Gestamp Automoción
| Limited liability company, S.L. | |
| Industry | Automotive components |
| Founded | 1997 |
| Founder | Francisco Riberas |
| Headquarters | Madrid, Spain |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people |
Francisco José Riberas Chief Executive |
| Products | Structural chassis assemblies (crossmembers), hinges |
| Services | Laser beam welding, hot stamping, cold stamping, HSS stamping, roll forming, hydroforming |
| Revenue | 8.202m euros (2017) |
Number of employees | c. 41,000 |
| Parent | Corporación Gestamp S.L. |
| Website | Gestamp Automoción |
Gestamp Automoción is a Spanish multi-national engineering company, one of leading in the European automotive industry.
History
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.[1] The ThyssenKrupp division employed around 5,700 people.[2]
Structure
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.
Products
- Structural components of automobiles (crossmembers)