11/05/2025
Celebrating Innovation at Pentair’s 2025 Sustainability Innovation Challenge
Pentair showcased its continued focus on sustainable innovation at the second annual Sustainability Innovation Challenge. This internal Challenge aligns with Pentair’s business strategy and sustainability strategic targets.
This year, we brought together employees and teams from across the company, each collaborating on bold ideas designed to help Pentair advance our mission of helping the world sustainably move, improve, and enjoy water. The Challenge showcased the creativity and passion of Pentair’s employees and reinforced the integration of sustainability into business and product design.
Watch and see the Sustainability Innovation Challenge in action!
The theme of this year’s challenge was customer obsession – with each team focusing on how we could create customer value using sustainability strategies. New this year, ideas developed in the business workshops were accelerated with help from our interns, and the challenge was expanded beyond product innovation to include business models. The Challenge culminated in the final idea pitch event, where business teams presented ideas to leaders from across the company. The judging criteria emphasized and evaluated each ideas’ customer value, sustainability impact, profitable growth, creativity, and concept quality, ensuring that the winning ideas would deliver meaningful benefits.
Teams competed for three different awards as part of the final pitch event. The Sustainability Impact Award honored the team whose concept demonstrated the greatest measurable sustainability outcomes, including reductions in water, energy, and waste. The Sustainable Business Model Award recognized a team for developing a creative, sustainable go-to-market strategy that promises substantial financial growth while solving real customer problems. Finally, the Sustainable Product Design Award celebrated the most inventive and environmentally responsible product, highlighting creative solutions and sustainable materials or processes.
I look forward to seeing how the winning ideas develop, evolve, and come to life to help benefit people and the planet. By empowering employees to innovate and embedding sustainability into our processes and products, Pentair continues to deliver value to customers, shareholders, and communities. Together, we’re helping the world sustainably move, improve, and enjoy water.
