The products from our tea factories are periodically tested by accredited laboratories to ensure that they conform to the minimum permitted levels of agro-chemicals, heavy metals and micro biological content. The process is also regularly evaluated to ensure its conformity to safe and hygienic parameters by way of internal and external audits. During the year our 05 processing centers namely Mahanilu,Tillicoultry,& Bambarakelly, Eildonhall & Stockholm tea processing centers being certified under ISO 22000:2018 which covers the latest trends of food safety requirements.

Neuchatel and Frocester Estates have been certified with 9001:2015 which sets out the requirement for quality management system of our rubber products. This helps to our business to be more efficient and improve customer satisfaction.

FSC takes precautions to make sure that a forest is grown ethically and sustainably. In order to keep forests flourishing in the correct manner, the FSC stands by 10 principles. Our Rubber & Forest Plantations are certified under FSC which help to decrease deforestation, environmental degradation, and social exclusion. Therefore our business model complies with the highest social and environment standards.

The Sustainability Agriculture Standard 2017, version 1.7 encompasses the effective planning and management systems, biodiversity conservation, natural resource conservation and sustainable community development by creating social and environmental standards. This will add values to the Company’s major product lines and will be capitalized particularly amongst leading buyers It promotes the best environment management practices across agricultural value chains by encouraging plantations to comply with SAS standards.

Fairtrade certification system was accredited to Stockholm Estate, Alton Estates and Frocester estate, as the benefits from this certification to the estate community has been immense; the Company continued to advocate Fair Trade policies in other estates as well.

The ISO 14064 standard published in 2006 is a part of the ISO 14000 series of International Standards for environmental management. It specifies principles and requirements at the organization level for quantification and reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It includes requirements for the design, development, management, reporting and verification of an organization’s GHG inventory. Certified by the Sri Lanka Climate Fund (SLCF), which is a private-public partnership company under the purview of the Ministry of Mahaweli Development and Environment, all direct emission sources and indirect sources have been accounted for in the GHG inventory across the eight tea estates making Horana Plantations verified under the ISO 14064 standard in 2021. One of the largest sources of our CO2 emissions is purchased electricity, thus, in order to reduce the GHG emissions associated with the estate operations, we actively reduced the grid electricity consumption by both reducing its energy demand via energy efficiency improvements and promoting renewable energy usage. Therefore we have set the following energy management targets by practicing following strategies; We continue to develop and improve our carbon management strategy and identify new opportunities for carbon reduction. Total GHG emission recorded for our Tea Plantations is 3,331 tonesCO2/year. We are planning to reduce the carbon emission drastically and our ultimate target is to carbon neutral our Tea’s by 2030.

Horana Plantations sign a pledge with executive secretary of United Nations framework convention on climate change (UNFCCC) and confirm to accelerate the transformative change needed to reach global net-Zero greenhouse gas emission by 2050 or earlier through the commitment to CNN initiative. Climate Neutral Now was launched by UN Climate Change in 2015, encouraging all stakeholders in society to implement action to achieve a climate neutral world by mid-century, as enshrined in the Paris Agreement adopted the same year. It proposes an immediate set of actions: measure, reduce and offset with trustworthy carbon credits, including those recognized under the United Nations Climate Change Convention. Committing to taking these three steps incentivizes behavioral changes within companies, organizations, individuals, whom in turn will drive the change within their industries and networks. Climate Neutral Now invites companies, organizations, governments and citizens to work towards climate neutrality by reducing their climate footprint through a 3-steps method, whereby they Measure (estimate) their greenhouse gas emissions; Reduce them as much as possible; and Compensate those which cannot currently be avoided by using UNFCCC-recognized offsets, totally or partially. By successfully complying the CNN initiatives, Horana Plantations honored with gold status for measuring and bronze status for reducing the Organizational carbon foot print. Further, we have set the targets to offset of our carbon emission and Carbon neutral our Tea’s by 2030.

All pristine tea gardens of Horana Plantations have obtained the ECO LABEL certification from the National Cleaner Production Center to become the 1st Eco Label certified tea plantations company in Sri Lanka "Ecolabelling" is a voluntary method of environmental performance certification and labelling that is practiced around the world. An ecolabel identifies products or services proven environmentally preferable overall, within a specific product or service category. Recognizing the shortfalls of the environmental labelling programmes exist in the country, National Cleaner Production Centre (NCPC), Sri Lanka worked with United Nations Environment Programme under One Planet Network Project on Consumer Information For Sustainable Consumption and Production to moved towards a broader Scale to develop and implement Eco Labelling Scheme in Sri Lanka. Accordingly, NCPC Sri Lanka has pioneered the development of a globally accepted Eco Label certification scheme under the International Standards on ISO 14024:2018 Environmental labels and declarations – Type I environmental labelling – Principles and procedures. The ECO LABEL certification is recognized globally in the following GEN countries including China, Japan, Germany , Russia, USA, New Zealand, Israel ,The European Union states

ISO 14000 is a related to Environmental Management system that aims to help organizations: It does not state requirements for environmental performance, but maps out a framework that organization can follow to set up an effective EMS. It is important to improve resource efficiency, reduce waste, and drive down costs. Using ISO 14001 can provide assurance to company management and employees as well as external stakeholders, that environmental impact is being measured and improved. Gouravilla Tea factory of Horana Plantations has accredited for ISO 14001 Certification program.

Great Place To Work Certification recognizes employers who create an outstanding employee experience. Certification is a two-step process that includes surveying your employees and completing a short questionnaire about your workforce. Because employee feedback and independent analysis determine the scores, Certification helps job seekers distinguish which companies genuinely offer a great company culture. Certification gives employers a recruiting advantage by providing a globally recognized and research-backed verification of great employee experience