Sustainability

With us you are always on the safe side

Just producing hosiery is not enough for us. We feel obliged to the people behind it as well as to nature and stand by our responsibility. For this reason we are regularly inspected and certified by independent testing institutes for social and ecological standards.

Social Compliance

ESDA is committed to international social compliance standards and applies these standards to its relationships with suppliers across the world. These include

  • U.N. Guiding Principles for Economics and Human Rights,
  • OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises,
  • OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct,
  • OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains in the Garment and Footwear Sector,
  • ILO working standards.

ESDA is a member of the Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI), a non-profit organisation based in Brussels which was founded in 2003 on the initiative of the Foreign Trade Association (FTA). ESDA is committed to the principles of the amfori BSCI Code of Conduct.

The social compliance of ESDA and its suppliers is regulated in its own Code of Conduct.

Sustainable organic products from Germany

From the cotton boll to the thread, the dyeing and processing, from the knitting until finally a finished sock is in the hands of the customer, it takes many steps as well as chemicals and raw materials. Worldwide, almost a quarter of the available insecticides are used on cotton fields. Through media coverage and the proliferation of product tests where questionable ingredients are found, consumer awareness of the issue of sustainability has increased more and more.

Esda Strumpfwerke faces up to this responsibility and demand. That is why all our knitted hosiery is Oeko-Tex certified and most of it is GOTS certified. Our cotton comes from the BioRe project in India and Tanzania. By supporting BioRe, we are jointly making a valuable contribution to nature and people, as it serves to promote organic cotton cultivation, fair trade and toxin-free textile production.

For small batch sizes and individual products up to the upper price segment, we have a production facility in Germany. Here, you get the best processed, individual knitted hosiery and can rely on sustainable materials and manufacturing processes. Our production chain is GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard) and BSCI (Business Social Compliance Initiative) certified and fully traceable at all stages.