
We are delighted to announce that LSI Stone has joined the Ethical Stone Register. Following completion of the required questionnaire LSI Stone have become the first Declaration level Ethical Stone Register members, providing their clients with the assurance that their material comes from an ESR member company. They will join the list of stones companies on the Ethical Stone Register.
LSI Stone is a Portuguese company with extensive experience in big projects, specialising in cut-to-size projects, coverings, cladding, facades, tiles, and more. They are suppliers of a wide variety of limestones, marbles and granites.
The Ethical Stone Register is a unique resource created specifically for the natural stone industry, in response to The Modern Slavery Act 2015 and the issues of sourcing materials responsibly. The project will allow natural stone companies, whatever their size, to offer a responsible and manageable ethical sourcing solution for their clients.
There are three tiers of membership of the Register: Declaration, Verification and Accreditation and the requirements of each level are explained below:
“Declaration – At this tier, companies will have to complete a questionnaire looking at the responsible and ethical sourcing practices of their business. To achieve this level, a company will need to meet 100% of the criteria. The claims and assertions made by a firm at this level will be by means of self-declaration.
Verification – At this tier, the claims made by a company at the Declaration level will be externally verified. The initial verification will be for the company rather than each material they supply; however, they may choose to have some, or all of their stones included at Verification level. This will involve an independent auditor assessing the journey of the material and ensuring that the responsible and ethical sourcing criteria are met the whole way along the supply chain. Only verified stones will appear on the Register itself.
Accreditation – At this tier, members will have met the requirements of the Declaration and Verification tiers and will be further audited for this level. The aim is to have the scheme recognised and to gain credits within schemes such as BREEAM and LEED at this tier.”
Read the entire news here.
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.