Cosmetics agency Lush has made a serious funding in its in-house printing functionality, together with new package 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, advised 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 serious step up in functionality.
“It’s been an intensive challenge discovering the correct individuals to work with and the proper tech for our challenge,” he defined.
“We spent per week with Inkcups figuring out the kinks with a transparent plan of scalability.”
The full quantity of the funding concerned was not disclosed, and the enterprise is protecting particulars of its plans for the brand new package below wraps in the interim.
Lush’s company objectives embrace turning into “carbon optimistic by way of insetting fairly than by offsetting our excesses”.
The enterprise goals to develop into zero waste by way of 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 outlets worldwide.