DESIGN & DURABILITY
– NO USE AND THROW PRODUCTS
Black Hill is a brand with high quality requirements and is mainly found in the product segments bags, backpacks, caps and knitted hats. We always design our products with the user's needs in focus and high functionality is an important issue with us. Innovative solutions, good design and stylish details have been our hallmark ever since the company started in 1983. We are constantly working on product development and all our products are designed by our experienced design team in Sweden.
Sustainability are incredibly important to us and we know that we have a great responsibility in our work. Therefore, our products are tested carefully to ensure that they meet our requirements for quality.
Together with our producers, we manufacture products with smart solutions that should function as a convenient aid in everyday life. Our products must last for extensive use over a long period of time in order to be a sustainable choice.
We also help our customers with special design - from idea to finished product - and can also develop trading products in many other product segments.
FAIRTRADE
If you choose Fairtrade-labelled products, you create opportunities for change. You contribute to farmers and employees being able to improve their working and living conditions. Fairtrade is an independent certification with the stated goal of combating poverty and strengthening people's influence and agency with the aim of creating change and development. We are Fairtrade licensed and have Fairtrade knitted hats in organic cotton.
SEAQUAL INITIATIVE
Black Hill is today a licensed SEAQUAL INITIATIVE member and can offer products made from materials partially made from recycled plastic debris fished out of the ocean. SEAQUAL INITIATIVE works with the waste management and recycling industry to transform marine debris into SEAQUAL® MARINE PLASTIC, allowing leading brands and manufacturers to create inspiring sustainable products.
Social responsibility - CSR
Responsibility is important
At Black Hill, we see our social responsibility as an important part of our work. We have deliberately chosen work in regions where social responsibility is at a higher level than some other parts of the world. It is to us very important that the working conditions are good and follows the local laws, that wages are on a proper level and illegal child labor does not occur. We are constantly working to influence the improvement of working and environmental conditions and the benefit levels of the workers in our factories and in recent years there’s been a clearly noticeable improvement of the wages and worker’s values have improved.
In our Code of Conduct we make demands on our suppliers and also see the cooperation as an important part of together helping to become better in this work. We regularly visit our suppliers and follow personal development and ensuring that our requirements and wishes respected. We also carry out third-party inspections of the suppliers.
LYOCELL
Lyocell is made from cellulose, which is a plant-based material from nature. We have produced a cap in Lyocell material and you can find it on the page.
RPET (RECYCLED PET PLASTIC)
The material is made from recycled PET bottles. We supply bags and caps from materials produced by recycled plastics from, among other things, PET bottles.
Green Line & REACH
At Black Hill we have long experience in producing products in Asia and constantly continue with measures to improve the material development. In our cooperation with our suppliers, we try to continually find and develop methods of production, processing and materials that are better for sustainability.
All of the products we develop are manufactured in accordance with the EU REACH regulations, but with GREEN LINE we special order all materials to be free from all the harmful chemicals that are listed on the SVHC list (Substances of Very High Concern) in REACH Annex XIV.Many of the chemicals in the this list are still allowed but we have choosen to take them away. This is GREEN LINE!
All our bags are produced with GREEN LINE materials. We also work with recycled and organic materials, both for our caps and beanies as well as bags. We are Fairtrade licensed.
We put a lot of time in developing our cooperation with our suppliers and strive for as good conditions as possible for the workers. We also perform third-party inspections of suppliers to make sure that good morale and working conditions are maintained.