Plus approach
Central to our sustainability efforts is our Metso Plus offering – products and services that are more energy- or water-efficient than an industry benchmark or a previous-generation product in the market.
We target to grow Metso Plus sales faster than overall sales. Our Metso Plus portfolio already includes over 100 products, and we aim to keep expanding and improving this offering to have a Metso Plus product for every part of our customers’ value chain. To achieve this, all our R&D projects must have sustainability benefits; we aim to have 80% of our R&D spend on Metso Plus product and services offering development by 2030.
In 2025, Metso Plus sales were EUR 1,458 million. 98.8% of R&D project spend was with projects that have sustainability targets and 60.1% of our R&D spend was towards developing new Metso Plus products.
Avoiding CO2 emissions in our own operations and logistics
In 2025, Metso renewed its science-based targets (SBTs) and going forward continues to commit to reduce absolute Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 100% by 2030 from the 2019 base year. Metso also commits to reduce Scope 3 GHG emissions from use of sold products by 51.6% per EUR value added by 2030 from the 2024 base year.
Metso further commits that 40% of its customers by revenue, covering downstream transportation and distribution and use of sold products, will have science-based targets by 2030 and that 40% of its suppliers by spend, covering purchased goods and services and upstream transportation and distribution, will have science-based targets by 2030.
In 2025, Metso invested over EUR 1.4 million in capital projects to reduce its CO2 emissions. Metso expects to spend around EUR 40-100 million during 2025–2030.
Metso’s most significant planned investments in decarbonizing its own operations focus on electrifying foundries and metal casting processes within its facilities in China and India. Specific climate mitigation actions completed in 2025 include:
- Energy-efficient upgrades to industrial furnaces and heating systems in Brazil, China and India
- Installations of solar panels at manufacturing locations in Australia, China and Mexico
- Change from diesel to electric tow-trucks and company vans in India and Ireland and installing electric vehicle charging stations in Finland
- Installation of automated shutdown control for air conditioning to reduce energy and cooling gas waste in Brazil
Health and safety performance
We have an uncompromising approach to health and safety for all our employees, partners, customers and other stakeholders, and a comprehensive agenda to continuously improve our safety performance. In 2025, our TRIFR was 2.5.
Metso improved its safety performance in 2025 compared to the previous year. Although the ambitious targets set for the year were not reached, performance was closely monitored and supported by continuous improvement initiatives. Improving safety performance remained as a cornerstone of Metso's long-term safety ambition.
A new Safety execution plan for 2026-2028 was created together with key stakeholders. The plan includes a new, proactive safety key message, "Start with safety," which was also embedded as one of the key elements in Metso’s culture. The safety focus areas for the next three years include projects and improvement initiatives aimed at fatal accident prevention, learning from experience, enabled operational safety leaders, contractor safety, asset integrity reviews, and continuous compliance.
The most important safety actions taken in 2025:
- Safety execution plan 2026–2028
- New safety key message "Start with safety" was introduced
- Safety theme for 2025: Humanizing safety
- Safety directive gap analysis
- Risk observation and safety conversation trainings and targets
In 2025, a total of 41 internal QEHS audits were carried out. Findings were documented, analyzed and corrective actions defined.
Our supplier engagement
We encourage our suppliers to commit to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). One of our sustainability targets is that 40% of procurement spend is with suppliers who have committed to SBTi by 2030. Our supplier engagement program started in 2020 and 34% of our direct suppliers were committed to SBTi by the end of 2025.
Our annual auditing program identifies suppliers to be audited based on a supplier sustainability risk assessment. In 2025, we conducted 185 supplier sustainability audits.