Anna Scott
I am keen to improve our efficiency as a manufacturer within all our processes from development and sampling through to production lines.
At Lavenham, we are working on “being better” and educating both ourselves, our work force and our customers in how to be more sustainable, and implementing improvements throughout our supplier chain from raw material stage (with help from our suppliers) through to finishing and packaging products for consumer use. With a view to reduce waste and recycle as much as we can.
- Listing ID: 2544
- Contact: Anna Scott
- What are your aspirations and plans for the future?: The ultimate goal is to help transform Lavenham into a fully sustainable brand, with fully recyclable materials and ultimately a circular model. With synthetic materials being at the core of our business, I am not only keen to help move Lavenham to a fully recycled material base but also re-use and recycle both post-consumer, and pre-consumer waste and introduce it back into our supply chain. We think both our wadding and our core polyester fabrics are the best place to start with this.
- What types of projects are you interested in working on through Future Fashion Factory?: I am really interested in starting a project on recycling our polyester waste into new fabric and wadding for our new collections. It’s something we’ve looked at before but are struggling to get started on, so I’m really keen to talk to any other businesses or researchers who are also looking to make developments and huge improvements in how we recycled and reuse synthetic fibres in our supply chain and ultimately reduce waste that would otherwise go to landfill. We are also always really interested to hear of UK based suppliers for cottons, wools and other natural fibre textiles which we can introduce as alternatives into our range both for fabrics and wadding and have been looking into both fabrics and packaging that have biodegradable qualities. Finally, as we are so global we do produce a huge amount of samples per year. I’m always eager to hear how we can reduce this, as I’m concerned about the amount of potential waste as a result. I’d like to learn more about how both I as individual in my work and Lavenham can communicate our product and textiles in other ways to wholesale customers without relying solely on samples.
