Gestamp
Spanish multinational automotive engineering company
Gestamp Automoción, S.A. simply known as Gestamp is a Spanish multinational automotive engineering company. It is one of leading firms in the European automotive industry.
01History
Corporación Gestamp, Spain's largest automotive supplier steel company was founded in 1997, as a spin-off of Gonvarri, created in 1958; 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.
02Structure
It is based in Madrid in the Alfonso XII street just in front of the Retiro´s park.
It has over 100 production plants in 21 countries -
- 45 in western Europe
- 17 in eastern Europe
- 13 in North America
- 13 in South America
- 17 in Asia
It has 13 R&D centres.
03Products
- Structural components of automobiles (crossmembers)
Sources and credits
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- Zamudio - Parque Científico y Tecnológico de Bizkaia - Gestamp Tool Hardening, SL 2.jpg by Zarateman, CC0
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