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On behalf of our entire team at Trinity, we are incredibly proud of our people and culture, our strong track record of operational excellence and risk management, and our collective role as stewards of the environment.
At Trinity, we remain proudly committed to rail solutions that deliver goods—safely, efficiently and sustainably—for the good of our customers, shareholders and employees in all the communities we serve.
OUR COMPANY Trinity Industries, Inc. began providing industrial products and services to customers more than and services.
We operate industry-leading railcar leasing, manufacturing, and services businesses, by operating as a single source for comprehensive rail transportation solutions and services for our customers.
We deliver an outstanding customer experience by providing high quality, innovative products and designing solutions that enhance and optimize the ownership and usage of railcars by our customers and enhance the value-proposition of the rail modal supply chain.
We report our financial results in three principal segments: the Railcar Leasing and Management Services Group, the Rail Products Group, and All Other (which includes our Highway Products business).
At Trinity, we are committed to Delivering Goods for the Good of All.
Our railcars have likely carried the materials that built them.
We may have delivered it from the farm to grocer.
Our railcars play an important role in North Amer ica as they deliver essential goods that keep the economy moving and enrich the lives of people in communities across the continent.
At Trinity, we remain committed to rail solutions that deliver goods—safely, efficiently and sustainably - for the good of our customers, shareholders and employ ees in all the communities we serve.
Delivering Goods for the Good of All is why we proudly come to work each day.
Our Core Values are the foundational characteristics of our Company.
We strive to live these Core Values throughout our daily work and interactions with each other, our customers, and our shareholders.
Each serves as our cultural cornerstone and defines how we accomplish our purpose.
with the four core components of the Green Bond Principles and Green Loan Principles 2020.
allowing for efficient and safe transportation of goods.
Under the newly issued framework, currently eight of TILC’s outstanding debt financings, representing over $ meet the criteria and qualify for the Green Financing designation.
Trinity is the first North American railcar leasing company to achieve the designation.
Trinity’s Mexico facilities first received the “Empresa Socialmente Responsable” (ESR) badge in maintained this distinction for 2020.
Trinity’s Mexico CSR program is part of our broader environmental stewardship and social responsibility program, which addresses employees, suppliers, and customers, as well as the local community.
Trinity’s Mexico team achieved success by focusing on four pillars: quality of life, our close relationship with the community, environment, and Company ethics.
and painting classrooms, fixing overhead lighting and wiring, installing exterior lamps, and donating and installing playground equipment, as well as donating employees dedicating over 13,000 hours to the program.
Both Trinity’s new corporate headquarters and our Highway business’s new headquarters are the first Dallas, Texas-based buildings to receive the WELL Health-Safety Rating.
third-party verified rating system focused on employee health and wellness.
health and wellness protocols in our building operations to help mitigate virus spread.
is committed to supporting the health and wellness of our employees.
Responsible Care companies are industry leaders, playing a vital part to ensure that the business of chemistry is safe, secure, and sustainable.
Trinity maintains Responsible Care® certifications, including performance measurement and preventive and corrective actions, which includes self-assessments and Responsible Care Management System maintenance procedures.
DIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: Trinity was selected as a “Top Diversity Research Institute (DRI).
DRI assessed racial and ethnic diversity derived from available biographical information for companies based on the race of board members and executive leaders.
Further, DRI compared companies’ racial and gender diversity to county and state population demographics for Harris and Dallas counties.
(LWR), an organization committed to connecting and cultivating women in the rail industry through industry knowledge sharing and scholarships.
Trinity achieved Bronze Recognition as a part of the Workplace Health Achievement program established by the American Heart Association (AHA).
assessment that measures both the health of our workplace and the health of our workforce.
The results are calculated by gauging the quality of workplace health programs and culture of health best practices, as defined by AHA.
This was Trinity’s first time taking part in the assessment.
Trinity is proud to present our first Corporate Social Responsibility Report.
This Report covers the in alignment with the SASB Rail Transportation standard.
We began preparing for the Report by evaluating material topics identified by the organizations noted below, as well as ongoing discussions with our Executive Leadership Team and insight and review from our Board of Directors.
This Report captures our sustainability strategy and future goals.
As we continue to integrate and advance sustainability throughout our Company, we have identified next steps in our strategy, including a more formalized assessment, enhanced reporting and visualization capabilities for our environmental efforts, completing our first questionnaire as part of the CDP global environmental disclosure system, and further development of and reporting on our Diversity and Inclusion Initiative.
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY We recognize climate change is a challenge facing our business, industry, and communities today.
We are committed to contributing to a more resource-efficient economy and embedding climate change mitigation into our business strategy to help confront environmental challenges, including managing energy efficiently, increasing fuel economy and sourcing materials ethically.
We strive to be a leader in the rail industry, which continues to provide a sustainable way to fuel the operating supply chain.
Notably, U.S. freight railroads produce far fewer greenhouse gas emissions than other modes of land-based commercial transportation, such as trucks.
Railcars also have long lifecycles at plus years and are nearly fully recyclable through scrap and salvage at the end of their useful lives.
of infrastructure across North America and the rest of the globe.
With a range of transportation applications spanning from freight to passengers, rail transportation offers an economically sound, fuel-efficient, and sustainability-oriented alternative for shippers and consumers alike.
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the rail industry are far fewer than in other forms of freight transportation by land.
Trinity’s goal is to continue as a sustainability leader in the railcar industry by enhancing the value proposition of the rail supply chain to move more freight by rail.
freight volume is handled with less greenhouse gas emissions thanks to freight rail 1.
