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strategy
challenge
Long and complex
supply chains
The extraction of raw materials and the manufacturing
of materials are part of a complex global context.
For us as an individual operator, it’s a huge challenge
to trace the origin of raw materials such as oil, plastic,
ore and metal, and monitor the conditions under
which they were produced. It’s much easier for us to
influence our direct suppliers. Longer supply chains
are more complicated to map, as we don’t have the
financial relationship with the suppliers, which also
means that we have less ability to influence them.
For the same reason, it’s challenging for us to
influence the efficiency of material use in the
supplier chain.
Wood is unique in that there are good traceability
certifications and this is why we have set particularly
high targets in this area. But the availability of certified
wood is limited at the best of times and has declined
even further as a result of the war in Ukraine. Nor is it
enough for the wood to have traceability certification
– it also needs to meet our high quality requirements.
material requirements We stipulate that all
our suppliers sign up to accept and comply with
the requirements specified in our Code of Conduct
in relation to social conditions and environmental
considerations during production, and that they
forward these requirements up the supply chain.
We insist that all articles we procure must meet
material requirements based on the criteria in the
relevant ecolabels. We also obtain information about
the country of manufacture and have procedures
for monitoring the origin of all wood raw material.
We do not accept wood from forests with high
conservation values, areas which have been converted
from natural forest into plantations, or forests
where there are ongoing social conflicts. Our units
in Kinnarp, Skillingaryd, Tranås and Vinslöv all have
FSC® Chain of Custody traceability certification.
FSC® labelling is a guarantee that the raw material
comes from environmentally adapted, socially
responsible and financially viable forestry.
resource efficiency We’re constantly working
to streamline our production processes and material
utilisation in order to reduce waste. We’ve made
major investments in the Skillingaryd factory, in order
to increase the utilisation rate of textiles with more
precise cutting. Of the waste that still arises, we sort
out polyester fabrics that, together with recycled PET
bottles, are used for the sound-absorbing material
Re:fill in new products. We’ve been participating in the
TexChain3 project in order to develop methods for
using textile waste in more products. One result from
the project is a finished sample of a padding material
consisting of shredded and pressed textile waste from
our own production in Tranås. We’re now working on
implementing the material in some of our products. In
addition to this, we’ve invested in an efficient level laser
for our factory in Jönköping, which reduces sheet
metal waste by 15 percentage points.
Material requirements
and resource efficiency