Sustainability

Made well, kept long.

The most sustainable hardware is the hardware that lasts. Everything else follows from that.

Brass is one of the few materials that gets better with use. A polished knob settles into amber. A hammered backplate gathers fingerprints into a record of the kitchen it serves. Nothing rusts. Nothing chips. Nothing peels. The piece you fit in 2026 will still be on the cabinet in 2126, on whichever door your great-grandchild has built around it.

This is the long way to think about sustainability — buy once, keep forever. The hardware industry’s average product life is around twelve years. Ours is measured in centuries.

Material

Solid brass — seventy parts copper, thirty parts zinc, single pour, no plating. Brass is one of the most recycled metals on earth. Every Winfield & Turner piece is cast from a feedstock that is more than 80% recycled brass, sourced from UK foundries. Off-cuts and turnings return to the same supply chain.

Workshop

A single workshop in Birmingham. Hand-finishing is done with cotton cloths, natural wax, and water. We do not plate. We lacquer only where Satin Brass is specified, and then only with low-VOC clear coatings.

Packaging

Unbleached natural tissue. Recycled cream paper boxes printed in soy ink. Twine, not plastic. Sized to ship by Royal Mail where possible — smaller carbon load per piece than next-day courier.

What we will not say

We will not call ourselves carbon neutral. We are not. We will not promise to be by a particular year. We do not know if we will be. What we will tell you is that a Winfield & Turner knob, properly fitted and properly cared for, will outlive every CSR claim made in the year it was cast.