Walter Würfel becomes new Director of Sales and Marketing at Rondo AG.

Walter Würfel is taking up the position of Director Sales and Marketing at Rondo AG, Allschwil / Switzerland, a leading manufacturer of pharmaceutical secondary packaging, on July 1st, 2018.

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Jul 18th, 2018

Walter Würfel is taking up the position of Director Sales and Marketing at Rondo AG, Allschwil / Switzerland, a leading manufacturer of pharmaceutical secondary packaging, on July 1^st, 2018. Würfel has extensive experience and held various executive positions in pharmaceutical secondary packaging over the past 12 years. His new assignment aims to further grow the expanding business of Rondo AG in Europe. In addition, there will be close cooperation with Rondo-Pak in the US and the sister companies of Körber Medipak Systems. Rondo AG, with production sites in Switzerland, the Czech Republic, the USA and Puerto Rico specializes in the development and production of innovative and high-quality packaging solutions for the pharmaceutical industry. Rondo is part of Medipak Systems, the business unit Pharma Systems of the international technology group Körber.

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