MANUFACTURING. EXCELLENCE. is our promise to you!

We know our roles! We successfully support the market leaders in the paper, film and converting industry with original solutions. Greater efficiency and a sustainable increase in added value mean lasting competitive advantages for your company. At the end of the 1990s, we decided to offer a solution for a niche market for which no optimized software solution existed at the time. We specialized in this niche. Since then, production has been running worldwide with our Manufacturing Execution System (MES), the industry solution COAGO MES. We know your needs and requirements and always help you to improve them. For more than 45 years, GRASS has been a leader in the digitization of the roll-based manufacturing and converting industries.
Large white rolls of paper are stacked in several rows side by side in a spacious industrial hall with a high ceiling and numerous ceiling lights. The rolls are neatly stacked and extend far into the hall.

Always close to the customer

A world map made up of gray dots shows the company’s international presence, with locations marked in red. The graphic is complemented by the company logo and key figures: over 5,000 COAGO users, more than 30 COAGO locations, over 40 GRASS employees, and more than 45 years of industry experience.

Innovation and passion since 1981

Programs for people

With this guiding principle, Grass GmbH was founded in 1981 by Ulrich H. Grass and managed by him personally for many years. Since that time, GRASS has established itself in the market as a reliable partner. Customer proximity and a feel for market development with imaginative solutions and a promise of quality that is taken seriously: These are still the characteristics with which GRASS convinces and stands out on the market today. With its COAGO Manufacturing Execution System, GRASS is one of the leading software solution providers in the roll manufacturing and converting industry. Behind Grass GmbH and the products are many people who work every day for the success of our customers.
GRASS employees work together in a modern, bright open-plan office. In small teams, they exchange ideas at their desks and computers, discuss projects, and collaborate with focus. In the background, the GRASS company logo is visible on the wall.
Timeline of GRASS’s company history: 1981—Development of custom software for various sectors and industries; 1991—Incorporated as Grass GmbH; 2004—Development of an MES; 2021—“We are GRASS! And we’ve been around for 40 years.”

Team

Your satisfaction is what drives us!

Over 50 inspired and competent employees work for your success. Team spirit, tolerance and honesty are the basis of our daily interaction. We live this not only towards our customers, but also internally.
Customer Relations
Heiko Friedrich
Heiko Friedrich
Head of Customer Realtions

Annika Swoboda
Annika Swoboda
Marketing and Communications
Customer Service
Fabian Hahn
Fabian Hahn
Teamlead Customer Service

Melek Kilic
Melek Kilic
Service

Norbert Stein
Norbert Stein
Key Account Management

Avatar Manuel Jung
Manuel Jung
Key Account Management

Waldemar Wiens
Waldemar Wiens
IT / MES Project Manager
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Soziales commitment

We regularly donate to Kinderhilfe-Bapatla e.V., a non-profit organization that supports children and their families with schooling and vocational training in India through numerous projects. We also support regional projects such as helping flood victims in Rhineland-Palatinate and the greening of the Winzenheimer Scheunenplatz for our 40th company anniversary.

For your success

As early as 1981, Ulrich Grass had the vision of making people’s lives and work easier with customized software solutions. At the beginning of the 1990s, the newly founded Grass GmbH developed an MES specially tailored to the needs of the film, paper, cardboard and cardboard industry. non-wovens production. The birth of COAGO MES. GRASS’s mission is to offer round solutions and thus contribute to the long-term success of its customers.
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Projects supported by GRASS

- Help for flood victims in the Ahr valley - Kinderhilfe Bapatla e.V. - Tree donation for the company's 40th anniversary