Sustainability at Colart
Our 2025/26 Impact Report is now live
This year’s report reflects real progress across our business—from stronger performance and innovation to meaningful steps in sustainability and culture. It brings to life how our Creating Impact strategy continues to shape the way we create value, support artists and reduce our environmental footprint.
A Certified B Corporation™
Our B Corp certification proves our commitment to people and the planet. We’re proud to meet the highest standards of social and environmental responsibility, fostering a thriving workplace, minimising environmental impact, and serving our community with integrity.
Creating Impact is how we do sustainability at Colart.
It brings together everything we do to create positive change for artists, communities and our planet — through our products, our people and our operations.
Our approach
- Creating Value – delivering lasting value for society, our customers and creative communities.
- Creating Sustainable Culture – empowering our people to embed sustainability in everything they do.
- Creating Circularity – designing products and processes that reduce impact and move towards a circular future.
ACCREDITATIONS AND AWARDS
Our historic British brand Winsor & Newton has held a Royal Warrant since 1841. A Royal Warrant of Appointment is a mark of recognition of those who have supplied goods or services to the Households of HM The Queen, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh or HRH The Prince of Wales for at least five years, and who have an ongoing trading arrangement. Warrant holders are required to demonstrate that they have an appropriate environmental and sustainability policy and action plan.
- Le Mans: ISO14001 Environmental Management & ISO9001 Quality Management systems
- Tianjin: ISO14001 Environmental Management & ISO9001 Quality Management systems
- Minehead: ISO27716 Cosmetics Goods Manufacturing Processes
- Lowestoft: ISO9001 Quality Management System
PARTNERS AND MEMBERSHIPS
We are currently partnering with Forum for the Future - an independent, international non-profit with a 20-year track record of driving sustainable development and a unique set of capabilities, relationships and experience. Together we are working to accelerate our shift to a sustainable future by transforming whole systems.
We are members of CEPE - the European Council of the Paint, Printing Ink and Artists' Colours Industry. CEPE started its sustainability work in 2010 and published a Sustainability Charter in September 2012. The charter describes the policy the Industry will follow in the coming years, encouraging CEPE members to look at the full Life Cycle of their products while keeping in mind the three pillars of sustainability: People, Planet and Profit.
In the USA we are members of The Art and Creative Materials Institute, Inc. (ACMI), an international association of about 200 art, craft and creative material manufacturers which seeks to promote safety in art and creative products through its certification program.
MODERN SLAVERY ACT
Modern slavery encompasses slavery, servitude, human trafficking and forced labour. Colart has a zero-tolerance approach to any form of modern slavery. We are committed to acting ethically and with integrity and transparency in all business dealings and to putting effective systems and controls in place to safeguard against any form of modern slavery taking place within the business or our supply chain.
