Parts of our production set-up depend on a number of carefully selected international suppliers and sub-contractors. To qualify as a HOWE supplier, you have to share our approach to production quality, environmental accountability as well as social responsibility. Therefore we regularly visit our suppliers' production facilities worldwide to ensure that working environments always exceed the standards set out in the ILO Conventions.

To qualify as a supplier or sub-contractor in the HOWE partnership programme, you also have to comply with a strict set of standards concerning the consumption of natural resources and handling waste from your production facilities.

We have the greatest respect for all the companies with which we do business, and we see our employees and business partners not as workers, architects, accounts or subcontractors, but as valuable and competent partners whom we support, rely and depend on. Consequently, HOWE has always been widely acknowledged as a company with high ethical standards and a straightforward business partner.