Premium quality lumber , superior product offering
By Castle Timbers
FEATURE
Castle Timber ’ s access to premium quality lumber – coupled with a highlyskilled staff component guarantees our superior product offerings . Established in 2009 , the Castle Timbers team took on the shelving market with our slogans : ‘ Your home is your castle ’, and ‘ Mad about wood ’.
Over the years our exceptional quality shelving range has become a household brand-name throughout South Africa and recently , neighbouring African countries .
With the exponential growth of e-commerce on the global market coupled with our retail website , we believe that our shelving range is soon to be a household brand name on the international market as well . From small beginnings , the Castle Timbers brand has grown extensively – with dedicated office space and machinery to allow for increased shelving product ranges to satisfy customer and market needs .
Countless homes , schools , public buildings , and private businesses have purchased and installed our high quality 100 % kiln dried SA pine shelving range .
In Nov 2019 , the Castle Timbers Shelving Brand was selected by one of our key customers , Massbuild , to manufacture and supply their Private Label ‘ SHELFMATE ’. To succeed , Castle Timbers embarked on a stringent auditing process to get in line with the Walmart requirements .
THE UNFOLDING OF THE AUDIT PROCESS
From April to Aug 2020 , Tony Tessendorf , our Key Account Manager , attended numerous Wallmart & Massbuild webinars to get more insight into the requirements necessary to get to a point of requesting an Audit by an Independent 3rd party – Partner Africa . With Covid-19 blocking the way , Tony managed to set an audit date for Oct 2020 . The Audit was done on site at Retreat and after implementation of various policy related certificates as fulfillment of the Audit findings , he received the go-ahead from Partner Africa to publish their findings on the SEDEX website .
After having diligently followed the step-by-step process of accreditation through Walmart c / o SEDEX Tony received a mail in Dec 2020 from Massbuild Head Office , congratulating and complimenting MTO for having achieved a Green rating from Walmart – stating the following :
... Dear Tony , “ I want to congratulate you for receiving a Green rating on your recent audit that was conducted ! I have never come across a South African facility that has received a Green rating on their first time round . You can be so proud of yourself and your team ”
CREDIT PLEASE
WHAT IS THE WALMART ACCREDITATION AUDIT ?
Walmart c / o Massbuild invites preferred suppliers to request accreditation through SEDEX ( Supplier Ethical Data Exchange ). SEDEX is the largest collaborative platform for sharing ethical supply chain data . SEDEX is a globally recognised innovative and effective supply chain management solution , helping to reduce risk , protect company reputations and improve supply chain practices .
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