Our work in Quality & Sustainability
Safety above all
You want to feel secure that your products don't contain unsafe ingredients, haven't been tested on animals, and follow laws and regulations. We keep updated on materials and chemicals to ensure that all substances have approval by relevant authorities and aren't considered potentially hazardous or are about to be phased out. When working with Paragon Nordic, you always have experts on quality, sustainability, and regulatory affairs on the team, ensuring you can sleep well at night.
For your products
When developing your products with Paragon Nordic, we help you select ingredients and packaging to obtain the highest possible performance and the lowest environmental impact. We also offer third-party labelings, like Ecolabel Good Environmental Choice, Asthma Allergy Nordic, and Nordic Swan. In addition, we conduct multiple quality controls during manufacturing to confirm that the products meet your expectations.
At our end
To ensure that the products we create are of high quality, we comply with several standards and certifications. We continuously improve operations and strive for more sustainable ways of working. This approach is part of our values, vision, and routines. The silver medal we got in EcoVadis' sustainability assessment underlines our accomplishments in this area.
The green thread
Sustainability on all levels
In the same way, as we concretize your idea into a complete product, we translate our sustainability visions into actions. We review and actively work with sustainability in all aspects of our operations: in manufacturing, during product development, and in the way we do things.
Environmental factors are one of Paragon Nordic's essential focuses. As a service company and producer, there's a range of areas where we can create impact. Our environmental efforts build on the eight UN Global Sustainable Development Goals, where we can make the most significant difference:
Overall sustainability goals
- Emissions of Greenhouse gases from our own processes are reduced by 50% between 2020 and 2030
- Active efforts toward a sustainable Supply Chain
- Rationalization of water usage in the entire manufacturing chain
- Forever Chemicals (PFAS) are phased out in all products by 2025, and active efforts toward sustainable alternatives to slowly biodegradable chemicals.
- Active efforts for sustainable innovations in both company operations and product concepts
The green thread
Sustainability on all levels
In the same way, as we concretize your idea into a complete product, we translate our sustainability visions into actions. We review and actively work with sustainability in all aspects of our operations: in manufacturing, during product development, and in the way we do things.
Environmental factors are one of Paragon Nordic's essential focuses. As a service company and producer, there's a range of areas where we can create impact. Our environmental efforts build on the eight UN Global Sustainable Development Goals, where we can make the most significant difference:
Overall sustainability goals
- Emissions of Greenhouse gases from our own processes are reduced by 50% between 2020 and 2030
- Active efforts toward a sustainable Supply Chain
- Rationalization of water usage in the entire manufacturing chain
- Forever Chemicals (PFAS) are phased out in all products by 2025, and active efforts toward sustainable alternatives to slowly biodegradable chemicals.
- Active efforts for sustainable innovations in both company operations and product concepts
Green Propellant for aerosol products
As one of the first producers in the world, we offer a propellant with a lower carbon footprint when manufacturing pressurized products, such as aerosols. Paragon Nordic's green propellant reduces the emission of CO2 by 70-90% through mass balance and thus contributes to reducing global warming. The green propellant is produced from food waste and other residual products and has been classified by the Swedish Energy Agency.
Global sustainability effort in cosmetics
Paragon Nordic is a founding member of the EcoBeautyScore Consortium, a collaborative project between companies and organizations in Cosmetics and Personal Care from around the world with the goal that consumers should have clear, transparent, and comparable information about products' sustainability and environmental impact. Among other things, we're working to develop an industry-wide assessment and scoring system for how cosmetic products affect our environment.
Read news articlePolicies and certifications
To show that quality and sustainability are more than words, we work according to management systems and certifications and are regularly reviewed by external auditors. It ensures that our products and our operations live up to the criteria. We also operate based on our own Code of Conduct - guidelines for how we continue to be ethically, socially, and environmentally sound.
ISO 9001
Paragon Nordic's management system is certified according to ISO 9001. It means that we're committed to working according to eight important principles: leadership, customer focus, process orientation, system-based approach to management, employee commitment, fact-based decisions, mutually beneficial relationships with suppliers, and, not least, continuous improvements. The certification proves our commitment to continuously improving operations to meet our customers' needs.
ISO 14001
For many years, our management system has been certified according to the environmental management standard ISO 14001. Systematic environmental work provides several advantages, such as reduced use of resources and materials, decreased waste production, increased share of renewable resources, increased ecological competence, and increased dialogue between the company and the environment. The certification is proof of our commitment to making environmentally conscious choices in our daily work in the production of high-quality products.
GMP Kosmetik / ISO 22716
GMP stands for Good Manufacturing Practice. It's a system that ensures production takes place according to established requirements and with good traceability. We're at the forefront of the expanded European requirements in the field of cosmetics and have certified ourselves according to ISO 22716, which clearly shows that we meet the legal objectives for GMP for cosmetics. We also offer our customers regulatory services such as product registration, safety assessment, and compilation of Product Information Documents, all in accordance with the new legislation from 2013.
IP Food processing
Our certification IP Livsmedel ensures that we comply with legislation and Nordic industry requirements for food-safe production.
EU Organic filling
Within Paragon Nordic, we have production facilities approved for preparing and processing food products according to the EU requirements for organic manufacturing.
