AUSTRIA - After two years of construction Grass new, logistics center and warehouse in Hohenems, Austria is now fully operational.

The new state of the art facility will considerably improve the group’s production capacity and customer satisfaction.

Hohenems is already the third site in the state Vorarlberg and at EUR 70 million not only the biggest investment in company history, but also the biggest logistics construction project ever completed in Vorarlberg.

The eleven-aisle warehouse is 22 stories tall, features more than 600 racking uprights and can accommodate almost 38,000 pallet spaces. More than 5,000 tons of steel were used in the construction and the building is more than 180 meters long and covers an area of more than 11,000 square meters.

“Optimizing the order fulfillment process is one of the key challenges to achieving long-term success and impressing your customers,” says Albert Trebo, CEO of the Grass Group.

“The demand for Grass products remains strong. However, delivery bottlenecks over the past few years meant we were unable to leverage opportunities. Even if the COVID-19 crisis is delaying our planned targets – with the central warehouse, we are resolving a significant bottleneck and creating the conditions for profitable and sustainable development.”