21 January 2022

Laurens Moens, sales manager at Moens Packaging

Interview of Laurens Moens
Sales manager at Moens Packaging

1. Can you introduce yourself and the business of your company?

I’m from Moens Packaging, we are distributors in Belgium for all types of packaging materials. I’m Laurens Moens and I am the sales manager for all small packaging materials, so everything that is less than 30 Litres. In this range of packaging, we also sell the Tournaire range of aluminium bottles and coex bottles to our customers who are situated in Belgium and in the Netherlands.

2. How important is Tournaire to your activity?

Tournaire, for us, is a very important partner because of their range of aluminium and coex bottles. Actually, they are a lot of opportunities for our customers to access a quality product and quality materials.

3. What is the profile of your current customers?

Our customer profile is wide because it’s going from a small one-person company to big multinationals. All types of industry from food to chemicals and paint customers. We use a complete range of packaging from the very small bottle to the big 30 Litres aluminium canisters, through the whole range of packaging materials and sectors.

4. How is the packaging market evolving in your territory and especially packaging made of aluminium?

We see that customers looking more and more to have a very quality product and a quality material because like that they make sure that their customers will receive the goods correctly and they got nice tastes and that’s why we see a lot of opportunity for aluminium Tournaire products.

5. Are the regulations in your territory different, are they evolving, more demanding, in which field?

The regulations are becoming more and more strict and because of this, we have to act more and more sooner to find a great solution for our customers.

6. What are the recent evolutions in terms of environmental constraints in packaging?

We see that a lot of our customers have questions about what is possible for aluminium and coex bottles regarding the environment and we are looking together with them to find solutions.