Our environmental stewardship includes minimising our own businesses impacts on the planet, as well as providing smart solutions that underscore the importance to our customers, stakeholders, and end users. As an example of our environmental credentials, we have been independently assessed and attained ISO14001 certification, the global environmental management standard.
Our efforts
Renewable Energy
In an effort to reduce our GHG emissions, we have now started to generate our own electricity via the implementation, and expansion, of our solar panel project. In the first year of implementation emissions were reduced by 150 tons.
Solid Waste Management
The manufacturing of gloves yields waste offcuts that are usually incinerated. As incineration is a toxic process we wanted to find a way to upcycle our leftover rubber, for example, into rubber building bricks or soft tiles for playground flooring.
Contribution to Increased Forest Cover
We have now established a plantation program whereby we are planting trees to increase forest cover. Why? Because every tree that is planted is able to absorb, when mature, around 21kg of carbon dioxide a year. In addition to reducing the amount of GHGs produced per manufactured glove, our goal is to offset our emissions and over time become 100% carbon neutral.
Sustainability through extended use
Our gloves are designed to be laundered and reused so that the end user can extract every piece of technology out of them. This provides an economic benefit to the end-users as they don't need disposing prematurely and reduces the amount of waste.
It also reduces the amount of materials required to manufacture a new glove and the energy/greenhouse gases, required for that process.
We believe that all safety gloves should be designed, and certified, for re use.
