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Responsibility

Our work with responsibility and a sustainable mindset covers

NORDIC SWAN ECOLABEL – Our candles meet the Nordic

both environmental and social contexts. Certifications and

Swan Ecolabel specific criteria for environmental performance

testing ensure working conditions in our supply chain are safe

as well as health aspects, quality and safety.

and fair and that our products are responsibly produced and

of high quality.

Where relevant, products are tested before they become a part

of our collection. These include lighting, furniture, outdoor

pieces, kitchen and children’s products. To adhere to REACH

regulations, accredited testing agencies such as the Danish

Technological Institute conduct tests on our products through

processes defined by law.

We currently work with the following certifications and

initiatives:

GOTS – The Global Organic Textile Standard. Recognised as

the world’s leading processing standard for textiles made from

organic fibres. It defines high-level environmental and social

criteria along the entire organic textiles supply chain.

OCS 100 and Organic Blended – The Organic Content

Standard. Verifies the presence and amount of organic material

in a final product, tracking the flow of a raw material from its

source to the final product.

FSCTM – The Forest Stewardship CouncilTM. An international,

non-profit certification scheme for wood and paper. In FSCTM

forestry, animals and plant life are protected and no more

wood is felled than the forest can reproduce. At the same time,

FSCTM ensures that workers’ rights throughout the certified

supply chain are respected.

BSCI – Business Social Compliance Initiative. An industry

driven initiative by AMFORI, which aims to monitor and assess

workplace standards across global supply chains. An AMFORI

BSCI audit helps us to ensure that all our key suppliers treat

their workers legally and ethically correct.

UN Global Compact – We are members of the UN Global

Compact, and our Code of Conduct is based on their Ten

Guiding Principles. It defines the ethical principles of our

business and has been signed by all our partners and suppliers.

The purpose of the principles set out in our Code of Conduct

is to protect workers’ health, ensure their safety during

production and ensure an ethical and fair partnership for

everybody. Our Code of Conduct is available at fermliving.com.

RESPONSIBLE – Today we use RESPONSIBLE as a tag on

our products to signify that a product is either FSC, GOTS or

OSC 100/ Organic blended certified or produced in a recycled

material, such as recycled glass, recycled aluminium, recycled

paper pulp or PET-yarn made from post-consumer plastic

bottles. In the future, our definition of RESPONSIBLE will

expand thanks to our committed work with responsibility

criteria, which will be implemented even earlier in the design

phase.

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