Beckers published its 2025 Performance Report, the company’s most comprehensive sustainability publication to date and the first report created as part of Beckers’ transition to the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).

The report sets out the year’s results across all four pillars of the Green Lights Strategy: People with Impact, Products with Impact, Operations with Impact, and Business with Impact.

Key Milestones 

In March, Beckers became one of the first companies in the coil coatings industry to have both near-term and net-zero climate targets validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). This provides an externally verified roadmap for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Scopes 1, 2, and 3. 

Renewable energy use across Beckers operations reached 76% in 2025, ahead of the trajectory toward the company’s 2030 target.

Sales of products in the Achiever class of the Beckers Sustainability Index (BSI) continued to grow. Also, this year, the BSI’s classification criteria were updated to keep pace with evolving regulations and scientific consensus. 

Investment in sites, safety, and innovation reached the highest level in Beckers’ history, reflecting a long-term capital commitment maintained through a year of significant geopolitical and trade volatility.

The report also documents progress across employee engagement (a 93% participation rate in the global engagement survey), the inauguration of a new R&D center in Shanghai, and continued advances in renewable-carbon technologies and UV/EB capabilities.

The report describes the SPARK program’s design and the recognition that culture change is the longer-term task. 

Gender representation across operations and leadership is moving in the right direction, but at a pace the company is honest about wanting to accelerate.

While progress on Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions continues, the larger share of Beckers’ footprint lies in Scope 3. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the value chain depend on supplier readiness, customer adoption, and the development of broader market signals for low-carbon solutions.