Gestamp opens new plant in Mexico

Gestamp, a multinational manufacturer of highly engineered metal components for the automotive industry, has inaugurated its new plant in San Luis Potosí, Mexico.

The $86 million facility is the first Gestamp plant in Mexico for manufacturing chassis parts. Employing more than 300 people, it is equipped with machinery for hot stamping to produce lightweight, safer parts, and for hydroforming, which uses water to form complex steel shapes for integration into a vehicle’s structural components. This is Gestamp’s first hydroforming line in North America.