Cosmetics agency Lush has made a significant funding in its in-house printing functionality, together with new equipment from Inkcups and Roland DG.
The Poole-headquartered enterprise makes handmade, vegetarian cosmetics and social duty is a key focus of its operations.
Over the previous week a Roland DG large-format UV printer has arrived at its manufacturing facility, alongside an Inkcups X5 flatbed printer and Inkcups Helix One benchtop printer for printing onto cylindrical objects.
Simon Allen, senior R&D inventive assist on the agency, informed Printweek that the enterprise had at all times had some in-house capability for large-format and DTG printing, however the “vital” new funding marked a significant step up in functionality.
“It’s been an in depth venture discovering the appropriate folks to work with and the proper tech for our venture,” he defined.
“We spent every week with Inkcups understanding the kinks with a transparent plan of scalability.”
The overall quantity of the funding concerned was not disclosed, and the enterprise is preserving particulars of its plans for the brand new equipment beneath wraps in the interim.
Lush’s company objectives embrace changing into “carbon constructive by insetting reasonably than by offsetting our excesses”.
The enterprise goals to grow to be zero waste by its ‘Carry it Again’ deposit schemes globally that “deal with packaging like gold”. It additionally arrange a Inexperienced Hub operation to recycle and reuse the supplies it makes use of.
The group’s turnover in 2022, together with licensing, joint ventures and franchises, was £836m and it had almost 900 retailers worldwide.