# Gestamp opens new automotive components factory in South Staffordshire

Gestamp opened a new 50,000m² manufacturing facility in Four Ashes, West Midlands, UK, with an investment of nearly £50 million. The plant features hot stamping lines and aluminum stamping, serving automotive customers including JLR, Nissan-Renault, Volvo, Ford, BMW, Toyota and Honda. It will safeguard 800 jobs by transferring capacity from the Cannock plant.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2018-09-14
- Where: Four Ashes, near Wolverhampton, West Midlands, United Kingdom
- Value: $65.0M (50.0M GBP)
- Jobs: 800
- Starts operating: 14 Sep 2018
- Status: completed
- Products: metal automotive components, hot stamped parts, aluminum parts, battery boxes for electric vehicles
- Sectors: [Automotive Components](https://endata.com/sectors/automotive-components.md)

## Companies

- [Gestamp](https://endata.com/companies/16876.md)

## Sources

- [pesmedia.com](https://www.pesmedia.com/gestamp-opens-new-factory-in-south-staffordshire), 2018-09-14: "Gestamp has opened a new 50,000m² manufacturing facility in Four Ashes near Wolverhampton, West Midlands."
- [just-auto.com](https://www.just-auto.com/news/gestamp-opens-new-uk-site-ahead-of-any-brexit-deal/), 2018-09-14: "The Spanish supplier has opened its new manufacturing facility in Wolverhampton, known as Gestamp West Midlands, safeguarding 800 jobs which will gradually transfer from its existing plant in Cannock to the new site, which has seen GBP50m (US$66m) ploughed into industrial capability upgrade."

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