LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 12, 2026--
Coats Group plc, a world-leading Tier 2 supplier of critical components to the apparel and footwear industries, today announced the publication of its 2025 Sustainability Report, highlighting substantial progress against its five sustainability pillars of Energy, Materials, Water, Waste and People – with early achievement of several 2026 targets.
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“Sustainability remains at the heart of Coats and our ambition to help shape the future of apparel and footwear,” says David Paja, Group CEO. “ As one of the world's leading Tier 2 suppliers, we welcome the opportunity to lean into our scale and expertise to leave a lasting, positive impact on our communities, customers, people and planet.”
Key Progress Across the Five Pillars Includes:
Energy
Coats is committed to reducing its scope 1 & 2 emissions across its operations, while also accelerating its transition to renewable energy on its path to Net Zero. In 2025, Coats:
Materials & Circularity
Coats is innovating to drive a transition to low-impact raw materials and a longer-term reduction in Scope 3 emissions across its supply chain. In 2025, Coats:
Water Management
Coats is taking an integrated approach to water stewardship — combining technology, recycling systems, and process optimisation to reduce freshwater extraction across its operations. In 2025, Coats:
Waste Management
Coats is eliminating waste to landfill and scaling circular solutions that keep materials in use for longer. In 2025, Coats:
People and Culture:
Coats is committed to building a safe, inclusive and high-performing culture. In 2025, Coats:
“ Exceeding several of our 2026 targets ahead of schedule shows what’s possible when ambition is matched with disciplined execution and collaboration across our value chain,” says Chris Dearing, Coats VP Group Sustainability. “Although this year’s results reflect outstanding progress, we know there’s even more work to do and remain fully committed to driving impact-led sustainability across the industry.”
In December 2025, Coats also featured on the Carbon Disclosure Project’s (CDP) A List for the first time, achieving an A- rating for Climate Change and A rating for Water.
All reported sustainability results exclude OrthoLite, which was acquired by Coats in October 2025. In 2026, Coats will further refine its targets for 2027 – 2030 and integrate OrthoLite into future reporting.
The 2025 Sustainability Report was prepared using the Global Reporting Initiative ("GRI") reporting standards. Climate disclosures are shared more extensively as part of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure ("TCFD") section within its 2025 Annual Report.
More information is available at: www.coats.com/Sustainability
About Coats Group plc
Coats is a world-leading Tier 2 manufacturer and trusted partner for the apparel and footwear industries. We deliver essential materials, components, and software solutions that help our customers grow, compete and win.
With over 250 years of industry expertise, we’re shaping the future of the apparel and footwear supply chain through insight-led innovation, impactful sustainability practices, and digital technologies that unlock better product quality, efficiency and performance.
Headquartered in the UK, Coats is a FTSE 250 company and a constituent of the FTSE4Good Index. In 2025, we generated $1.5 billion in revenue and employed approximately 19,000 people worldwide – all united by a spirit of innovation, quality and service.
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1 Based on 2022 baseline
2 Excluding asbestos and medical waste
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DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) — A week before he armed himself with a rifle and rammed a vehicle into a synagogue outside Detroit, Lebanese-born Ayman Mohammad Ghazali learned that four family members had been killed by an Israeli airstrike in his native country, officials said Friday.
Private security guards at Temple Israel killed 41-year-old Ghazali on Thursday after he crashed into the building and drove down a hallway as his vehicle caught fire, authorities said.
The FBI, which is leading the investigation, described the attack on one of the nation’s largest Reform synagogues, located in suburban West Bloomfield Township north of Detroit, as an act of violence targeting the Jewish community.
None of the 140 children, teachers and staff inside the synagogue were injured, authorities said.
Temple Israel had taken steps to prepare for an attack. Last summer, the synagogue announced it was hiring a former local police lieutenant as its full-time head of security to oversee its in-house, armed security guards. Earlier this year, its clergy and staff underwent active shooter prevention and preparedness training, according to a post on Temple Israel's Facebook page.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin during a news conference Friday praised Temple Israel’s private security for swiftly stopping the attack.
“If they had not all done their jobs almost perfectly, we would be talking about an immense tragedy here with children gone,” Slotkin said.
Ghazali lived in a single-story brick home in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn Heights about 38 miles (61 kilometers) south of the synagogue. On Friday, the front window was boarded, the front door was padlocked and an Amazon package addressed to Ghazali sat on the porch.
