Our commitments

Sioen is committed to the conduct of an ethical business on all levels by acting fairly and honestly in all our dealings and by observing the highest standards of integrity. To achieve these, our company utilises the shareholders’ investments in a sensitive manner while delivering safe and quality products to our clients. We comply with both the spirit and the letter of legislation and submit all our actions to an external audit.

We invest in the environment, because a healthy environment is the condition to all life and activity. At Sioen Industries, we want to contribute to solving the challenges our environment faces today: climate change, search for alternative sources of energy, use of less raw material, reduction of waste and emissions, a.o.

Our corporate social responsibility - a better tomorrow

Sioen invests in a sustainable society. In business processes and relationships, Sioen Industries strives to preserve and improve the global environment through a pro-active environmental policy as explained in our CSR Manifest.

ISO 9001

Quality management systems - Requirements are directly audited by a third party.

ISO 14001

ISO 14001 sets out the criteria for an environmental management system. It maps out a framework that a company or organization can follow to set up an effective environmental management system. It can be used by any organization that wants to improve resource efficiency, reduce waste and drive down costs.

Human rights

The UN Global Compact is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. source: www.unglobalcompact.org.

REACH

We guarantee that we are fully REACH conformant. REACH is the European Community Regulation on chemicals and their safe use. It deals with the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical substances. Reach aims to enhance the human health and environment through a better and faster identification of the intrinsic properties of chemical substances.

Confidence in textiles

For pro-active sustainable product development.

STeP

Sustainable Textile Production — STeP — is the new OEKO-TEX® certification system for brands, retail companies and manufacturers from the textile chain who want to communicate their achievements regarding sustainable production to the public in a transparent, credible and clear manner. As market leader, we want more than high quality products. We also want our production processes to be sustainable.

We are the first PPE manufacturing company to receive a STeP certification. The audit revealed that Sioen Apparel complies with the highest requirements of STeP by the OEKO-TEX® standard level 3 in regard to our structures, processes and management systems.

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CSR manifest

We refer to our separate CSR manifest. This brochure contains all information on the Sioen activities and on our Corporate Social Responsibility actions and policies.