About US
Sustainability
A Message from our CEO
How Our Focus on Sustainability Drives Innovation
Everything we do is in service of our vision: delivering innovation that matters for our customers, employees, shareholders, and the communities where we live and work. Sustainability is not a separate agenda at Novanta — it is embedded across our business. It is part of our Novanta Way culture and is advanced every day through the Novanta Growth System, our set of best-practice tools, techniques, and processes that foster employee engagement, cross-functional teamwork, and continuous improvement at every level of the organization.
I am proud of the meaningful progress we made across both environmental and social dimensions in 2025.
Underlying all of this is a truth I find deeply motivating: Our employees come to work each day not just to solve difficult technical problems, but to do so in the service of others. Whether enabling minimally invasive surgery, advancing automation safety, or supporting clean energy production, our products and components work behind the scenes to improve the health and quality of life of people around the world. Investing in sustainability today is how we ensure we can continue delivering that innovation well into the future.
Matthijs Glastra
Chair of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer
Environment
Novanta’s Commitment to Sustainability: Achieving Net Zero Operational GHG Emissions and Promoting Renewable Energy
We are dedicated to reducing our environmental impact and promoting sustainability across all our operations. Our ambitious goal is to achieve net zero operational greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. We have set short-term and medium-term targets to reduce our GHG emission intensity and increase the share of renewable sources in our energy mix.
Key Environmental Achievements:
- GHG Emissions: We have successfully achieved third party verification on our total Scopes 1 and 2 GHG emissions with limited assurance annually since 2022. For the first time in 2025 water and energy were also assured.
- Renewable Electricity: In 2025, 71% of our electricity consumption came from renewable sources, and we continue to seek opportunities to increase this percentage, including 100% renewable electricity coverage at all our UK and EU facilities.
- NovantaSUSTAIN: We successfully held NovantaSUSTAIN Days focused on eco-design and product lifecycle assessment, integrated sustainability criteria into product design processes, and developed sustainable packaging solutions.
Join us in our journey towards a sustainable future and be part of a company that values environmental responsibility.
If you would like to read more about our environmental program, please check our sustainability strategy and programs for an overview and from more details on our annual performance check out our sustainability performance report 2025.
Social
Social Responsibility and Community Engagement: Empowering our People and Fostering Inclusivity
Our employees are our most important asset. We strive to promote a culture where our workforce is characterized by inclusivity and a strong sense of belonging. Equally important, we strive to keep our people motivated and engaged by providing ongoing learning and development opportunities.
As an innovation-driven company, fostering an inclusive culture that promotes belonging and values diverse perspectives is essential to realizing our vision of delivering innovation that matters.
Key Social Achievements
- Engagement: Our employee satisfaction score in the most recent survey in February 2025 was 97% of the benchmark score. This is an improvement of 2 percentage points compared to 2024. Following each survey cycle, we review the results with our teams across the Company and develop specific action plans based on the feedback we receive. We continue to see participation in cultural and community-building activities and launched our Site Engagement Leader program across 18 global sites, giving employees a direct voice in the decisions that shape their workplace.
- Employee Resource Groups: Our Employee Resource Groups continue to bring people together across geographies and backgrounds, from collecting winter coats for families in need to hosting conversations on equity and justice.
- Best talents: Across our workforce of approximately 3,000 people, we remain committed to hiring, developing, and promoting the best talent regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or disability status.
Be part of a team that values inclusion, belonging, and community involvement, and helps drive innovation that matters.
If you would like to read more about our social program, please refer to our 2025 Sustainability Report.
Governance
Corporate Governance and Ethical Standards: Ensuring Transparency and Regulatory Compliance
As a leading global provider of key technology solutions to the medical and advanced manufacturing markets, we drive technical and economic progress while remaining committed to our sustainability responsibilities for the wellbeing of future generations and for achieving our business goals now and in the future.
Sustainability is not just the right thing to do; it’s an essential element in our continued growth. Therefore, we place the responsibility for managing and making decisions on these topics with our most senior leaders, the Leadership Team, under the oversight of our Board of Directors.
As we mature on our sustainability journey, we are embedding sustainability considerations throughout our operations. We are harmonizing our approaches in key areas, such as supply chain management, product development, talent acquisition and employee engagement. At the same time, we are integrating sustainability into our policies and procedures at the global company level and working towards cascading them throughout the organization.
Join a company that prioritizes ethical behavior, transparency, and responsible governance, and be part of a team that drives positive change.
If you would like to read Novanta’s Policies visit the Compliance page on our website.