Modern Slavery & Environment

Who we are

Artim Industries UG (haftungsbeschränkt) is a software and IT-Consulting company in Kevelaer, Germany, with a team of five. We are below the thresholds of the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 and of the German Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz, so neither obliges us to report. We publish this anyway, because clients ask and because the answer should not depend on a threshold.

Forced and child labour

We do not tolerate forced labour, bonded labour or child labour, in our own operation or at the suppliers we choose.

Our own operation carries little risk here: we employ people in Germany under German employment law, we have no manufacturing, and we do not use labour agencies or subcontracted crews.

The risk that does exist sits further down the chain, in the hardware we buy — laptops, servers, network equipment — where the extraction of raw materials and electronics assembly are known problem areas.

What we actually do about it

• We buy hardware from established European vendors rather than the cheapest source, and we keep the purchase records
• We use devices for as long as they are secure and serviceable instead of replacing them on a cycle
• We prefer repair and upgrade over replacement, and pass on working equipment rather than scrapping it
• We ask new suppliers of physical goods whether they publish a modern slavery or supply chain statement, and we keep the answer
• Anyone in the team can raise a concern about a supplier directly with the managing director, without going through anyone else

What we do not claim

We do not audit our suppliers. We have no leverage over a chip fab and we will not pretend otherwise. We have not carried out a formal risk analysis under the LkSG, because we are not subject to it.

If you need a signed supplier declaration for your own compliance process, write to us and we will fill in what we can evidence and say plainly what we cannot.

Energy and hosting

The largest part of our environmental footprint is not our office, it is the servers we run for ourselves and for clients.

We therefore host in German data centres wherever a client's requirements allow it, which keeps both the legal position and the grid mix predictable, and we select providers that run on electricity from renewable sources.

TODO(Mauritz): name the hosting provider and attach its energy documentation — the certificate, the disclosed grid mix or the PPA. Until that is on file, the sentence above must not appear in advertising: an unevidenced environmental claim is itself a legal risk under the UWG.

Efficiency as a design decision

The cheapest kilowatt-hour is the one that is never used. That is an engineering question, not a procurement one.

• We size infrastructure to the actual load instead of to a hypothetical peak, and we say so when a client asks for more than they need
• We build sites that are served as static files where they can be, which removes a running server entirely
• We do not embed third-party scripts, fonts or trackers, so a visit transfers less data — this website loads nothing from an external host
• We keep systems in service and maintained rather than rebuilding them, because a rewrite has a footprint too

The office

We work from Kevelaer and remotely. Remote work removes commutes; it also moves the energy use into people's homes rather than removing it, which is worth being honest about.

We travel to clients when it adds something and take the train where that is practical on the Lower Rhine.

Reporting a concern

If you have reason to believe that forced labour, child labour or a serious environmental breach is connected to our work or our suppliers, write to [email protected]. We will look into it and reply.

Last updated: September 2026.