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Exponential Return on Investment

Quantified Results for Business Performance, Efficiency and Environmental Impact

Ecolab helps customers achieve ambitious business goals and environmental targets—especially in water conservation. With an unparalleled combination of science and service, we deliver exponential outcomes that benefit customers and communities. Fundamental to our approach is an understanding that real and lasting change is accelerated when economic and environmental benefits align with improved performance, operational efficiency and sustainable impact.

Delivering Exponential Value

We call this our eROI outcome: the exponential value of improved business performance, operational efficiency and environmental impact

Measurement is a critical component of our process to deliver exponential outcomes. Using our proprietary eROISM value approach, we measure our impact and quantify customers' return on investment.

We start with what matters most to our customers – performance – and link performance outcomes to environmental and social metrics and cost savings to demonstrate the triple-bottom-line benefits of sustainability.


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Driving Profitability Through Smart Water Management

Water conservation is a critical component of helping customers achieve ambitious business goals and environmental targets. Ecolab has unmatched expertise in water management, so we know exactly how to develop an inception-to-implementation water strategy for businesses that want to drive profitability. Ecolab has advanced water stewardship in our own company, and we help customers worldwide implement sustainable water strategies that achieve exponential ROI. Learn why businesses can thrive when water conservation is done well.

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Growth & Impact Report

Moving Forward, Faster, Together

Ecolab is working with our customers and supply partners to build a positive future. Together, we are creating lasting positive impact while driving business growth.

eROI Success Stories

See How Ecolab Partners With Customers To Solve Their Most Difficult Challenges

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Delivering on Our eROI Promise

Our eROI value approach quantifies what matters most to our customers:

  • Business Outcomes: We help customers achieve their goals based on their key business drivers, while ensuring clean, safe and healthy environments.
  • Operational Efficiency: We identify ways to improve productivity, operational capacity and compliance to ultimately reduce the total cost of operations.
  • Environmental Impact: We help customers minimise impact on the environment to reach their sustainability goals. We measure the sustainable impact of our solutions against a set of sustainability indicators that align with customer key business drivers across a diverse set of industries.

Through eROI outcomes, we quantify and communicate the exponential value of our solutions to customers and help customers measure progress toward their internal goals.

Simply put, eROI is the outcome of doing business with us.

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eROI is the exponential value of improved business performance, operational efficiency and environmental impact we deliver for our customers.

Measurement is a critical component of our process to deliver exponential outcomes. Using our proprietary eROI value approach, we measure our impact and quantify customers' return on investment to link customer business performance outcomes to environmental and social outcomes and cost savings to demonstrate the triple-bottom-line benefits of sustainability.