At The Toro Company, we take pride in our responsibility to employees, customers, shareholders and the environment. For more than 100 years, we have cultivated our reputation around trusted relationships and constant innovation to help our customers enrich the beauty, productivity and sustainability of the land.

We are committed to the protection of the environment and the well-being of our employees and contractors and, accordingly, we continue to strive to:

• Comply with applicable federal, state, local, and international laws and regulations governing environmental protection and healthy and safe working environments;
• Consider environmental and safety factors in connection with the design and manufacturing of new products;
• Minimize the environmental impacts of manufacturing through responsible operating practices, including resource conservation, pollution prevention and recycling practices; and
• Improve environmental, health and safety performance.

The Toro Company’s Tomah, Wisconsin, manufacturing facility, which produces professional equipment sold worldwide, is registered as ISO 14001:2004 compliant. This requires integration of environmental protections and compliance into all aspects of the business to ensure continuous improvement.

The internationally recognized ISO 14001 certification assures that recipient businesses fully consider the environmental impact of their practices. It requires evaluation of the site’s compliance status with all applicable environmental regulations. If the site is not in compliance, a corrective action plan is required to achieve compliance before the registration is granted. A matrix of environmental risk is created and reviewed annually to identify continuous improvement projects for the location. These projects are monitored with milestones and deadlines. Any training or documentation needed to maintain compliance and continuous improvement is delivered, and careful records must be kept.

The Toro Company’s Tomah manufacturing facility has also been recognized by the Wisconsin environmental program, Green Tier, for the excellence of its environmental programs.

• Our irrigation testing facility in Riverside, CA, includes a closed-loop system that utilizes filtered, recycled water to minimize overall water and energy consumption.


• The Toro Company installed exhaust-scrubbing equipment to reduce carbon monoxide and other contaminants by more than 90 percent at its engineering test facility in Bloomington, Minnesota.


• The company's global manufacturing facilities further reduce environmental impacts by:
  • Recycling steel, aluminum, plastics, cardboard packaging and paper.
  • Recovering and reusing powder (paint) coating.
  • Recycling water used in production through a wastewater treatment system.
  • Replacing certain cleaning systems with new systems for reduced energy and water requirements.
  • Replacing inefficient lighting fixtures to reduce our energy usage and carbon footprint.
  • Recycle and reuse 90+ percent of plastic scrap generated by manufacturing drip irrigation products by recovering and reusing them in our processes.


• The company has implemented a rainwater collection and redistribution system at its facility in Adelaide, Australia, to irrigate the grounds.


• Where feasible, The Toro Company transports product components from suppliers to our facilities in reusable or recyclable packaging.