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Artisan Furniture — Integrated Sustainability Governance Framework
A Scientific and Structural Pathway Across B Corp, SMETA, GMP, SBTi, and UKIPO Engineering Protocols
1. Introduction: A Multi-Pillar Sustainability Architecture
Artisan Furniture operates within a comprehensive sustainability governance framework that integrates multiple standards rather than relying on a single system. This includes B Corp environmental and governance principles, SMETA (Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit) requirements, Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) climate alignment, UKIPO-registered patents with quantifiable emissions benefits, carbon accounting across global fulfilment centres, and a structured packaging and waste-elimination programme.
2. System Boundary: Factory-to-Customer-Door Sustainability Model
All sustainability frameworks share a need for clear operational boundaries. Artisan Furniture uses a factory-to-customer-door model covering manufacturing, inland transport, ocean freight, fulfilment, and last-mile delivery. This provides complete visibility over environmental impacts, ethical sourcing, energy usage, packaging, and waste.
3. Material Science and Environmental Stewardship: Solid Wood and Biogenic Carbon
Solid mango wood functions as a long-term carbon reservoir. Mango trees are harvested only after their fruit-bearing lifecycle ends, aligning with SMETA ethics and GMP traceability. Compared to engineered wood and metals, mango wood has lower embodied carbon.
4. Engineering Innovation and Sustainability: UKIPO Knock-Down Patent
The UKIPO-registered knock-down mechanism reduces freight volume, packaging mass, and in-transit breakage. This supports GMP efficiency, SMETA environmental management, B Corp environmental metrics, and SBTi Scope 3 reduction logic.
5. Packaging Governance and Waste Elimination Strategy
By 2026, packaging will be 100% plastic-free, eliminating EPS, EPE, and related polymers. The transition incorporates moulded fibre pulp, starch foams, and engineered corrugated structures.
6. Social and Operational Compliance (SMETA + GMP)
The Jaipur factory follows GMP production, SMETA ethical standards, and controlled-access safety procedures. SMETA and GMP require safe working conditions, process control, environmental oversight, and ethical labour frameworks.
7. Logistics Architecture: Seven-Centre Global Fulfilment Network
Regional fulfilment centres reduce transport distance, routing inefficiencies, and emissions per customer order. Only full-container-load (FCL) shipments are used.
8. Carbon Footprint Measurement and Reporting Architecture
Annual carbon accounting follows GHG Protocol, ISO 14064, and B Corp criteria. Reporting includes energy use, emissions factors, packaging footprints, courier profiles, and waste analysis.
9. Governance Integration: A Unified Sustainability System
The system integrates B Corp governance, SMETA oversight, GMP process control, SBTi climate science, patented engineering, packaging elimination, fulfilment optimisation, and carbon measurement into a multi-standard governance structure.
10. Conclusion
Artisan Furniture’s sustainability governance is a scientifically coherent, operationally integrated, multi-standard architecture. Efforts span environmental science, engineering innovation, carbon modelling, packaging science, ethical operations, and logistics. Each tab—SBTi, B Corp, SMETA, GMP, Patent—draws from the same scientific foundation.
Constitutes an incorporated part of the Policy & Compliance Hub obligations
Published January 2026 | Effective from January 2026 until Superseded or Amended