Irvin Ramirez

Gestamp North America

Gestamp is an international leader in the design, development and manufacture of automotive components for the main automotive manufacturers. Gestamp is specialized in developing innovatively designed products to achieve increasingly safer and lighter vehicles and, thereby, reducing energy consumption and environmental impact. The Company works with the largest world manufacturers in order to look for solutions focused on reducing car weight. Moreover, Gestamp also works on safety in case of collision in all its product range: body, chassis and mechanisms. For this reason, the 16 main world automotive groups trust Gestamp for equipping more than 800 vehicles with components manufactured by the Spanish company. Gestamp offers the whole value chain, from the press and dies (molds that shape the pieces) creation and manufacture to the final product manufacturing which will be assembled on the vehicles. The autoparts manufacturer promotes the training and development of its 41,000 employees, as they are the growth engine of the company, which has presence in 21 countries and counts with more than 100 production plants and 13 R&D centres. The firm considers that training and innovation are two fundamental pillars within Gestamp.