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Sustainability.
OUR SUSTAINABILITY GOALS
OUR GOALS 2024
We will work to reduce our climate impact
As our customer, you have chosen a supplier that works to reduce its climate impact from both products and services. In 2024, we began the work of calculating our greenhouse gas emissions for the entire value chain, as a step towards reducing our contribution to climate change and helping our customers with their goals. Our electricity in our own operations is 100% carbon dioxide-free. We optimize our transportation so that the delivery that reaches you will have the lowest emissions possible. We continuously review our vehicle fleet so that we always have the latest environmentally classified vehicles.
OUR GOALS IN 2024
We will enable a resource-efficient circular economy
As a customer, you are offered choices in our extensive range. For example, eco-labeled products, renewable raw materials or recycled materials. To help you further, there are also the tools Klimatkompassen® and "Make your shopping cart more sustainable". We are also constantly improving our products, and take responsibility for ensuring that they comply with current legislation.
OUR GOALS IN 2024
We will promote an inclusive, safe and equal workplace
As a customer, you have chosen a supplier that sees equal rights and opportunities for its employees as a matter of course. Everyone, regardless of gender, transgender identity, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation or age, should feel included. The work environment should be free from discrimination and harassment, with equal pay and the opportunity to combine work with parenthood.
OUR GOALS IN 2024
We will conduct good and fair trade
As a customer, you have chosen a supplier who takes responsibility for their supply chain, even outside Sweden's borders. We refrain from doing business where good working conditions cannot be guaranteed by the supplier. We take nothing for granted, but carry out quality checks and audits ourselves on site.
SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2024
Did we achieve our goals in 2024?
In our Sustainability Report, we explain how we have identified which goals we should work with and report what we have worked with within each goal and how we have succeeded in achieving them.
AMONG THE TOP 35% GLOBALLY
Tingstad receives bronze in EcoVadis sustainability assessment
At the end of 2024, Tingstad conducted a comprehensive sustainability assessment via the independent platform EcoVadis. The assessment covers four key areas: environment, working conditions and human rights, business ethics and sustainable procurement.
The result? Tingstad was awarded a bronze medal, placing us among the 35% best-performing companies globally out of a total of over 150,000 evaluated companies from 180 countries and 200 industries.
What does a bronze medal mean?
EcoVadis rates companies on a scale of 0 to 100 points. The medal levels are:
๐ฅ Platinum: Top 1% (78–100 points)
๐ฅ Gold: Top 5% (70–77 points)
๐ฅ Silver: Top 15% (59–69 points)
๐ค Bronze: Top 35% (50–58 points)
Companies that score below 50 points are not awarded a medal at all. This means that many companies do not reach the medal level, which makes the bronze medal an important seal of quality.
Next step – towards the silver level
Our score is close to the silver limit, and we have already developed a clear action plan to reach the next level. Priority actions are to:
- Implement climate calculations for the entire operation
- Have our climate targets validated according to SBTi (Science Based Targets initiative)
- Strengthen the monitoring of our suppliers
- Improve traceability in the value chain
The fact that we now have an EcoVadis rating also means increased transparency in our sustainability communication – both internally, towards our customers, suppliers and other partners.
SUSTAINABILITY POLICY
Sustainability should be a fundamental and guiding principle for our entire business. We are the link between producer and user and surrounded by companies in both directions. Our sustainability vision is therefore to influence and drive the sustainabilit
We have chosen to divide our sustainability area into four primary areas where we want and make a difference.
Our suppliers
We see our suppliers as an extended part of ourselves. Their factories, environmental impact and the terms that their employees work under are essential parts of the products that we introduce to our customers. To be working for a factory that Tingstad does business with should therefore comply with the same terms that Tingstad’s own coworkers have, in regards to human rights and a safe working environment. To be a supplier to Tingstad also implicates to carry out the business with a high consideration to the environment and to have established routines for that. Our Code of Conduct and audits at our suppliers are important tools that we use to communicate, monitor and improve this commitment.
Our own business
To carry out a business, of any sort, always has an impact on the environment. We have chosen establish tough goals and guidelines on how our daily business can have as low impact in the environment as possible. The transporting emissions that our business cause should be optimized and improve by every year. Our coworkers should be trained on how their working day can be carried out in a way that has as little impact on the environment as possibel, and educated to guide our customers on how they can make a more sustainble product choice.
The waste, water consumtion, electricity and emissions that our business cause should be optimized and should be continously improved by every year.
Our assortment
Tingstads is established as a market leading supplier with a huge assortment. We consider this to include a large responsibility. We should offer our customers a wide range of products that constitutes a more sustainable choice. This containts products that:
- Can easily be re-used or recycled
- Are produced under responsible and sustainable terms
- Are produced by renewable resources or claim minimum use of nature’s assets
- Has an official eco label
In 2014 we launched a product assortment under the name A more Sustainable Choice. These products hold one or several of the above properties. Our vision is to be market leading within this area and continuosly introduce new products under this range.
The world we live in
The parts of the world or the society that we through Tingstad not directly can impact, still affect us on a human level. We have chosen to every year donate a part of Tingstad’s profit to organizations that can make the world a little better for fellow human beings around the world.
