Rairies Montrieux announces its partnership with Vandersanden

The company today announces its exclusive partnership with the international brickworks Vandersanden, headquartered in Belgium. Vandersanden, the largest family-owned brickworks in Europe, produces facing bricks, clay pavers for gardens and roads, ECO-facing slips and insulating facade solutions.

The primary objective of this partnership is to best respond to Rairies Montrieux's customers, by offering a range of hand-molded products.

This partnership will complete their entire offer and will be effective from November 2023, XNUMX.

For Rémy Montrieux, current CEO of the company: “Our product offering is today very comprehensive in terms of textures, shapes and colors. However, we were missing products made in Northern Europe, hand-molded bricks and wafers. Our customers are very demanding of this type of product. So, to better meet their demand, we chose a product from one of the largest factories in Europe. The hand-molded market is very buoyant, and it is different from that of decorative facades. »

This partnership will provide Rairies Montrieux with better visibility on the terracotta market. Indeed, thanks to this new typology of products, the company will be able to reach many more players in the sector.

The Vandersanden company is the largest family brickworks in Europe, and has a very good brand image.

Also, Rairies Montrieux is today a major player in the building market. Thus, this new reference confirms the solid reputation of the company and brings it additional notoriety.

Another important aspect of this partnership: commercial and technical exchange. Indeed, Rairies Montrieux evolves every year in its field. In fact, its collaboration with an actor who shares the same family values ​​will allow the company to structure itself by drawing inspiration from its partner on a daily basis.

For Marco Solberg, Export Director – Vandersanden: “The cooperation with Rairies Montrieux is a new step in our growth on the French market, and strengthens our long-term strategy. The family values ​​shared by both companies guarantee first-rate service, which allows us to be even closer to our customers. Both are synonymous with personalized contact and tailor-made advice, which allows us to help prescribers and professionals in a targeted and effective manner. »

The two companies expect this partnership to lead to mutual development on the French market.

The Maine-et-Loire company is a very established player in this market. As a result, it represents an ideal partner for Vandersanden in order to increase its influence and its integration on the French market.

As for the Angevin company, working and evolving alongside a structure of this scale will allow the company to take a structural and productive step forward.

Hand-molded brick

The hand-molded facing brick has a rough, ribbed surface.

It is timeless and full of character.

The name of this facing brick betrays the way it was once made: by hand. A craftsman rolled a ball of clay into a layer of sand.

He then projected the shortbread ball into a mold. Then he removed the excess clay, turned the mold over and extracted the unfired brick.

The projection of the sandblasted ball gives the hand-molded brick its typical structure.

Today, machines do most of the work and the production process for hand-cast facing bricks has speeded up considerably.