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Sustainability

Craft that doesn't cost the earth

Organic and recycled fibres, fair wages, safe factories, and community work, all measured and traceable from field to fold.

Sustainable materials and making
Our sustainability journey

Two decades in, and still tightening the loop.

What started as a handful of certified lines has grown into a facility built around organic and recycled fibres, fair wages and full traceability — the same commitments, just more of them, for longer.

20+
Years of Craft
200+
People Employed
08
Certifications Held
Our people

Take care of your surroundings, and they take care of you.

We don't only watch the bottom line. We watch what the business does to the people who make it work and the place it operates in — measured in wages, benefits, schooling and the number of people who stay.

200+
Employees
<2%
Annual Turnover
30 yrs
Longest-Serving Staff
Extended health coverageRetirement & pension plansAnnual bonusesHealth & safety training
Maison Malmo staff member at work on a sewing machine
The policy

Maison Malmo is committed to

Nine commitments, audited against SA8000 and Fairtrade criteria rather than left as intentions.

01Premium wages for all permanent employees
02No use of child labour, anywhere in our operations
03Safe and hygienic working conditions
04Health and safety training for every worker
05Freedom of association and collective bargaining
06Regular employment, not casualised contracts
07Selection free of bias on race, caste, religion, disability, gender or marital status
08Equal opportunity in hiring, training and promotion
09A compassionate approach to termination, compensation and retirement
Two Maison Malmo staff members finishing a textile product by hand
Community

Learning to read and write changes lives.

Our community work runs across health, education, livelihoods and women's and children's welfare — closest to home in the schooling of our employees' children.

01

Scholarship funds for underprivileged children, and education grants for employees' families.

02

Organic cotton satchels distributed at an open school in Mumbai — dignity in something as small as a bag.

03

Annual educational programmes and blood donation drives run from the facility.

Schoolboys at their desks in a Maison Malmo-supported classroom
In practice

Photo gallery

A Maison Malmo staff member having her blood pressure checked at an on-site health camp
Annual health check-ups
Staff taking part in a mock fire drill at the Maison Malmo facility
Fire safety drills
Schoolchildren on a field trip supported by Maison Malmo
School field trips
Handing over education grant materials to an employee's family
Education grants
Maison Malmo team members celebrating together
Team celebrations
Maison Malmo staff members at the facility
Life at Maison Malmo
Fairtrade

A standard that reaches the people, not just the product.

Fairtrade blends social, economic and environmental criteria, holding traders to them so the commitment does not stop at the farm gate. The Textile Standard extends that through manufacturing: better wages, safer conditions, fair terms of trade.

01

Farmers and workers hold an equal say in how the standard is run.

02

Minimum price and premium protect producers from volatile markets.

03

Working conditions are audited across the supply chain, not self-declared.

Fairtrade field officer reviewing crops with a farmer
Why organic

Conventional cotton is the most chemical-intensive crop we grow.

Fast fashion has put enormous pressure on cotton to be quick and abundant. The chemistry that makes that possible ends up in the air, the water and the soil, and in the health of the people who farm it.

GOTS is our answer, certifying not just how the fibre is grown but how it becomes a finished product: responsible processing all the way to the label on the bag.

Farmer hand-picking organic cotton in the field
Chain of custody

Field to fold

A certificate is only as good as the paper trail behind it. Every order can be followed back through five documented handovers.

01

Farm

Certified organic or Fairtrade cooperatives, named on the scope certificate.

02

Ginning & spinning

Segregated lots, transaction certificates issued at each transfer.

03

Weaving & dyeing

Approved chemistry only, tested to OEKO-TEX® limits.

04

Cut & sew

SA8000-aligned units, audited for hours, safety and pay.

05

Ship

Order-level documentation packaged with the shipment.

Farmer holding freshly picked cotton in the field
What we hold

The standards

Each certification covers a different part of the same promise — the fibre, the people who grow it, the people who sew it, and the chemistry in between.

Global Organic Textile Standard
Fibre

Global Organic Textile Standard

Certified by GCL · GCL-302373

Organic status from harvest to label — no harmful chemistry, and social criteria at every processing stage.

Fairtrade Textile Standard
People

Fairtrade Textile Standard

Textile Programme · Licensed

Fair terms of trade through the whole supply chain — better wages, safer conditions, an equal say for farmers and workers.

Global Recycled Standard
Recycled

Global Recycled Standard

Textile Exchange · GCL 302373

Verified recycled content and chain of custody for our RPET and recycled cotton, with chemical restrictions attached.

OEKO-TEX® Standard 100
Chemistry

OEKO-TEX® Standard 100

Tested for Harmful Substances

Every component tested — fabric, thread, hardware — against a limit list stricter than regulation requires.

SA8000 Standards
Workplace

SA8000 Standards

Social Accountability International

An auditable standard for socially acceptable practice on the factory floor — hours, safety, freedom of association, pay.

ISO 9001:2015
Quality

ISO 9001:2015

Quality Management System

Sampling, production and inspection run to a documented system — so consistency across repeat orders is a process, not a promise.

ISO 14001:2015
Environment

ISO 14001:2015

Environmental Management System

Energy, water, waste and emissions measured at facility level, with reduction targets reviewed and audited each year.

IGBC Green Rating — Gold
Facility

IGBC Green Rating — Gold

Indian Green Building Council

Gold-rated manufacturing facility — daylight, water conservation, waste handling and site management assessed against IGBC criteria.

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