We’re committed to being a globally responsible business.
Sustainability
Sustainability is an integral part of Christie’s past, present, and future. We design innovative technologies with energy efficiency and environmental responsibility in mind, reducing our carbon footprint while maximizing performance.
Our practices incorporate environmental stewardship, compliance, product quality, safety, social responsibility, and strong governance.
Christie’s philosophies
Customer centricity
Understand our customers’ needs
Embrace solutions that exceed our customers’ expectations
Champion our customers’ growth and success
Enhance product and service quality
Sustainability
Focusing on people, climate, and community
Pursue social value
Develop a diverse workforce
Reduce environmental impact
Support the communities where we live and work
Operational excellence
Pursue a collaborative approach to business planning and operations with our parent company, Ushio Inc.
Overcome barriers that inhibit us from creating the best-in-class products, solutions, and services our markets require
Continually navigate and establish process improvements
Governance
Espousing and maintaining the highest standards of ethical behavior
Promoting corporate integrity and transparency
Continuously striving to adopt “best practices” in corporate governance
Encouraging a philosophy of “continuous improvement” in codes, policies and procedures
Governance policies
Read more about the policies and statements that are part of our governing principles.
Christie® and Ushio use the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) as the benchmark for our ESG goals. Since 2004, Christie and Ushio have worked proactively on a long-term sustainability plan.
We implemented this plan in phases and surpassed our 2020 Environmental Action Plan (EAP) to become a global low-carbon, recycling-orientated, and biodiversity-preserving company. What’s our next phase? To develop an enhanced, broader eco-rating system aligned with industry standards to achieve our goals towards 2030.
2004
Formed Christie Green Team
Began collecting environmental data in North America
2007
Achieved ISO14001 certification for our main facilities
Created 3-year Environmental Action Plan
2009
Joined InfoComm's GreenAV Task Force
2010
GreenAV Task Force proposed providing LEED credits for sustainable AV products to USGBC
Worked with EnergyStar and TCO to create professional projector standards
Joined InfoComm's Standards Planning Committee
2011
Awarded Canada's Greenest Employer by MediaCorp
2012
Introduced action plans with CO2 targets
Added solar power at two locations in California
Completed LEED Gold facility expansion in Canada
Awarded Canada's Greenest Employer Award for 2nd year
2014
Established Eco Score rating system
Awarded Canada's Greenest Employer Award for 3rd time
2018
Established emissions energy management improvement at North American facilities
2022
Established emissions for laser-based products
Started reporting product energy consumption
Formed ESG steering committee
2023
Achieved leading energy efficiency in 3-chip DLP® RGB laser projection in lumens/watt
Introduced best-in-class 3-chip RGB energy performance laser projectors with reduced physical and environmental footprint
Launched sustainable packaging initiative
2024
Broadened and aligned product improvements as per IEC 62075
Sustainable packaging improvements continue
We're lighting the way to a sustainable, brighter future for everyone
Our people
Our people matter, from employees to vendors to partners and customers. We identify six different areas where we can have a positive social impact: Employee relations, customer relations, community relations, human rights, supply chain management, and social impact.
Our people-oriented sustainability goals are focused on two key tenets:
Employee relations: Including fair wages, safe working conditions, training and development opportunities, diversity and inclusion opportunities, and employee engagement and satisfaction.
Customer relations: Ensuring our products and services are safe, reliable, and meet customers’ needs.
Our climate
Making sustainable choices is a top priority at Christie. Over 20 years ago, we formed a Christie Green Team to improve environmental performance and align with Ushio’s mission. We also began collecting environmental data at our North American facilities to improve environmental practices in our products, processes, procedures, and facilities. Since then, environmentally sustainable actions and landscaping have expanded to other sites globally.
To protect the environment, reduce environmental operating costs, and achieve continual improvement toward our 2030 goals, our current practices include engineering products with ECO-design to promote the development of green and super green products while continuing to provide market-leading value to our customers.
Our community
We proudly support the global communities where we live and work and the industries in which we do business.
To do this we create and support local events and programs for environmental and social causes. In 2023, we launched Christie Ignite to support young, or “next-gen,” industry talent through events, webinars, free courses, and networking and knowledge-sharing opportunities.
Our 2024 actions
1
Maintain or improve the energy efficiency of our products and minimize the environmental impact of Christie facilities where possible
2
Ensure differences are valued, policies and practices are equitable, employees have a sense of belonging, and support our communities
3
Continue our improvement of practices, controls, and procedures
Our 2030 goals
Reduce our carbon footprint by 50%
Continue to achieve superior efficiency (lumens per watt) over our competitors
Continue to achieve year-over-year reductions in overall resource consumption (water, electricity, natural gas, and landfill diversion) or year-over-year improvements in the efficiency of resource consumption
Continue to collaborate on industry-leading or "best practices" for super-green products
