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A A Year on the Land

We take trees. This is the accounting.

Every year we turn plantation timber into furniture, and every year we count what it cost. This is that count — the trees, the air in the workshop, the offcuts, the eight hundred pairs of hands, and the power that runs the saws.

100
%
Plantation & VRIKSH-verified timber
ZERO
 to landfill
Sawdust, scrap, shaving, all returned
800
+ hands
And the families behind them
50
 MW
Renewable capacity, on the books
I The Forest

Every plank can name
the field it grew in.

We do not cut from native forest, and have not since the second generation wrote it into the order book. Every board comes from a managed plantation, a VRIKSH-verified legal-origin line, or a salvage source we can name on paper.

  • A
    Plantation timber, all four species. Sheesham, acacia, mango and farmed teak, from co-operative growers within 600 km on 10–25 year rotations.
  • B
    VRIKSH legality certificate. India’s timber legality standard, issued by EPCH and documented per shipment.
  • C
    Reclaimed & salvage timber. Old beams, railway sleepers and river-pier timbers, kiln-redried and returned to use.
  • D
    Zero rainforest, ever. No tropical hardwood of uncertain origin, no CITES-listed species. We will lose an order before we lose this rule.
12,000+
Saplings planted with grower co-ops, last 36 months
0
Cubic metres from native or rainforest sources
600 km
Maximum sourcing radius — keeps the carbon close
II The Air

A floor where you can smell
the wood, not the chemistry.

The cheapest way to finish furniture is the worst way to breathe, so we don’t run that line. Every booth is plumbed for water-based, low-VOC finish and ducted through fabric-bag filtration.

  • Water-based finishes, default. Low-VOC, EU-grade water-borne lacquers and oils. Solvent-based only on request.
  • Fabric-bag dust capture. Five-micron bag filtration on every machine. Sawdust drops to silos, not lungs.
  • Negative-pressure spray rooms. Negative pressure, three-stage filtration. No overspray reaches the next bench.
  • Annual particulate audit. Independently measured and available on request.
III The Loop

Every sliver of the log
finds a second seat.

A log is roughly half furniture and half offcut. Every shaving, offcut and chip has a destination written against it on the daily floor sheet.

IV The Hands

Furniture is a person
the buyer never meets.

Eight hundred people make every order possible. Beyond the SEDEX SMETA four-pillar audit sit a set of plain commitments the family has kept since the first generation.

  • A living wage, not a legal one. Floor-rate 18% above the Rajasthan statutory minimum, reviewed each year.
  • First aid, on every shift. An on-site first-aid room and an emergency medical ward, with a trained first-aider on duty each shift.
  • A drinking-water plant, on the floor. Reverse-osmosis drinking water at every shift station, free, all year.
  • A canteen, hundred seats. Workers bring their own food; the hall, the shade and the water are ours to provide.
  • Eighteen, and verified. No child labour. Minimum working age is eighteen, checked at hiring and on audit.
  • Children's schooling, paid. Tuition, uniforms and books to Class XII. ~140 children this year.
  • An apprentice line. Twenty-four joiners a year, two-year paid apprenticeship under named masters.
  • Women on the floor & in the office. ~28 women supervisors and section heads, in finishing and the design studio.
  • Fire cover, assessed against NBC 2016. 76 extinguishers, 13 hose reels, 6 yard hydrants, 280 sprinkler heads, and a 3,00,000 litre underground reserve — twice the norm for this building.
  • Audited, on schedule. SEDEX SMETA 4-Pillar on rotation; corrective actions closed and on file.
800+
Direct artisan employees
140
Children in the school programme
0
Lost-time accidents · trailing twelve months
V The Sun’s Work

Fifty megawatts of quiet,
running every saw in the house.

A fifty-megawatt solar field in the Bikaner desert has, since commissioning, returned more to the grid than the manufactory has ever drawn.

The arithmetic is easy to verify: 50 MW installed, about 8.3 sun-hours a day across the Thar, roughly 78 GWh a year. The manufactory draws a fraction of that.

  • 78 GWh / year Typical generation, against ~12 GWh drawn
  • 62,000 tonnes CO₂ / year Avoided versus a coal-grid baseline
  • 6.5× net-positive More generated than the plant ever consumes
  • 0 diesel hours No back-up generators on a normal week
DAILY GENERATION · TYPICAL APRIL DAY kW × 1000
04 h 06 09 12 15 18 20 h
Peak ~46 MW · Sustained ~5 h above 30 MW · Off-grid before sunset
VI The Year’s Ledger

A balance sheet,
written in weather.

The year’s reckoning, kept the way our grandfather kept his books — debits left, credits right, a closing balance at the bottom. The currency is CO₂ and water.

FY 2024–25 · ENVIRONMENTAL LEDGER SARDARSHAHAR · UNIT I & II
DEBITS (footprint we created)
  • Manufacturing energy drawn~12 GWh
  • Diesel for transport (own fleet)~610 kL
  • Embodied CO₂ in inputs (est.)~3,400 t
  • Sea freight emissions (Scope 3)~5,800 t
SUBTOTAL · CO₂e ≈ 11,300 t
CREDITS (returned to the books)
  • Solar energy exported to grid~66 GWh
  • CO₂ avoided · solar generation~62,000 t
  • Carbon stored in shipped product~9,400 t
  • Groundwater returned · recharge stationon site
  • Saplings raised with co-ops~12,000
SUBTOTAL · CO₂e ≈ 71,400 t
CLOSING BALANCE net to the atmosphere
−60,100 t CO₂e net-positive · the year balanced six times over
SIGNED · Madhu Sudan Saraf POSTED · 31 MARCH 2025 METHOD · GHG PROTOCOL · DRAFT

Management estimates, posted in good faith and not yet independently assured. Third-party assurance against the GHG Protocol and SEDEX SMETA is in preparation for the FY 2024–25 report.

08 · A Promise

We measure the year
so the year answers back.

Sustainability here is not a department but a habit. Specifiers, brand partners and procurement teams are welcome to walk the floor and audit the books.

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Address
Plot No. 4,5,6,7,8,9 RIICO Industrial Area,
Sardarshahar – 331 403, Rajasthan, India
Email
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