Supplier requirements

Relations and follow-up

To be approved as a supplier of materials to Husqvarna, a company must comply with the requirements in the Husqvarna Code of Conduct and the Restricted Materials List, the European Union regulations REACH and RoHS. All suppliers are subjected to a quality audit where product quality, environmental and social responsibility is evaluated. Purchasers at Husqvarna are regularly trained in the Code of Conduct to keep them up to date with the values of the company and to facilitate the selection of potential suppliers.

Husqvarna carries out regular audits of suppliers' quality and environmental work. This is done partly in connection with the approval of a new supplier, both in terms of the monitoring of existing suppliers' quality and their environmental work. One of Husqvarna's practices for supplier monitoring is Acive Supplier Quality Assessment (ASQA).

As part of the continuous dialogue with suppliers and an assessment of them, a Supplier Sustainability Declaration survey was conducted in 2010 for the first time. Nearly 100 of Husqvarna's largest suppliers of material and transport responded to questions about the Husqvarna Code of Conduct and environmental requirements. The results show that the suppliers comply with the Husqvarna Code of Conduct to a large degree.