H Foster 1875

Long-term partnership: BMS build and ISO 9001/14001, through environmental compliance, to EcoVadis Gold to Platinum

Client Challenge

H Foster 1875 has spent 150 years supplying fatty acids, waxes, oils and specialist chemical ingredients to formulators and producers: from engineering and medical applications to cosmetics and candle-makers.
We joined them at the start of an exciting period of change, growth and increasing market demands. They needed a management system built to keep up, then prove it, then prove it again to a much tougher audience: EcoVadis.
Environmental regulation and compliance in an ISO 14001 framework

“QFactorial rewrote our onerous and outdated ISO manual into a usable business management system. Even the complex world of environmental legislation was made easy to understand.”

Key challenges included:

Onerous, outdated ISO manual crying out for a rebuild

Making the BMS the default way of working and improving

Raising the bar from ISO 9001 to 14001 to EcoVadis Platinum

Process mapping before going paperless with the BMS in Zoho

Warehouse relocation without compliance disruption

Outcomes achieved

ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 achieved and maintained

Evolving audit programme, supporting rapid change management

EcoVadis Gold on first submission

Platinum the following year, top 1 percent

Monthly partnership support ongoing since 2019

Gosh, you shouldn’t have…

Kind words from our clients

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