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Meat and Poultry Industry NewsSupplier NewsFood SafetySustainability

Americold cuts emissions, improves energy efficiency and strengthens facility reliability across global network

Sustainability Report detais cold chain solution provider's operational performance.

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Americold Realty Trust
April 14, 2026

Americold Realty Trust ,a global supplier of temperature-controlled logistics real estate and value-added services, has released its 2025 Sustainability Report, highlighting continued progress across energy efficiency, emissions reduction, safety performance, and facility resilience within its global cold storage network.

Customers depend on Americold’s network every day to protect food and keep their supply chains moving. The 2025 report reflects how disciplined operations, engineering-led execution, and targeted capital investment in facilities are working together to ensure reliability.

“Leading companies today treat sustainability not as a reporting exercise, but as a resiliency strategy,” said Rob Chambers, chief executive officer. “At Americold, that means managing energy, innovation, safety, and risk with the same discipline we bring to every customer commitment. For our customers and shareholders, that translates into a dependable network that consistently fulfills our mission-critical promise to deliver food safely and reliably.”

2025 performance highlights

During 2025, Americold made measurable progress across several key operational and sustainability metrics, including:

  • 21.0% reduction in Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions from 2021 baseline
  • 30,822 MWh of renewable energy generated, with 46 facilities sourcing 100% carbon-free electricity
  • More than $23 million invested in energy efficiency and facility improvement initiatives, including LED lighting upgrades, automated refrigeration controls, and energy-optimization projects
  • 912 Energy Waste Walks completed, reinforcing consistent, site-level energy and performance management
  • 24.4% waste diversion rate, exceeding internal targets
  • Continued improvement in associate safety, with Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR), Days Away, Restricted or Transferred (DART), and Lost Time Incident Rate (LTIR) each more than 40% below U.S. refrigerated warehousing industry averages

As mission critical infrastructure for the flow of food and other critical goods around the world, the cold chain must operate continuously, safely and efficiently – and data plays a key role. More than 90% of Americold facilities capture real-time utility data, enabling targeted efficiency improvements and consistent performance tracking across regions.

“Reliability and efficiency are core to how we design and operate our facilities,” said Brian Dunn, Senior Vice President, Facilities & Engineering. “Our engineering teams are constantly analyzing where performance and sustainability intersect – optimizing refrigeration, deploying automation, and maintaining energy discipline in environments that must operate safely and continuously, 24/7.”

Benchmarking, governance and transparency

Americold benchmarks its sustainability performance against industry peers using established third-party frameworks, including the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB). In 2025, the Company was recognized as a GRESB Sector Leader for the Americas in the Industrial – Standing Investments category, reflecting portfolio-wide execution in energy management, governance, and operational resilience.

The 2025 Sustainability Report references leading global disclosure frameworks, including GRI, SASB, TCFD, and ISSB IFRS S2, and includes independently assured environmental data.

The full 2025 Sustainability Report is available at www.americold.com/culture-values/sustainability/.

Source: Americold

KEYWORDS: Americold cold chain cold storage refrigerated distribution

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