Rockwell Automation

Industrial automation, control hardware, software and lifecycle services

Rockwell describes a Sustainability Calculator for Repairs that helps customers compare repair with replacement, and its customer-sustainability framework includes product lifecycle assessment, supply-chain traceability, waste minimization and circular economy workflows. Public sources do not establish a product-level repair dataset, component recovery rate, material passport or customer-specific result.

FY25 Current sustainable-packaging update

Mixed materials Eliminated from packaging, company-stated

SFI or FSC Required for paper and wood packaging sourcing

Open Format, supplier and site evidence

• Control hardware, electronics, metal enclosures and components
• Corrugated, paper, wood, plastic protection and labels
• Supplier certificates and packaging specifications

Outputs and residuals to resolve

• Automation products, drives, controllers and lifecycle-service parts
• Reusable or recyclable shipping packaging
• E-waste and field-return material requiring controlled routes

First decision: Choose one high-volume automation product or repair family. Capture failure mode, repair path, parts replaced, test protocol, service-life extension, avoided replacement and end-of-life route in one auditable record.

Rockwell says it is right-sizing packaging, incorporating recycled and recyclable materials, and eliminating mixed materials.

Fiber sourcing

The company says suppliers must provide SFI or FSC certification for paper and wood packaging.

Product constraint

Industrial automation hardware must survive shipment and arrive with part identification and documentation intact.

Evidence boundary

Public sources establish the strategy. They do not disclose a named packaging SKU, recycled-content percentage, supplier award, drop-test result or reverse-logistics program.

Decision boundary

Rockwell does not need an invented product-recycling story. Its disclosed material lane is packaging. Make that lane rigorous: one SKU family, one shipping configuration, one supplier specification and one verified end-of-life path.

This is a public screening map. It separates company-disclosed flows from open qualification work. It does not convert a destination into a buyer or an announced ambition into operating capacity.

Create a shipment-level packaging BOM

A packaging strategy becomes credible when materials and performance are visible at shipment level.

Next evidence: SKU family, packaging components, weights, suppliers and transit requirements.

Test one mixed-material elimination

The strongest first change is a format where material separation or substitution can be proven without risking damage.

Next evidence: Current construction, proposed construction, drop test, moisture exposure and cost.

Connect procurement certification to physical intake

SFI or FSC is a supply-chain control, not an end-of-life outcome.

Next evidence: Certificate scope, chain of custody, fiber content and supplier validity.

• Corporate Sustainability and Goals Rockwell Automation https://www.rockwellautomation.com/en-il/company/investor-relations/sustainability/sustainable-company.html
• Investor relations sustainability hub Rockwell Automation https://www.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/company/investor-relations/sustainability.html
• Corporate responsibility Rockwell Automation https://www.rockwellautomation.com/en-ro/sustainability.html
• Industrial Sustainability Solutions Rockwell Automation https://www.rockwellautomation.com/en-mde/sustainability/sustainable-customers.html
• Sustainability as Strategy Rockwell Automation https://www.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/company/news/blogs/sustainability-as-strategy.html
• Current State of Smart Manufacturing 2025 Rockwell Automation https://www.rockwellautomation.com/content/dam/rockwell-automation/documents/pdf/campaigns/state-of-smart-2025/INFO-BR027D-EN-P-noi.pdf

Source hierarchy: filings and company disclosures first. The brief states what those sources support and leaves the unresolved plant, grade, permit, buyer and mass-balance questions explicit.

Rockwell's material transition is a hardware-and-shipping problem. Automation products have long service lives, but every shipment still carries packaging choices that must preserve product protection, traceability and compliance. The next useful working session starts with: Choose one high-volume shipment format and prove that it can be right-sized, mono-material where feasible, responsibly sourced and protective enough for the product's transport and handling conditions.