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.

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 ThyssenKrupp AG (, ; stylized as thyssenkrupp) is a German industrial engineering and steel production multinational conglomerate. It is the result of the 1999 merger of Thyssen AG and Krupp and has its operational headquarters in Duisburg a ...

, the large German international company. The ThyssenKrupp division employed around 5,700 people.Takeover
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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 (

crossmember A crossmember is a structural section that is transverse to the main structure. In the automotive industry, the term typically refers to a component, usually of steel, usually boxed, that is bolted across the underside of a monocoque / unibody ...

References

External links

Gestamp Automoción

Corporación Gestamp

Video clips

Inside of Spanish factory in 2011
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