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Gestamp Automoción

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Industry
  
Automotive components

Area served
  
Worldwide

Revenue
  
5.757 billion EUR (2012)

Number of employees
  
32,000

Founder
  
Francisco Riberas

Headquarters
  
Madrid, Spain

Founded
  
1997

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Type
  
Limited liability company, S.L.

Key people
  
Francisco José Riberas Chief Executive

Products
  
Structural chassis assemblies (crossmembers), hinges

Subsidiaries
  
Edscha, Gestamp HardTech AB

Parent organization
  
Acek Desarrollo Y Gestion Industrial SL

Profiles

Gestamp Automoción is a Spanish multi-national engineering company, one of leading in the European automotive industry.

Contents

History

Corporación Gestamp, Spain's largest steel company was founded in 1958 as Gonvarri; it is wholly owned by the Riberas family.

When Gestamp Automoción was formed, it exclusively supplied SEAT. It had begun from Gonvauto in 1991.

On 29 April 2011 Gestamp Automoción bought ThyssenKrupp Metal Forming (TKMF), formerly owned by ThyssenKrupp, the large German international company. The ThyssenKrupp division employed around 5,700 people.

Structure

It is based in Madrid in the Alfonso XII street just in front of the Retiro´s park.

It has 95 production plants in 20 countries -

  • 49 in western Europe
  • 15 in eastern Europe
  • 8 in North America
  • 9 in South America
  • 14 in Asia
  • It has 12 R&D centres.

    Products

  • Structural components of automobiles (crossmembers)
  • References

    Gestamp Automoción Wikipedia