Westmorland Furniture is committed to a sound environmental policy, promoting the benefits of implementing such a policy in order to improve energy efficiency and to reduce the adverse effects upon the environment.

Westmorland Furniture is fully committed to reducing energy consumption, improve energy efficiency and urge all partners to adopt such an approach.

Westmorland Furniture is committed to purchasing all timber from legal sources and seeks evidence of compliance from suppliers that they are operating in accordance with the laws of their country. The Company unreservedly condemns illegal logging practices and keeps informed of processes and changes in international legislation. Westmorland Furniture has implemented Chain of Custody (CoC) procedures to ensure these materials meet the Government and C.P.E.T. (Central Point of Expertise in Timber) policy and guidelines on sustainable forest management practices and are obtained from legal and sustainable forest sources.

Westmorland Furniture endeavours to comply with the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) criteria. As part of this system it is the policy of The Company to avoid using timber harvested from forest areas where traditional or civil rights are violated, timber harvested from non FSC-certified forest areas having high conservation values which are threatened, timber from genetically modified (GM) trees, illegally harvested timber and natural forest that has been converted to plantations or non-forest use.

Westmorland Furniture endeavours to source all goods from a known primary manufacturer and where ever possible undertakes factory inspection and assesses supplier social and environmental attitude. Almost all goods are from the EU where a strict health and safety code is applied to the benefit of customer, employee and company.