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Demonstrating sustainable progress

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Andy Land, Head of Sustainability

We're making strong progress to cut our emissions. Our total footprint, emissions per product sold and the emissions per £ of revenue are all decreasing, and as our own emissions are increasingly measured and reduced, our focus is expanding to our industry and supply chain, where the greatest opportunity for further decarbonisation lies.

Andy Land Global Head of Sustainability

18-month key numbers

The Group has made significant progress rolling out sustainability initiatives over the 18-month period to 28 February 2026, with 114 products now having at least one initiative implemented, up from 69 in FY24.

In our Content Creation division, the Focusrite Scarlett Gen 4, Novation Launchkey MK4 and ADAM Audio H200 and D3V all have a series of sustainability initiatives implemented, including recycled plastic and improvements to packaging design to remove unnecessary items, which also reduces volume for more efficient shipping.

The Group’s Audio Reproduction division has done equally well. Martin Audio’s Blackline Q range now uses 85% post consumer recycled ABS in its structural plastic components, cutting the range’s per unit carbon footprint by 14%.

Initiatives like these are becoming standard practice now, supported by 8 separate engineering teams across the Group with a sustainability function, a shift from just a few years ago when this work sat with a much smaller group of people.

 

 

Our environmental strategy

Internal Operations External Operations Industry Leadership
Target Maintain current sourcing levels of renewable energy in all offices where available. Achieve our near-term decarbonisation science-based target (still to be finalised and approved). Validate our science-based targets for decarbonisation, including near-term and Net Zero targets, by the end of 2026 at the latest.
Focus Our internal operations and our offices. Our external operations and what we send out into the world. The wider music technology industry.
18-month update to 28th of February 2026 We are already sourcing renewable energy where available and are likely to set one of our science-based targets to maintain or increase this procurement level. We have updated our previous carbon neutral products target to align with our near-term science-based target once approved. This will require significant carbon reductions to our products, around 53% for Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2031 against a 2021 baseline. We have now formally submitted our near-term and Net Zero science-based targets to the SBTi. Our focus now shifts to getting these validated, as well as continuing to engage with the CDP.
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Environmental metrics and targets

Being a UK based company, we are committed to achieving Net Zero status by 2050 at the latest, in line with the UK Climate Change Act. This is our target too, and we are working to understand how quickly we can achieve this ahead of schedule by developing science-based targets.

Having committed to this process, we have since developed our near-term, long-term and Net Zero targets and submitted these to the Science-based Targets initiative, where they are currently undergoing validation.

Environmental disclosures

Our complete Scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon dioxide equivalent footprint is summarised here. All units are gross tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (‘tCO2e’) unless stated otherwise. For Scopes 1 and 2, we have purchased verified carbon credits to account for residual emissions for a third consecutive financial period, alongside continuing to source renewable energy where available.

Category Metric 18m to Feb 26 12m to Feb 26 12m to Feb 25 % of 18m gross CO2e footprint
Intensity metrics tCO2e per product sold 0.061 0.053 0.067 -
tCO2e per £m revenue 489 457 504 -
Scope 1 GHG emissions Total Scope 1 253 146 187 0.21%
Scope 2 GHG emissions Total Scope 2 174 115 124 0.14%
Scope 3 GHG emissions Total Scope 3 120,162 75,319 81,813 99.65%
Totals Scope 1, 2 and 3 120,590 75,580 82,124 100%

The Group’s emissions per product have reduced significantly over the last 18 months, coming down from 84kg CO2e per product across 12 months in FY24 to 61kg CO2e in the 18 months to February 2026 (and down from 57 CO2e comparing the same 12-month period to Feb 25). This has been in part due to a changing product mix, but we are also seeing the effects of increased renewable energy availability globally, combined with the initiatives we have been rolling out into mass production starting to take effect on our Purchased Goods & Services emissions.