Our Projects
Plastic Bank.
In 2021, Tingstad has become a partner of Plastic Bank and in 2022, we at Tingstad will launch new pump soaps, marked with Plastic Bank. This label means that for each bottle sold, we donate a sum that guarantees that 5 plastic bottles are picked up and prevented from ending up in the sea. Our hope and wish is that this will generate a good contribution to a better world environmentally and socially.
Giving Tuesday.
Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 as a counter-reaction to consumer-driven days like Black Friday and Cyber Monday, with a focus on encouraging thoughtfulness and generosity. This year, we at Tingstad are once again supporting the Rescue Mission’s Giving Tuesday movement with a call to action: donate 25 SEK via Swish, the equivalent of breakfast for a homeless person.
Beepartners.
Tingstad supports Beepartners. Beepartner's mission is to create greener cities for the future. In the spring of 2021, 30,000 bees moved into a hive on our roof. By being a sponsor of all these bees, we benefit our local environment at the same time as we develop our environmental work and hope to spread the knowledge about the bees' role as pollinators.
How important bees and pollinating insects are to us humans has probably not escaped anyone. Bees and other pollinators play a key role in biodiversity and food production. We have already harvested our first honey, which in itself is another good and wonderful advantage of being sponsors of bees.
The Fistula Hospital Foundation.
Tingstad supports the Fistula Foundation since 2009. The Fistula Hospital is located in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, and is a hospital for women suffering from birth injuries, obstetric fistula. The fistula hospital foundation is a non-profit, non-political and non-religious foundation in large need of donations for their work.
Such a hospital is uncommon, even though many women are injured. Women as a group have a subordinate position and often suffer from malnutrition. Female genital mutilation is common and despite legislation girls often gets married and becomes pregnant very young. This leads to difficult births were the child dies and the mother suffers from genital injuries. Through operations and care the fistula hospital helps these women back to a normal life.
Doctor Catherine Hamilton, one of the founders, came to Ethiopia 1959 together with her husband Reginald to educated midwives. They were both deeply moved by the women who found their way to the hospital, but that no one could help, and decided 1974 to start their own hospital. Today they have five hospitals and one college for training. A couple of years ago Doctor Catherine Hamlin was awarded The Right Livelihood Award as a recognition for her accomplishment.
To read more about the foundation, visit www.fistulasjukhuset.org
Faktum.
Tingstad supports Faktum. Faktum was founded in 2001 in Gothenburg and is a newspaper sold out on the streets. Anyone who is homeless or facing social exclusion can start to sell Faktum. Vendors buy the magazine for 50 SEK, sell it for 100 SEK and keeps the difference. The work usually involves more than just making money on newspaper sales, it also means taking responsibility, planning the day, create routines and become part of a social context. Faktum is also working to create debate and public opinion on homelessness and social exclusion.
Rescue Mission.
The Rescue Mission is a non-profit organisation, which conducts social work in order to minimize isolation and vulnerability. The vision is that all people have the right to a dignified life.
Environment & Quality
We are certified to ISO 14001: 2015 Environmental, and 9001: 2015 for Quality. This is what it means for our customers:
- At least 98% of our deliveries will reach a customer at the promised time. We measure all deliveries, and act immediately, without delay, if something goes wrong.
- We only ship products from manufacturers that comply with applicable legislation, which comply with the United Nations Code of Conduct. We conduct continuous audits at factories in Asia and cater to our customers with audit reports.
- We document our customers’ opinions annually and promptly address any issues that may arise.
- We conduct quality controls on our customers' products, and ensure traceability through the entire production chain.
- It is our task to keep up to date with the laws and regulations that our customers' products are subject to. A customer of Tingstad should be able to be examined by authorities without any worries.
- We assume responsibility for continuously presenting products that belong in the sustainable society of the future.
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PART OF THE BUSINESS
ISO since the 90s.
We have been ISO certified since the 1990s and in 2016 we were one of the first in the industry to be certified against the new environmental standards 14001: 2015 and 9001: 2015 for quality.
Our ISO work means that all our departments work with the environment and quality, that our staff are trained and that we work to constantly improve our work.
Our Code Of Conduct
A good deal is about more than money.
By taking responsibility and doing good business that is not only good for us and our customers - but for the entire chain - we weave together sustainability with purchasing.
A basic requirement we place on all our suppliers is to maintain a high standard of ethical, social and environmental conditions in their operations. We also carry out booked visits, unbooked visits and audits at suppliers at risk lengths.
An lighter delivery
Corrugated pallets
We deliver on corrugated pallets. A wooden pallet weighs 10-12 kilos, while a corrugated pallet only weighs 2 kilos, something you will notice when you eventually handle the pallet. The lighter weight of the well pallet means that less fuel is used in the transport it to you as a customer, which in turn results in lower CO2 emissions. Our goal is for approximately 70% of our pallets to be corrugated pallets. The weight limit on the corrugated pallet is approximately 400 kg, which means that wooden pallets will still have to be used to a certain extent
