The Importance of Local Manufacturing

This is a sponsored article from SustainabilityTracker.com member Sleep Corp.

At Sleep Corp, we take immense pride in being an Australian-made company.

Our dedication to local manufacturing ensures the highest quality in our market-leading mattress protectors, allowing us to confidently provide a 10-year mattress replacement warranty. This reflects the unparalleled reliability of our craftsmanship. 

Our Mattress Replacement Guarantee allows our customers to enjoy the peace of mind of knowing that their new mattress is protected from spills and stains if purchased at the same time as our mattress protector.

Local manufacturing brings numerous benefits that help us sustain and grow our business while contributing positively to the community and environment.

Why Local Manufacturing?

1. Supply Chain Resilience

As we have all experienced recently, global events can significantly disrupt supply chains overnight, whether it be global pandemics, natural disasters, or international affairs. By producing products locally, we ensure our supply chain can remain resilient in the face of these issues, which are often out of our control. 

Shortening the supply chain and producing our products locally protects us from potential delivery disruptions and allows us to keep our lead times low. This guarantees that our customers can receive their orders promptly and reduces the environmental impact of importing products by boat, which causes high amounts of greenhouse gas emissions.

2. Local jobs

Local manufacturing also creates jobs and employment opportunities within our community. As we look to expand exporting our highly regarded Australian-made products, we hope to generate additional work, fostering local economic growth.

When we moved to our new facility, we rapidly grew production, adopting new machinery and automation. But by undertaking these rapid upgrades, we brought our current team along on a journey of building new skills to work on this new machinery and embracing the change in how we work moving forward.

3. Flexibility

One significant advantage of localised production is the ability to respond rapidly to changing market demands and customer needs. Adapting to changes swiftly allows us to meet our customers’ expectations without delays consistently.

4. High Standards/Consistency

By manufacturing our products locally, Sleep Corp maintains stringent quality control measures, ensuring that every item meets our high standards. This consistency is crucial in enabling us to offer our unrivalled mattress replacement warranty with our mattress protectors.

5. Sustainability and Environmental Impact

Building our local manufacturing plant enabled us to implement sustainable practices and exert greater control over our environmental impact. Equipped with solar panels, our plant significantly reduces our carbon footprint and promotes the use of renewable energy. We’ve embraced advanced technologies like Automated Mobile Robots (AMR) for paperless pick and pack processes, and we use eco-conscious, compostable mailers. Additionally, our facilities feature electric forklifts, all aimed at minimizing our environmental impact.

At Sleep Corp, our dedication to local manufacturing is a cornerstone of our business strategy. It allows us to increase our focus on sustainability while offering incredible flexibility and enabling us to deliver high-quality, luxurious bedding products that our customers can sleep peacefully on.  

This is an article from a SustainabilityTracker.com Member. The views and opinions we express here don’t necessarily reflect our organisation