PRODUCTION
MARGELISCH has been producing leather and canvas products in India since 2009. In order to meet Swiss quality standards, Reinhard Margelisch traveled to India for an average of four months a year in the early years to implement and optimize standards and production processes.
With the production of MARGELISCH, we ensure that the employees in our production facility in India are paid fairly for the work they do.
Fair production includes fair wages for staff, a negotiated price that covers production costs and provides a long-term income. It also includes long-term production guarantees.
In production, jobs are offered for women and men.
We assure that no children are involved in the production process.
We promote economic stability in the factories in Kolkata (India) by pre-financing 65% of the production costs. This security, which we offer our producers, enables them to guarantee wage security for employees. We take full responsibility of production orders by pre-financing 100% of the production before shipment of the goods.
Through the regular, friendly exchange with our producers and their production support, we are able to directly influence production standards.
manual work
Our products are handmade, which we consider to be an important aspect in today's digital age. After all, many handicrafts and core competencies fall victim to automation and thus lose their individual character, uniqueness and authenticity. In times when the whole world is talking about digitization, we try to preserve the tried and tested with the products and to secure jobs.
The handicrafts of individual professions, regions and cultures are preserved, promoted and secured instead of being rationalized away due to automated processes (which certainly have their justification).
In the spirit of -by people for people-.
In addition to the social component, manual work also has an ecological component for us. Because production raw materials that are cut by hand make it possible on the one hand to minimize the remaining quantities and on the other hand to continue using them as a product detail or new product.
At MARGELISCH, the core work also begins by hand. At the beginning of a new design development there is a pen and a piece of paper.
We then reproduce the resulting sketches as 3-D cardboard models. These objects are processed until all lengths, widths and depths are consistent.
Based on the final object, we make cutting templates to sew the first prototype.
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Code of Conduct
The amfori BSCI Code of Conduct is based on the conventions of the International Labor Organization (ILO), the universal human rights declarations of the United Nations, the UN Global Compact and the OECD guidelines.
All amfori BSCI participants agree to the CoC and undertake to comply with it.
Mandatory goals by joining, the participants undertake to involve their suppliers in the amfori BSCI process and their progress is constantly monitored.
The suppliers of the BSCI participants, in turn, undertake to comply with the BSCI Code of Conduct and are audited accordingly. In addition, the companies are supported with training in further development.
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