Data sourced from International Energy Agency “Future of Rail” Report: https://www.iea.org/reports/the-future-of-rail 3.
Railcars have an expected lifecycle of over 40 years and are highly recyclable.
Trinity plays a key role in each phase of that lifecycle, including the design, repair, maintenance, and recycling of rolling stock, promoting Trinity railcars as highly sustainable capital equipment.
used rebuilt and recertified brake valves in our maintenance operations.
Trinity’s rail platform works to continually provide customer-focused solutions.
As a leading manufacturer of railcars for over five decades, we have a steadfast commitment to quality.
We strive to help our customers keep their railcars in-service providing lower cost of ownership, more efficient fleet sizing, consistent service, and greater peace of mind.
A key measurement that impacts in-service time is Unexpected Out of Service Event rate (“UOSE Rate”), or the rate of an identifiable mechanical event that removes a railcar from service.
overall population of railcars produced by Trinity experienced UOSE rates all other railcars produced during the same timeframe.
We are proud of our quality programs and continuously strive to provide quality products and innovative solutions to our customers.
To learn more about Trinity’s commitments to product quality and efficiency, please see our Statement on Product Stewardship in our ESG Statements.
( in our wholly-owned and partially-owned lease fleet, which totaled 107,045 railcars as of December 31, 2020.
Served 6 The quality and safety of our products and services are a high priority.
We aim to design and develop products that can be manufactured, transported, and used safely.
To manage the safety and quality of our products, Trinity is certified to the Association of American Railroads (AAR) specification for Quality Assurance M- operations, and our highway operations are certified to ISO 9000.
Scope tions in our facilities, such as the combustion of natural gas in boilers and furnaces, while Scope 2 GHG emissions come from sources which are purchased and used by Trinity, such as electric utility power.
Conversely, Scope including those owned by other companies.1 In 2020, our total natural gas emissions were 24.0 metric tons of GHG Equivalencies per million dollars of revenue, and our total Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG Equivalen cy emissions were 88.5 metric tons per million dollars of revenue.
We are proud of the progress we have made, but we have goals to continue to reduce our emissions.
The Company did not measure Scope emissions in 2020.
targets to help drive an increased focus on sustainability throughout the organization.
The Company plans to enhance the visual tools from business analytics to analyze month-to-month fluctuations in GHG emissions, energy use, water use, and toxic waste to better equip our business to further our environmental sustainability efforts.
We also continue to invest in technologies that further our sustainability goals.
In which brings advanced robotic technology that uses a closed-loop water recycling system to the railcar cleaning process to increase safety, efficiency, and sustainability.
We expect to scale these services at additional main tenance facilities over the next few years to service our own fleet of leased railcars as well as other strategic customers.
Preserving the natural environment and taking steps to mitigate the effects of climate change is a responsibility that Trinity takes seriously.
Trinity strives to be a leader in the clean rail transportation industry and has incorporated climate change mitigation into our business strategy.
We are working to reduce energy use and GHG emissions in our business operations, as these issues are of high importance to our customers, employees, and company leadership.
Trinity recognizes the importance of mitigating the environmental impact associated with rail transportation operations by evaluating and reducing manufacturing emissions and by promoting clean fuels and cost-effective technologies.
To further reduce solvent air emissions in our coating operations, Trinity increased its use of regenerative thermal oxidizer technology and continued to work with paint manufactur ers to develop and test low solvent coatings.
We plan to increase the use of thermal oxidizer technology at our facilities in 2021.
We have also made improvements to reduce particulate matter in our coating process through high-efficiency filter control technology in our facilities.
This framework will enable TILC to issue green financing instruments, including green non-recourse ABS bonds and green loans, supported by green eligible assets.
• Minimizing Impact: Our environmental management system helped to minimize the environmental impact of our operations, with six of our U.S. facilities now operating under EPA defined Minor Source emission level.
We are committed to continuing to reduce additional facilities to the same level.
Going forward, we will also continue to actively explore ways to purchase an increasingly higher percentage of renewable energy from our energy providers to reduce our environmental impact even further.
OUR PEOPLE AND OUR COMMUNITIES For the Good of All: our employees make the wheels turn.
Trinity fosters a healthy, productive work environment through our health and safety programs, development and engagement offerings, wellness programs, and diversity and inclusion initiatives.
The health and safety of our employees is our top priority.
We continually seek to improve processes and performance as we operate our businesses with a goal of zero injuries and incidents.
We strive to attract and retain a diverse and empowered workforce, which we believe is a critical factor in Trinity’s long-term value.
Our priorities include fostering an inclusive and collaborative workplace, promoting opportunities for professional development, and improving the well-being of our employees.
Finally, we strive to add value to the communities in which we live and work, strengthening our community relationships and leveraging our business partnerships to amplify our impact.
Our safety management system is designed to identify, assess, prioritize and reduce or eliminate risk to protect our employees and others from workplace injuries and harmful exposure to materials handled and managed at our facilities.
We are committed to continuously improving in the three pillars of our safety culture: ( leadership commitment, (2) employee engagement, and (3) risk reduction.
Trinity maintains Responsible Care® certifications, including performance measurement and preventive and corrective actions, which in cludes self-assessments and Responsible Care® Management System (“RCMS”) maintenance procedures.
commits to environmental and safety risk reduction and parallels several ISO 45001 standards.
Trinity is committed to achieving conformance with the ISO 45001 and 14001 standards, with certification targeted for 2021.
Our SET program was audited by an independent auditor and conforms with the RCMS.