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.
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Winkler und Dünnebier Süßwarenmaschinen GmbH (WDS) is about to take a significant step in its history: Rainer Runkel will be retiring from active management on 31 October 2025.
Jessica Runkel has been part of the company's management team as a managing partner since 2021. With her father now stepping down completely, she will take over sole management of the company and continue to run the family business in its third generation. She will be supported in this by her sister Vanessa Runkel and long-standing technical director Carsten Butz.
‘I have worked closely with my father over the past few years and gained enormously from his experience,’ says Jessica Runkel. ‘I am delighted to be continuing to run the company together with our very experienced team. Our focus is on securing what has been tried and tested while at the same time providing new impulses to develop WDS in a future-oriented way.’
What was once started by company founder Oswald Runkel with courage and pioneering spirit and further developed by Rainer with passion and dedication is now being continued by the next generation. Rainer Runkel will remain associated with the company in an advisory role.
WDS will remain a reliable partner for its customers in the future – characterized by quality, technological expertise and a corporate culture based on continuity, trust and family values.
We would like to express our sincere thanks to Mr. Rainer Runkel for his outstanding achievements, his vision and his significant role in the development of the company.
