Responsibility Brochure - Flipbook - Page 8
Lucy Gormley, Finance
How do you feel OEKO-TEX® STeP has made us more sustainable as a business?
More and more we hear about how the world is changing, global weather events, pollution in the oceans, sewage
overflows into rivers and loss of habitat. What we do as individuals and collectively can and will make a massive
difference to what happens to our world. Knowing that our business and the goods we manufacture are OEXOTEX-certified provides our customers and, in turn, their own customers reassurance that using us as a supplier
means that they are also contributing to that collective change, and we are embracing this ethos.
How has OEKO-TEX® STeP changed your day-to-day role?
In my own role I9m continuing to improve on the ways we record what we
do and how we do them so we can maintain the high levels expected with
OEKO -TEX certification.
How did you feel when we achieved the accreditation?
So proud to be a part of the team achievement; with the many
collaborations and all the additional hours it9s taken to get to the audit, I
was overjoyed that all the hard work was rewarded.
Phil Harris, Yarn Stores
How do you feel OEKO-TEX ® STeP has made us more sustainable as a
business?
We can source more ethical products. We work with a lot of companies
already that have the OEKO-TEX® stamp on their things, a lot of our
suppliers. If we can focus on those companies, then we know that they're
also doing the right thing, and that will make us more sustainable in that
sense.
How did you feel when we achieved the accreditation?
Oh, I'm very proud. I think that's a very good thing, it's a symbol that says
we're working properly, with the good ethics and sustainability.
Clive Golding, Health & Safety Manager
How has OEKO-TEX® STeP changed your day-to-day role?
It's made me aware that just because we've had a chemical product for a long time again doesn't necessarily
make it environmentally-friendly to use. So, when we're coming to do COSHH assessments we're looking closely
at whether they are environmentally-friendly or not really; if they're not then we look for alternatives.
How did you feel when we achieved the accreditation?
Firstly, a sense of relief that we've achieved the accreditation. Pride for that achievement, Sudbury Silk Mills
being able to give customers that fabric to use from Sudbury, which has been manufactured to a very
environmental standard. A drive to continue to improve and be better at what we do. Achieving also
communicates, I feel, our excellence to our customers and the rest of the world, who might be potential
customers, and hopefully it will protect our business because we've got the accreditation.
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