Gestamp, a designer, developer and manufacturer of highly engineered metal components for the automotive industry, announced the inauguration of a new plant specializing in aluminium in Nitra (Slovakia).
With nearly 130 million euros investment, the facility will manufacture aluminium components for Jaguar Land Rover, which recently started operations in Slovakia. Production is expected to begin in 2019.
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Gestamp Nitra production is focused on the Discovery model currently being produced onsite. The plant will also manufacture aluminium parts for the New Defender model.
Francisco J. Riberas, the Gestamp’ s Executive Chairman, said: “We always accompany our clients where they require us, which is exactly what we have done in this case: We have moved to Slovakia to proficiently serve Jaguar Land Rover with the highest standards in a plant that intends to be the Slovakian press shop of our client”.
Riberas also explained that Gestamp “will apply all of its know-how accumulated over the years in technology and materials to reduce the weight of vehicles and increase their safety. In this case we will provide aluminium solutions to Jaguar Land Rover, a material in which, alongside steel, Gestamp maintains a frontline position.”
With a workforce of nearly 200 employees, the plant will produce skin panels and structural parts for the body mainly out of aluminium.
“This step is a move forward in the strategy of Gestamp of becoming a multi-material strategic supplier for its clients. Components manufactured in Nitra are intended to reduce the weight and enhance the safety of vehicles, consistently with Gestamp’s global objectives, according to the company press release.
The new facility joins the company's existing plant in Velky Meder (Dunajská Streda District) that manufactures products through its mechanisms subsidiary Edscha.
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