About — WAM Contracting

What we supply, and to whom

Maintenance consumables and wear parts for production plants: vacuum and process pumps, valves, seals, filtration and membranes, lubricants, coatings, electrical and instrumentation spares. Ten categories, one hundred and twenty supply lines, described on the scope of supply.

The plants are in food and beverage, pharmaceutical, cement, and grain and milling. The machines overlap more than the products do: the same vacuum pump, the same hygienic valve and the same drive appear on all four, and they wear in the same way.

The company grew out of industrial automation and spare parts distribution, which is where the working method comes from: identify the part from the nameplate, buy it through the manufacturer’s channel, and document it so the plant’s auditor can trace it.

The doctrine

Where a component is OEM-specified — valve seats, mechanical seals, membrane elements, vacuum pump vanes — we supply the manufacturer’s own part, traceable back to the maker.

Where a manufacturer has discontinued a part, we identify the successor part and say so.

Traceability to the manufacturer is a requirement of the standard your plant is audited against.

Every GFSI-benchmarked food safety standard — BRCGS, FSSC 22000, IFS, SQF — expects a supplier to be traceable back to the manufacturer, with an agreed specification and notification of any change. The pharmaceutical and cement standards ask the same question in different words.

Fact
Entity	WAM Contracting
Established	2021
Office	Magnoliastraat, 3202 BX Spijkenisse, Netherlands
Warehouse	Kerkweg, 3214 VB Zuidland, Netherlands
KvK	83816097
VAT	NL003874068B14
Sourcing	European and international OEM channels
Terms	FOB; freight arranged on request

How we work

Compliance determines whether the shipment moves.

Identification

The serial number of the unit, and a photograph of its nameplate. Together they identify the part and the version of the machine it fits.

Screening

Every end user, counterparty and bank is screened against the EU, UK, UN and US (OFAC) sanctions lists — entities and individuals — before an order is confirmed and again before the goods move. The lists are checked as they are updated; screening is part of every order.

Documentation

End-user declarations, requested where the manufacturer or export control requires one. Declarations of conformity. Full traceability. The pack your QA manager needs for the Approved Supplier List — and the auditor.

The channel

We are the European channel
for plants Europe finds hard to reach.

A plant needs a German vane, a Swedish seat kit, an American filter element and a Belgian coating, and it needs them in one consignment, cleared once, with the paperwork its auditor will ask for. That consignment is assembled in the Netherlands.

Parts are bought genuine, through the manufacturer’s own channel or an authorised distributor, and they arrive traceable to the factory that made them.

The manufacturer can be anywhere. The channel is European. That is the whole business, and it is the reason a plant a long way from the nearest OEM office can run on genuine parts.

POLICYSUPPLY

Genuine parts only.
Fully traceable.
Sourced through the
manufacturer’s channel.

Several of the most significant service intervals in a production plant are not published by the manufacturer. A maintenance plan built on an invented number is worse than one built on none, so those lines are marked as estimates and derived from the plant’s own records.

The founder

One desk, one method.

WAM Contracting is run by its founder, a Dutch entrepreneur of Arab origin, based in Rotterdam. Before establishing the company in 2021 he lived in Southeast Asia for ten and a half years and built a business there — on the buyer’s side of long-distance supply, where a consignment is judged by whether it arrives complete, cleared and on time, and a stopped line is measured in days.

Every enquiry to WAM Contracting is read at that desk, against the manufacturer’s own documentation, and answered in writing with the part, its channel, its origin and its lead time. Where nothing is published, the quotation says so.

WAM CONTRACTING · ROTTERDAM · SINCE 2021 · KVK 83816097

A consignment at the WAM Contracting warehouse

WAM Contracting.
The Dutch MRO channel for genuine OEM parts.

What we supply, and to whom

The doctrine

Compliance determines whether the shipment moves.

We are the European channel
for plants Europe finds hard to reach.

One desk, one method.

Send the serial number.

WAM Contracting.The Dutch MRO channel for genuine OEM parts.

What we supply, and to whom

The doctrine

Compliance determines whether the shipment moves.

We are the European channelfor plants Europe finds hard to reach.

One desk, one method.

Send the serial number.

WAM Contracting.
The Dutch MRO channel for genuine OEM parts.

We are the European channel
for plants Europe finds hard to reach.