Environment, quality and
work environment

​​​​​​Delsbo Candle is highly engaged in environmental matters. In 2008, in cooperation with the Nordic Ecolabel, we created the first ecolabelled candles in the world. See criteria here. This was a very educative process where we understood the width of the problem with palm oil. The experts at Nordic Ecolabel explained to us that the certification available for palm oil (RSPO) is not watertight since there are large sums of money involved in the business. The work for sustainable palm oil is developing, but at Delsbo Candle we are still not convinced that it is possible to fully guarantee the origin of the palm oil. Since we defend the rainforest and its inhabitants we, in cooperation with our stearic acid supplier AAK (Aarhus Karlshamn), choose to only use fat from slaughterhouse waste as raw material for the stearin that we use in our candles. 

The candles consist almost fully of stearin, which is a socalled renewable material, but due to technical reasons we still need to use a small amount of paraffin to our pigmented candles. We are actively working for a paraffin free solution though. 

At Delsbo Candle we have a long tradition of staff influence. For instance, the staff place their own work schedule. Already in the 1980´s we paid attention to the equality issue when we systematically removed the fact that men handled our machines and the women did the packaging of candles. Since then, anybody - regardless of gender - perform all tasks in our production. This may be obvious today but at that time it was quite revolutionary. At Delsbo Candle all employees have responsibility as well as authority to make decisions in the operations.