“In the four years I’ve lived here, we never really got past pleasantries,” said Chadi Zreik, who lives two houses down. “We all got acquainted with him in the last 24 hours.”
Ghazali came to the U.S. in 2011 on an immediate relative visa as the spouse of a U.S. citizen and was granted U.S. citizenship in 2016, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
An Israeli airstrike on March 5 killed four people in the town of Mashgharah, Lebanese officials reported. Israel has stepped up attacks on the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon as the war with Iran has spread violence across the Middle East.
A local official in Mashgharah told The Associated Press on Friday that the airstrike killed Ghazali’s two brothers, a niece and a nephew at their home just after sunset as they were having their fast-breaking meal during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
The official, who requested anonymity because he could not publicly discuss details of the airstrike, told the AP that Kassim and Ibrahim Ghazali were killed, along with Ibrahim Ghazali’s children, Ali and Fatima. Their mother was seriously wounded and remains in the hospital, the official said.
Dearborn Heights and its larger neighbor, Dearborn, have some of the largest populations of Arab Americans in the U.S. Signs of the culture are everywhere, from restaurants to mosques.
Dearborn Heights Mayor Mo Baydoun spoke to reporters Friday about Ghazali losing family members overseas.
“That grief is real and it's heartbreaking,” Baydoun said, "But there is never an excuse for violence, especially violence directed at a sacred space.'
Osama Siblani, publisher of The Arab American News in Dearborn, said it’s common to hold a memorial service in the U.S. for someone who died overseas. “Sharing feelings always gives you comfort, whether in bad times or good times. You don’t feel like you’re alone,” Siblani said.
A flier last weekend promoted a service for Ghazali’s relatives at the Islamic Institute of America in Dearborn Heights. The mosque’s leader, Imam Hassan Qazwini, said Friday he had seen Ghazi only once. He strongly condemned the synagogue attack, saying houses of worship should be spared from political violence.
“Islam forbids holding innocent people accountable for acts done by others,” Qazwini said in a text message to an AP reporter. “The unjustified Israeli attack on civilians in Iran and Lebanon gives no blank check to anyone attacking synagogues, civilians and peaceful communities.”
Synagogues around the world have been ramping up security since the U.S. and Israel launched missile strikes against Iran on Feb. 28.
At Temple Israel, a security officer was hit by the vehicle and knocked unconscious but did not suffer life-threatening injuries, Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard said. And 30 law enforcement officers were treated for smoke inhalation.
Oakland County is Michigan’s second-largest county with roughly 1.3 million people. The majority of Detroit-area Jewish residents live there. Temple Israel has 12,000 members, according to its website.
The attack was the second at a house of worship in Michigan within the past year. Last September, a former Marine fatally shot four people at a church north of Detroit and set it ablaze. The FBI later said he was motivated by “anti-religious beliefs” against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
White reported from Detroit. AP journalists Alanna Durkin Richer in Washington and Russ Bynum in Savannah, Georgia, contributed.
The exterior the home of Ayman Mohamad Ghazali is shown in Friday, March 13, 2026, in Dearborn Heights, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
A police vehicle sits outside the Temple Israel synagogue Friday, March 13, 2026, in West Bloomfield Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Police tape hangs outside the Temple Israel synagogue Friday, March 13, 2026, in West Bloomfield Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Police tape hangs outside the Temple Israel synagogue Friday, March 13, 2026, in West Bloomfield Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Police vehicles sit outside the Temple Israel synagogue Friday, March 13, 2026, in West Bloomfield Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Police vehicles sit outside the Temple Israel synagogue Friday, March 13, 2026, in West Bloomfield Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Law enforcement escort families away from the Temple Israel synagogue Thursday, March 12, 2026, in West Bloomfield Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Law enforcement escort families with children away from the Temple Israel synagogue Thursday, March 12, 2026, in West Bloomfield Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Law enforcement escort families with children away from the Temple Israel synagogue Thursday, March 12, 2026, in West Bloomfield Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Law enforcement respond to a call at Temple Israel synagogue Thursday, March 12, 2026, in West Bloomfield Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Law enforcement respond to a call at Temple Israel synagogue, Thursday, March 12, 2026 in West Bloomfield Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Corey Williams)
