Extensive Furniture Product Assessments Across Global Supply Chains
Since 2019, we have assessed many hundreds of furniture and furnishing products from more than 20 companies and audited manufacturing sites across Australia, China, Europe and South-East Asia. Products have been assessed against two GECA standards covering Furniture, Foams and Fittings, Mattresses. Each project included a desktop assessment of material specifications, test results, purchase & production records and declarations used to verify the type of material inputs and their conformance to material toxicity requirements, chain of custody, packaging, circularity requirements and fitness for purpose of the finished products.
On-Site Audits for Deeper Verification and Impact
On site assessments were conducted of manufacturing sites to triangulate evidence reviewed during the desktop assessment, visually inspect products and their manufacturing process, verify production data, workplace safety, environmental management and interview workers about their minimum entitlements, safety and working conditions. We have visited dozens of manufacturing sites involved in wood manufacture, plastic injection moulding, steel fabrication, powder coating, foam and textile manufacture and upholstery from companies including Aper Srl, Anibou Pty Ltd, Artek, Commercial Furniture Solutions, Cult, Koala Sleep, OLG and many more.
