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Tailor-Made Packaging Machines
Thomas Czioska, Head of Sales & Marketing, and Christoph Recher, Sales Manager, of LoeschPack introduce the company. Czioska says LoeschPack is especially strong in chocolate and chewing gum and tailors machines to each customer's product. Recher says LoeschPack has been in the market for more than 100 years, is located between Bamberg and Nuremberg in Upper Franconia, Germany, and has grown to well over 300 employees.
Key takeaways
- Thomas Czioska says LoeschPack is especially strong in the chocolate and chewing gum industry and makes tailor-made equipment that fits the customer's product.
- Christoph Recher says LoeschPack is located between Bamberg and Nuremberg in Upper Franconia and has grown to well over 300 employees, some working there for generations.
- Good relationships with largely local suppliers allow a very quick response to customer requests, and Thomas Czioska describes customers as partners whose feedback shapes future equipment.
Common questions
- What kind of packaging machines does LoeschPack build?
- According to Thomas Czioska of LoeschPack, the company is especially strong in the chocolate and chewing gum industry. It offers flow wrappers, distribution systems and cartoning equipment, and it listens to customers to build tailor-made equipment, taking the product and making the machine for it rather than the other way around.
- Where is LoeschPack located?
- Christoph Recher of LoeschPack says the company is located between Bamberg and Nuremberg in the southern part of Germany, in Upper Franconia. It has been in the market for more than 100 years and has grown to well over 300 employees, some of whom have worked for the company for generations.
- Why do supplier relationships matter for a packaging equipment manufacturer?
- Christoph Recher of LoeschPack says the company maintains very good relationships with its suppliers, a good part of them local, so it can react very quickly when customers want to change or require anything. Thomas Czioska adds that LoeschPack treats customers as partners and uses their feedback to optimize future equipment.
Transcript
Tom Rougeux, President, Piepenbrock Packaging
So what kind of machines does LoeschPack build?
Thomas Czioska, Head of Sales & Marketing, LoeschPack
We are very strong in making equipment in the, especially in the chocolate and chewing gum industry. It is not that we really, of course we have a flow wrapper, distribution systems, cartoning equipment like this, but we also listen to the customers itself and figure out what the needs are, and we really tailor-made equipment for customers, that it fits perfect to their product.
Tom Rougeux
So you don't just make a standard machine and the customer's product has to fit that machine?
Thomas Czioska
That's the other way around. We take the product and we make the machine for this product.
Tom Rougeux
Very well. Tell us a little bit about Loesch. Where are you located?
Who are you as a company?
Christoph Recher, Sales Manager, LoeschPack
The company Loesch is more than 100 years in the market already. We are located between Bamberg and Nuremberg in the southern part of Germany.
Tom Rougeux
That's beautiful.
Christoph Recher
Especially in Upper Franconia where we are located. Right now we have grown to well over 300 employees, and we even have employees that work for Loesch for generations now.
Tom Rougeux
So a multi-generational company?
Christoph Recher
Absolutely, you can say that. We also maintain a very good relationship to our suppliers, which are for the good part locally, so that we can also react very quick to customers who want to change anything or require anything. It gives a very quick response time.
Tom Rougeux
So you've been there a long time, you've got critical mass around you, you've worked with your key suppliers for a really long time. Those relationships are really important to making a good piece of equipment, aren't they?
Thomas Czioska
Yes, of course it is very important. We also have a really good relationship to a lot of our customers. I would say that it's not a typically OEM stuff.
It is really, we are just like friends together. We are partners, so we partner together, and we're always listening about and getting feedback from their side to optimize our equipment for the future.
Tom Rougeux
So you develop good relationships with your customer, not just a supplier OEM relationship?
Thomas Czioska
Absolutely, yes.
Tom Rougeux
Very well.
