Modern Slavery Statement of Marmon Group Limited
The Marmon Group Limited is committed to continually improving our practices to combat slavery
and human trafficking. The Marmon Group Limited is a subsidiary of Marmon Holdings, Inc., which is
a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Marmon Holdings, Inc is a global industrial organization
comprising more than 100 autonomous manufacturing, leasing, and service businesses.
Each Marmon business operates independently within a group structure that provides access to the
expertise of other businesses with related products and services or which serve the same customers
or markets. These groups include:
- Crane Services
- Electrical
- Foodservice Technologies
- Industrial Products
- Medical
- Metal Services
- Plumbing & Refrigeration
- Rail & Leasing
- Retail Solutions
- Transportation Products
- Water Technologies
Marmon businesses operate more than 600 manufacturing, distribution, leasing, and service
facilities, and employ more than 28,000 people worldwide.
Berkshire provides guidance to subsidiaries on their modern slavery compliance programs and
subsidiaries implement their programs independently, in a manner that is best suited to their specific
industry and circumstances, but within guidelines provided by Berkshire.
We expect our suppliers to respond to our modern slavery inquiries in a timely manner and provide
us with required information on the source and use of conflict minerals in the products supplied to
us.
As part of our modern slavery efforts, we engage relevant suppliers in our global supply chain,
conduct due diligence activities by leveraging the Organization of Economic Co-operation and
Development Due Diligence Framework. The Marmon Group Limited is committed to ongoing
improvement of our responsible sourcing efforts and the traceability of our global supply chains.
Marmon Holdings, Inc. is a large decentralized industrial organization. It has a professional office to
assist business unit management with modern slavery and global supply chain analysis. Corporate
staff provide counsel and support in areas including finance, legal, human resources, innovation, and
continuous improvement.
The Marmon Group Limited in the UK is organised into 6 trading divisions and 4 subsidiaries:
Trading Divisions
- Cerro EMS — producer of non-ferrous forgings and machined components, and drain testing
equipment and telecom rods. - Future Metals- leading supplier of aerospace quality metals and other materials to the global
aircraft manufacturing and maintenance industry. - Eden UK — Design manufacture and installation of store fixtures, displays and POS.
- Ecowater – Suppliers of water softener technology.
- Fontaine Fifth Wheel Europe — Specialists in Truck and Trailer coupling.
- Artform Creative
UK Subsidiaries
CCPI Europe Limited – Thermocouple Manufacturer - 2K Polymer Systems Limited
- TBS Engineering Limited
- Cerro Precision Limited
Overseas Subsidiaries
Sloane Poland – Project Management and Installers of retail fixtures - Sisu Axles- independent axle manufacturer for heavy duty truck, military, container handling
and industrial applications.
Suppliers
We have engaged directly with both our current and new suppliers in respect of our anti-slavery
policy in order to gain a proper understanding of the measures they have in place within their own
business and supply chain, inclusive of full and detailed site audits, where appropriate.
We have reviewed all procurement policies and procedures and undertaken a full audit into our safe
working practices within our supply chains.
We will continue to monitor our suppliers’ duties and activities to effectively assess our supply chains
whilst recognising that collaborative working remains vital to effectively mitigate issues and
implement positive change where needed.
Our contractual documentation continues to incorporate specific prohibition against slavery or
servitude, the use of forced, compulsory or trafficked labour and child labour in line with our policy
and we stipulate that our contracted suppliers must hold their own suppliers to the same standards.
We widely issue both our statement of intent and policy prior to new contracts being established to
make our expectations perfectly clear.
Our policies on slavery and human trafficking
We are committed to ensuring that there is no modern slavery or human trafficking in our supply
chains or in any part of our business. Our Anti-slavery Policy reflects our commitment to acting
ethically and with integrity in all our business relationships and to implementing and enforcing
effective systems and controls to ensure slavery and human trafficking is not taking place anywhere
in our supply chains.
We have in place systems to:
- Identify and assess potential risk areas in our supply chains.
- Mitigate the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring in our supply chains.
- Monitor potential risk areas in our supply chains.
- Protect whistle blowers.
Supplier adherence to our values and ethics
We have zero tolerance to slavery and human trafficking. To ensure all those in our supply chain and
contractors comply with our values we have in place a rigorous supply chain compliance programme.
We reserve the right to terminate any contractual arrangement if there is a breach of our anti-slavery
policy. We expect all suppliers to familiarise themselves with our policy and to act with due diligence
and integrity at all times in a way that is consistent with its values.
Training
To ensure a high level of understanding of the risks of modern slavery and human trafficking in our
supply chains and our business, we provide training to our staff. We also require our business
partners to provide training to their staff and suppliers and providers.
Following a review of the effectiveness of the steps we have taken this year to ensure that there is no
slavery or human trafficking in our supply chains we intend to continue monitoring our supply chain
closely to ensure strict adherence to our policies and ensure that training for all staff is prioritised
and undertaken.
Further Steps
In order to remain vigilant in combatting modern slavery and human trafficking, in 2023, we have
taken steps to enhance the due diligence carried out on the engagement of suppliers.