Warehouse racking and automation installation · The Nordics and all of Europe

Installation · Service · Warehouse automation

We install warehouse systems. Across the Nordics.

Racking, mezzanines and warehouse automation – installed by our own crews, to your drawings and your schedule.

High-bay racking hall with a lift under the roof, Norway
Unil, Norway · 34 m · winter 2022/2023

Systems we install

  • AutoStore
  • Vanderlande ADAPTO
  • Multishuttle
  • Miniload
  • Atlas 2D stacker cranes
  • Pallet racking
  • Mezzanines

In the industry since

2016

Installations*

300+

Jobs in total

≈1,500

Largest team project**

186,000 h

On one site

up to 60

* Crew on site for more than two weeks; short service jobs are not counted. ** The largest site our installers have worked on. WDW continues a family installation business.

What we install

Installation types we build

Click a type to see how it works, where it fits and where we have installed it.

Dismantling and disposal

We also take down what has to go

We dismantle every type of racking. We move it and rebuild it somewhere else, or dispose of it. We strip out machines, fittings, cold stores and freezer rooms – and hand back an empty, clean hall.

WDW installers working on a racking structure

For integrators

You deliver the system. We install it.

We work to your drawings, procedures and schedule – as an extension of your own team. The same crew from project to project.

Stacker crane aisle in a high-bay warehouse

For main contractors

One contact for the whole warehouse.

Racking, mezzanines, automation hook-up, welding and adaptations from one team. One contact person and a daily report.

Projects

Built on sites across Europe

From Norway to France. Every number refers to our own scope of work.

Installers on a platform at the top of 34-metre racking, Unil, Norway

Norway · 2022–2023

High-bay racking, 34 m

20 installers · 7 winter months · on schedule, 0 accidents

Suspended mezzanine with stairs, Levi Strauss Dorsten

Germany · 2023

Mezzanine suspended from the roof

Handed over ahead of schedule · 0 accidents

Aisle between tall shelving in a pick tower, Goleniów

Poland · 2021

Two pick towers

Up to 60 installers at peak

Mobile crews

We arrive complete. In our own vans.

The crew, the tools and the site manager travel in our own vans. You don’t arrange travel or accommodation.

Our client about our site in Norway

“Perfect. I have never seen a site left this clean.”

Rik Debeuf
Project manager, STOW

Who we are

A family installation company. From Berlin to Norway.

It started in the 1990s in Berlin, in a family racking-installation business that grew to more than 150 people. In 2019 Rafał Paweł Taras and his wife founded WDW to focus on fully automated warehouses. We started with 18 people. Today we work by the kaizen principle and are implementing ISO 9001 and ISO 45001.

People and quality

Fair conditions. A clean site.

Employment by the rules of each country

  • Norway: Norwegian employment contract, registration with NAV, HMS card for every installer
  • Sweden: registered for F-skatt, ID06 arranged before the project starts
  • Denmark: collective agreement with the trade unions (overenskomst)
  • France and Germany: carte BTP, tax exemption in Germany
  • Good wages and all overtime paid
  • Liability insurance covering Norway and the rest of Europe

People and safety

  • Very good accommodation and comfortable transport for every crew
  • UDT certificates (Polish Office of Technical Inspection) and IPAF for mobile platforms
  • Health and safety training for work at height, and up-to-date medical checks
  • Site-specific safety induction at the start of every project
  • Permanent crews, one project manager, a daily report and early warning of risks
  • A tidy site, confirmed by our clients
  • We are implementing ISO 9001 (quality) and ISO 45001 (health and safety)
Material sorted and laid out in the hall during installation

From enquiry to handover

Five steps. No surprises.

01

Enquiry

Drawings, a bill of materials or a short description.

02

Site visit and quote

We look at the site and give you a clear quote.

03

Planning

Crew, equipment and schedule.

04

Installation

A report every day.

05

Handover

Inspection report and documentation.

Got a project? Send the drawings – we’ll prepare a quote.

Projects of 20,000 to 60,000 man-hours are everyday work for us. Attach drawings, a bill of materials or installation instructions.

Rafał Paweł Taras, CEO of WDW Nordics
Rafał Paweł Taras
CEO, WDW Nordics
office@wdw-group.eu
+48 500 760 540