Sustainable development
Armor Lux is a responsible company committed to sustainable development. Hence it is managing many policies and projects aimed at the promotion of a fairer economy based on transparency, solidarity and ethics.
Social responsibility and ethic
In January 2004 Armor Lux signed the United Nations’ Global Compact charter inviting companies to endeavour to respect a set of fundamental values in the fields of Human Rights, work and environment.
Armor Lux is a member of the Comité 21 (French Council for environment and sustainable development) and hence has committed itself on 5 points for the next 10 years:
- Adopt responsible production and consumption habits and reduce carbon dioxide emissions
- Contribute to preserve bio diversity and promote sustainable tourism
- Respect cultural diversity and fight against exclusions
- Support environmental channels and social economy
- Reinforcement of international solidarity
Since 2005 is Armor Lux is a member of the ORSE (Study Center for Corporate Social Responsibility) and regularly takes part in work groups on territorial anchoring and responsible purchases.
Armor Lux adhered in 2005 to the citizen fibre programme implemented by the NGO Yamana promoting a fairer economic, social and environmental development.
Armor Lux has edicted a social responsibility charter in which the company commits itself to:
- comply with social regulations on both a national and international level
- promote sustainable development among its activities, particularly in economic, social and environmental grounds
- follow those standards and demand its partners and suppliers the respect of those same principles.
Environnemental protection
Its will to guarantee a high level of health protection to its consumers and to minimise the impact on environment naturally incites Armor Lux to implement the best available techniques.
The dyeing workshop in Quimper is OEKOTEX 100 certified in December 2005.
All items (dyed knitwear, bleached or washed) bear the quality seal for class
1 products.
This quality label guarantees the production process is in compliance with
European regulations concerning the presence in these products of undesirable
substances like for the use of azo dyes.
Fair Trade
Armor Lux signed a licence contract with Max Havelaar (France) permitting the marketing of garments made of fair-trade cotton since January 2005. This new type of trade aims at supporting Western and Central African small underprivileged producers and relies on:
- a fair price paid to producers guaranteeing them minimum wages, covering their production costs and allowing their families to live with dignity from their work
- a premium for development is granted to the cooperative. Its allocation is decided in a democratic way by farmers’ families and workers themselves for the good of everyone (access to water, schools and warehouses)
- respect of Fundamental Human Rights : refusal of exploitation of children, hard labour, men and women parity.
Nearly 30 000 producers are today taking part in this original and innovative
approach and benefit from the creation of the fair-trade cotton network.
Garments manufactured by Armor Lux and bearing the Max Havelaar seal of approval guarantee:
- the quality of the cultivation and harvesting : selection of cotton heads, hand harvesting in cotton bags
- environmental care : dangerous pesticides are forbidden, chemical intrans, GMO free seeds
- equity in business relationships with underprivileged farmers.
