A Sustainable Future
We really do care...
About the environment, about society, about the economy.
We care about how we impact the environment.
We care about people; we care about women, we care about young people.
We care, because we want to leave the right kind of legacy for future generations.
All our activities in manufacturing and management have sustainability in mind, constantly setting ourselves new goals. We want to become more and more in harmony with nature and good practices when using resources.
Our Journey
Using the UN Sustainable Development Goals list of 17 main subjects as a yardstick, we all take part in prodding, probing, and pushing the whole company to do better. Basing our approach on GRI Standards we are working on developing all environmental, social, and economic aspects of our company.
Our resources are finite, so we owe it to future generations to change how we use them.
Some of the things we have put in place to become more responsible with our consumption levels include using:
- PVD Coating for metal finishes
- Water based adhesives
- PE Rope
- FSC Certified Wood
- REACH compliant steel that adheres to EU/UK regulations ensuring that the steel does not contain prohibited Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC)
- Foams that pass RoHS testing, meaning they are free of lead, mercury, cadmium, and hexavalent chromium flame retardants & phthalates: PBBs and PBDEs.
We make sure we choose paints, stains, and varnishes that have lower level VOC emissions to ensure that products are not harmful to the atmosphere.
Using water based paints, stains and varnishes that are are in line with the limits of international Low VOC standards we make sure that the health and environmental impact of our products are less harmful.
70% of our standard fabric options are manufactured in an environmentally conscious manner with Oeko-Tex, Greenguard and/or EU Eco Label certificates.
Our standard leather option is a faux leather that is 95% vegan, a first of its kind.
50% of our standard outdoor fabrics are made from 100% recycled materials.
98% of our cardboard packaging is made from recycled materials, and the plastic bags we use for protection are made from D2W added, biodegradable material.
In addition to these, 100% of our packaging is recyclable.
In line with our aim of becoming a greenbuilding by 2030, we are linking all the improvements to our aim of lessening our negative impact on the environment and society at large.
In the area of energy consumption we use green electricity, we use automatic water taps to lessen the use of running water and we use local waste disposal and decontamination services run by the Council.
When we ship products by truck to Europe and the UK, we minimize our carbon footprint and environmental impact by using carbon offset certified shipping. This allows us to reduce our carbon emissions and also supports our sustainability efforts externally when delivering products to our customers.
In addition, on a local level, we have a staff transport service so that the number of employees that drive to work is lessened.
We are striving to ensure that all our relations, whether with our employees, our suppliers, our project partners or the local community, are in line with UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We also urge others to follow in line with this approach.
When it comes to the wellbeing of our employees we maintain our high retention level with some of our blue collar employees being 2nd generation working alongside their fathers, and a lot of our white collar staff having joined us after their university graduation and still with us after 10 years. We are a company that employs over 200 people, and proud to say that 25% of our employees are under the age of 30, and 50% of white collar employees are women.
Quality & Testing
We have obtained and are maintaining the certifications below:
ISO 9001 (Quality Control)
ISO 14001 (Environment Management)
ISO 45001 (Occupational Health & Safety)
FSC
We are consistently making more improvements to become more streamline and making the factories more productive with regards to human and energy resources, optimising the organisational flow of activities and also the insulation of the buildings.