With the right manufacturing plants it is possible to make the widest variety of products from chocolate. WDS Plants enable you to produce an almost infinite combination of shapes, fillings and colours. Thereby you can always react to the challenging market and offer the products which are expected by trade and consumers.
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Confectionery of gum and jelly is very popular with the consumers. With the WDS plants there is hardly any limit in the manufacture of attractive products. Combine exceptional shapes with the widest variety of colour and filling possibilities and produce confectionery that stands out on the markets.
Hard candies are not only expected to taste good but also have to be attractive in shape and colour with sophisticated fillings. With the WDS Manufacturing plants you are able to create attractive products and you will always meet the taste of consumers – worldwide.
Confectionery products made of fondant and toffee are not only expected to taste good but also have to be attractive in shape and colour with sophisticated fillings. With the WDS Manufacturing plants you are able to create attractive products and you will always meet the taste of consumers – worldwide.
OTC sweets are innovative products with health-promoting and biologically effective properties due to the addition of different ingredients.
Maximum confectionery production through WDS LifeCycleCare. You too can benefit from the unbeatable potential of WDS Service.
Cross-manufacturer platform for the central monitoring and optimisation of the complete production
With the founding of WDS America in 2022, Winkler und Dünnebier Süßwarenmaschinen as one of the leading international manufactureres of confectionery machines finally has a domestic presence in North America and Canada. Our claim is nothing less than listening to your pain needs and desires as well as consulting and choosing the right technologies for your confectionery process.
WDS is the only machinery manufacturer in the confectionery industry who provides molding plants for jellies and chocolates for decades. This unique characteristic led to the organizational structure of WDS America: Dedicated teams for the chocolate and the jelly market provide extraordinary expertise for their sectors.
From lab to productional scale - YOU decide! WDS America serves all capacitiy sizes and individual project realization for your confectionery project. Choose from our various services: Innovative lab equipment that enables product development, state of the art depositing processes or a modern generation of molding plants, machine upgrades, depositor retrofits, new lines or turnkey greenfield installation.
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At WDS, proven systems are reconfigured to meet your indivdual needs to produce your products at the best possible quality. Altough some product look like another one, each product comes with individual changes. This is where your journey with WDS starts!
Consulting you means thinking beyond the classical equipment. This means discussing your expectations in advance before cutting the first metall piece: Because even change-over, operation and maintenance needs are not the same at every customer. Outcome of our consultation are often based on our modular machine portfolio: From lab via pilot to commercial scale. However, it could also result in a custom-made solution.
Listen, understand and choose the right way together with you - that´s our strength at WDS America! Based on your product idea we work with you to develop the right confectionery line. We respond to your individual needs and adapt the plant to them.
Lab Equipment enables product and recipe develompent, scalable proof of concept and low capacity confectionery production.
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WDS Pilot Lines are especially designed for emerging confectionery businesses. Increase your production capacities in the range from 150 kg/h up to 900 kg/h and automate your production processes with choosing from the 3 stages of extension.
Check WDS solutions for Pilot Scale Lines for Chocolate and Jellies.
Commercial Lines from WDS fit when you are looking for large production capacities up to 5t/h, your recipes are prooven and you desire a high level of automation.
Which machine concept suits your product needs will be checked idividually. Maybe it´s a ConfecPRO, a Mogul plant or our innovative ConfecVARIO?
For more than 100 years, at WDS chocolate molding know how merge with modern engineering technologies.
WDS America is proud to introduce the dedicated team for all questions and inquiries from chocolate technologies.
Bernd Weber
Bernd is your domestic primary contact for all inquiries from North American and Canadian chocolate businesses.
The dedicated team for all your jelly topics - regardless if the question is from starch or starchless molding technologies.
Jim Nicketta
Jim is the domestic primary contact for all inquiries from North American and Canadian jelly businesses.
André Weins
For years, André Weins is known in the American market as WDS´ Area Sales Manager exclusively for USA, Canada and UK.
We exclusively listen to the pain points of our customers and support you trough qualified
Jelly Excellence Team (JET), that´s an alliance between Winkler und Dünnebier Süßwarenmaschinen, Hänsel Processing and Pinco SA. Three well known specialized companies in the confectionery industry combine their extensive knowledge of cooking, depositing, molding and drying of jellies to deliver the best positive experience in confectionery production and provide tailored turnkey solutions for jelly processes. Thanks to our strong team we realize your jelly process with various interfaces from the first idea, to the finished producing line and stay at your side as your partner for all service support matters.
