AUTOMOTIVE

DEDICATED TO QUALITY, COMMITTED TO PRECISION

The automotive industry is under pressure to meet regulatory requirements towards a better, greener, more efficient and sustainable mode of transport.

Critical elements to their approach, is less weight, more fuel efficiency while maintaining the high standards for strength and safety.

In the last 50 years, additional aluminium content has been the result of replacing cast iron (engine blocks and transmission housings), mild steel (car bodies and wheels), and copper (radiators).

Historically, aluminium has been used in automotive primarily in the form of castings while lately more aluminium content has been evident as a result of replacing cast iron (engine blocks and transmission housings), mild steel (car bodies and wheels), and copper (radiators).

Aluminium extrusion profiles and machined parts based on aluminium profiles had only to come since then, in a trend that is here to stay and keeps growing even more.

The automotive industry’s strict norms and requirements require highly certified and standardized procedures. ETEM Gestamp is committed to delivering high quality products and state of the art machined parts and collaborates with leading organizations and accredited laboratories for testing and certifying products and processes.

ETEM Gestamp is certified for the production of CRASH RELEVANT aluminium profiles and is an accredited TIER 1 and TIER 2 Automotive supplier, making products directly for the automotive industry and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).