Dura was first registered in 1997 by our Managing Director, Dominic Wishlade. Dura is a privately owned business that started out in a small building in Chacombe, Oxfordshire. The company has expanded over the years to the large modern premises that we currently now occupy.

Dura is Europe’s market leader; we are extremely proud of our British Heritage. All our manufacturing is carried out at our factory in Plymouth.

The company has three divisions, comprising of residential, automotive, and commercial. Our products are installed into some of the country’s finest homes and into the workshops of some of the leading automotive companies. We also export our products all over the world.

Modern slavery is a crime and a violation of fundamental human rights. It takes various forms, such as slavery, servitude, forced and compulsory labour and human trafficking, all of which have in common the deprivation of a person’s liberty by another in order to exploit them for personal or commercial gain. Dura have a zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery and Dura are committed to acting ethically and with integrity in all business dealings and relationships and to implementing and enforcing effective systems and controls to ensure modern slavery is not taking place anywhere in the business or in any of our supply chains.

Dura are also committed to ensuring there is transparency in our own business and in our approach to tackling modern slavery throughout our supply chains, consistent with our disclosure obligations under the Modern Slavery Act 2015. Dura expects the same high standards from all of our contractors, suppliers and other business partners, and as part of our contracting processes, Dura include specific prohibitions against the use of forced, compulsory or trafficked labour, or anyone held in slavery or servitude, whether adults or children, and Dura expect that our suppliers will hold their own suppliers to the same high standards.

Our policy applies to all persons working for us or on our behalf in any capacity, including employees at all levels, directors, officers, agency workers, seconded workers, volunteers, interns, agents, contractors, external consultants, third-party representatives and business partners.

Management at all levels are responsible for ensuring those reporting to them understand and comply with our policy and are given adequate and regular training on it and the issue of modern slavery in supply chains.

Our Anti-Slavery, Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking policy sets out our zero-tolerance stance on modern slavery and human trafficking and provides guidance to our employees on identifying and reporting instances.

Our Whistleblowing policy provides information and encouragement to our employees so that concerns can be raised about how colleagues are being treated, or practices within our business or supply chain, without fear of reprisals.

In general, the Organisation considers its exposure to slavery/human trafficking to be relatively limited. Nonetheless, it has taken steps to ensure that such practices do not take place in its business nor the business of any organisation that supplies goods and/or services to it.