About Stella-Jones
Stella-Jones is a leading North American manufacturer of infrastructure products, with CDN $3.5 billion in annual sales and over 3,200 employees across its network of facilities. The company’s products support essential utility and railway infrastructure networks.
Stella-Jones believes in prioritizing sustainability and has set a forward-looking sustainability strategy with a focus on measurable and achievable targets. Headquartered in Montreal, the manufacturer aligns its sustainability reporting with the Canadian Sustainability Disclosure Standards (CSDS 1 and CSDS 2). The company is also a member of the Sustainable Supply Chain Alliance, a network of utilities and suppliers working together to advance sustainable practices across their operations and value chains.
The Challenge: Assurance readiness and fragmented energy tracking
Stella-Jones receives third-party assurance of its Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions, consistent with its commitment to data integrity. Its operational footprint makes this a complex data integration and carbon accounting challenge: close to one hundred sites means different combinations of fuel types across facilities with different equipment and reporting histories. External assurance means every datapoint has to be properly documented to withstand scrutiny.
At first, the company’s lean but mighty sustainability team was reconciling energy data in a software tool that required manual entry for each individual facility. This resulted in data entry errors, application of incorrect units, and an inability to validate entries against invoices.
Stella-Jones is also committed to energy efficiency, implementing process and equipment improvements to lower its energy use and improve fuel efficiency. However, the sustainability team and operators lacked a tool that could easily provide access to site-level energy insights to help identify opportunities.
The Solution: Fast deployment and actionable energy dashboards
The manufacturer partnered with Gravity in December 2024 with two initial goals: integrate data across every site in a single platform that reduces manual data entry, and prepare its emissions inventory for the next assurance.
The team started by adding all sites and their energy sources to the Gravity platform, using both direct utility integrations and AI-powered utility bill scanning. As Gravity automatically identified data quality issues, the Stella-Jones team worked with their dedicated climate strategist to make improvements right away rather than leaving reconciliation until assurance season.
The team achieved a complete and assurance-ready carbon footprint in three months. The Gravity platform provided source documents, transparent calculations, and detailed assurance logs for each datapoint, ensuring auditors spent less time searching for primary data, piecing together methodology, and asking follow-up questions.
Alongside assurance preparation, the team built custom dashboards in Gravity to give both the sustainability team and site-level operators a shared way to track energy use against internal goals. The company used those same dashboards to validate site-by-site emissions ahead of the external assurance.
"We can look back and say we've achieved our original goals. It’s made the process more efficient, particularly by reducing the amount of manual data entry. The team has also found Gravity’s integration capabilities helpful."
~ Rhiannah Carver, Senior Director, Project Management and Sustainability, Stella-Jones
The Results: Assurances passed and agentic AI coming online
Adopting Gravity has enabled Stella-Jones to initiate and successfully pass data assurances, including limited assurance, board review, and public disclosure. Today, hundreds of utility meters across sites flow into an assurance-ready carbon footprint and energy dashboards that help the sustainability team and operators monitor progress toward the company’s goals.
Streamlined data ingestion, carbon accounting, and energy monitoring have freed Stella-Jones’ sustainability team to focus on additional sustainability priorities, including managing Scope 3 emissions and a deeper focus on water and waste management.
The Stella-Jones team is also an early adopter of the Gravity Agent, which can do anything in the Gravity platform with code that a user can do with a click. The manufacturer quickly realized benefits across a variety of use cases, ranging from utility cost analysis to supplier data extraction.
"What’s been useful is that the agent can support a range of tasks. We’ve used it to identify sites with missing fuel invoices and pull more detailed data, and we’re now testing it for other applications. As we continue using it, we’re finding additional ways to leverage it to improve our processes."
~ Laurée Corbeil-Phillips, Sustainability Specialist, Stella-Jones