Certificates and Ecolabels

 

Why we care

It can be difficult to find products that take social, environmental, and economic factors into consideration. Certificates and ecolabels guide consumers, customers, suppliers, and manufacturers to make decisions that secure health, quality, safety, environment, and social responsibility.

 

Our goal

Our goal is to certify 70% of our products with at least one third-party verified ecolabel by 2030. We want to make it easy for our customers to make fact-based decisions when purchasing our products, for instance by providing data on our products' environmental footprint. By certifying our products and production methods, we can minimize flaws and deficiencies that can evolve into risks.

 

We take action within three main areas:

ISO certifications

  • 24% of our own companies are ISO 14001 certified (environmental management).
  • 25% of our own operated production companies are certified with ISO 50001 (energy management).
  • 60% of our companies are ISO 9001 certified (quality management).
  • 4% of our companies are ISO 45001 certified (working environment management).

FSC and PEFC certificates

  • 21.72% of active wood-based products carry the FSC or PEFC certificates (> 50% wood-based materials).
  • 4.06% of active wood-based products carry the FSC 100 % certificate.

Ecolabels

  • 36.62% of own active item numbers carry at least one third-party verified ecolabel. That is an increase of 2.3 % compared to 2021/2022.
  • Two of our own production sites, ABENA Produktion A/S and ABENA-Frantex, have achieved the STANDARD 100 by OEKOTEX® certificate.
  • We have added the Global Recycling Standard to our list of ecolabels that we count into our climate targets.