CSR and Sustainable development policy

Every year ROBUR’s products and processes go through comprehensive audits and assessments to enable the Company to establish optimal plans of action and to reinforce its support for sustainable development. ROBUR is committed to implementing ISO 26000 guidelines by:

• Identifying its social responsibility
• Working on the 7 key questions
• Identifying and exchanging with its participating parties

Today, ROBUR is able to offer its customers a number of guarantees in terms of:

• Governance: ROBUR’s management is committed to implementing ISO 26000 guidelines. It has established a team in charge of developing social responsibility, measuring performance, improving organization, reporting to participating parties and ensuring the law is respected.
• Human Rights: ROBUR has proprietary facilities where it regularly carries out social and quality audits. Today, 100% of its products are made on SA8000 standard-compliant sites.
  Labour relations and working conditions: ROBUR goes beyond the scope of Moroccan labour legislation to ensure its employees benefit from optimal working conditions (remuneration).
• Environment: ROBUR chooses its suppliers based on sustainable development criteria: Oeko-Tex Standard 100-certified raw materials. ROBUR’s key suppliers implement eco-responsible business approaches and are certified:

European Eco Label + ISO 9001 + ISO 14001 + Bluesign

Although ROBUR’s activities produce only a trace ecological footprint, the Company continually strives for optimal waste segregation and collection:

Paper recycling: Recy’Go
OIW recycling: Veolia
Fabric and garment recycling: The Relais

ROBUR uses reusable boxes for its exports; its ink cartridges are rechargeable and recyclable; the cardboard labels on its articles are FSC Ecolabel-certified; it uses eco-friendly raw materials such as TENCEL and Second-Life PET.

• Fairtrade practices: ROBUR implements a responsible procurement policy and fosters sustainable relationships with its suppliers. ROBUR/supplier relationships generally last for several dozen years.
  Fulfils trade/business agreements
  Fulfils and/or anticipates production schedules to avoid overloading
• Consumer health and safety protection: ROBUR protects those who wear its articles by choosing Oeko-Tex Standard 100-labelled fabrics and garments and by carrying out regular labelling checks with its suppliers.
  95% of ROBUR-purchased fabrics are Oeko-Tex 100.
  ROBUR guarantees that all its suppliers comply with the European REACH regulation. 
• Local development and communities: ROBUR bears the FLOCERT label and plays an active role with Max Havelaar France for promoting fair trade by making Max Havelaar-labelled articles.
• Yamana Fibre Citoyenne® programme: As a member of the Fibre Citoyenne® programme since 2009, our products and processes are audited every year to improve their quality and to reduce our ecological footprint even more. Our participation in this programme leads us to pursue an ever-more effective sustainable development approach. Furthermore, as our production unit is located in Morocco, we do our utmost to ensure that safety standards and labour legislation in this country are fully complied with. By adhering to this programme, we guarantee this. We ask independent experts to carry out social and quality audits for us on a regular basis to ensure this.
• REACH: We comply with the limits established by the European REACH regulation and we do our utmost to ensure our raw material suppliers also comply with these. None of our articles contain substances mentioned on the SVHC list (Substances of Very High Concern).
• Oeko-Tex Standard 100: Our Purchasing and Marketing Departments are committed to working, whenever possible, with OEKO-TEX Standard 100-certified raw materials. As some of our qualities have not yet been certified, we send them for testing to a notified body like IFTH (French Textile and Clothing Institute) which draws up test reports ensuring consumer safety. We regularly draft “product safety” datasheets to track and assess the percentage of materials certified.
  Today, 95% of our raw materials are Oeko-Tex Standard 100-certified.