Pricey Inexperienced Espresso Roasters Founder Lisa Lawson pushing the corporate’s 25-kilo Probat machine into the brand new roastery. All pictures courtesy of Pricey Inexperienced.

Pricey Inexperienced Espresso Roasters, the 2025 Micro Roaster of the 12 months, has gotten considerably much less micro with the opening of a brand new 13,500-square-foot manufacturing headquarters in its residence metropolis of Glasgow, Scotland.

In a refurbished Nineteen Forties warehouse on Brook Road in Bridgeton, the brand new facility quintuples the roasting firm’s capability whereas accommodating an anticipated 30% gross sales bounce this yr.

Pricey Inexperienced was the primary European roastery to win Roast journal’s Roaster of the 12 months award, which honors roasters that pair top quality with sturdy sustainability, schooling and neighborhood commitments.

Lisa Lawson, who based Pricey Inexperienced in 2011 and has since grown it to 10 staff, stated the growth will enable for extra espresso quantity whereas extending the licensed B Corp’s efforts to achieve net-zero carbon emissions.

Lisa Lawson.

“This transfer proves {that a} small, values-driven enterprise can develop and nonetheless maintain onto its excessive requirements in espresso roasting, buyer focus and goal,” Lawson stated in an announcement shared with DCN. “It lastly offers us the house to additional put money into our espresso program and to behave on the sustainability objectives we’ve had for years — from renewable power and waste discount to opening our doorways wider to the neighborhood that’s supported us from day one.”

Along with roasting and packing, the brand new roastery headquarters contains devoted coaching, cupping and occasion areas.

Positioned in a former textile manufacturing facility space rejuvenated by artist studios, workshops and different artistic companies, the roastery additionally affords a click-and-collect service for customers searching for freshly roasted espresso to go.

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