What Gestamp is and which company this profile covers
Gestamp designs, develops and manufactures metal components for vehicle manufacturers. The parent covered here is Gestamp Automoción, S.A., incorporated on 22 December 1997 and registered at the Lebario industrial estate in Abadiño —called Abadiano in the accounts—, Bizkaia, Spain. Its investor relations address at 16 Alfonso XII, Madrid, is a corporate contact separate from the registered office.
The financial analysis uses the full year from 1 January to 31 December 2025. Interim results for 2026 provide subsequent context, but do not replace that annual period or become an estimate for the full year.
Sources: 2025 audited consolidated accounts; Corporate investor relations contact; First nine months of 2026 results.
Origins and industrial growth
The company was established in 1997 and expanded internationally alongside vehicle manufacturers entering new markets. Its corporate history highlights the acquisition of Edscha in 2010, strengthening its mechanisms business, and the integration of ThyssenKrupp businesses in 2011. Expansion combined its own industrial capacity, acquisitions and local partnerships.
Gestamp began trading on Spanish stock exchanges on 7 April 2017. Adding Gescrap during the 2022–2023 period extended its role in metal recovery and management. These stages explain why the group now combines parts production, engineering, tooling and recycling, with systems and boundaries that do not always coincide.
Sources: 2025 management and sustainability report; 2025 audited consolidated accounts.
What it makes and how it creates value
Its products fall into three broad families: structural bodywork, chassis and mechanisms. Body-in-white comprises the metal parts forming a vehicle’s structure before painting and final assembly; the chassis supports and connects vehicle systems; mechanisms include hinges, opening systems and actuating components.
Commercial work begins in design and industrialisation, before series production. Stamping, welding, assembly and the manufacture of dies and presses allow geometry, strength and weight to be adapted to customer programmes. Occupant safety and product quality are technical objectives distinct from the occupational safety and health of the people producing the parts.
Sources: 2025 audited consolidated accounts; 2025 management and sustainability report.
Ownership, brands and consolidation boundaries
The accounts identify Acek Desarrollo y Gestión Industrial, S.L. as the parent of the wider group. The 2025 governance report attributes 75.02% of voting rights to it: 24.92% directly and 50.10% indirectly. These are voting rights reported under that structure, rather than a statement that other partners have no economic interests.
Gestamp is the main industrial brand; Edscha specialises in mechanisms and Gescrap operates in metal waste management. This profile uses the consolidated perimeter of Gestamp Automoción, including the companies it controls under the accounts. Subsidiary figures are not counted twice and wider-group revenue is not added.
Sources: 2025 audited consolidated accounts; 2025 corporate governance report; 2025 management and sustainability report.
Industrial presence and workforce
The 2025 report’s map presents operations in 24 countries, with 110 production plants and 13 R&D centres. A September 2025 investor presentation explains that a figure of 115 facilities includes 110 plants and five under construction. Project totals and operating capacity therefore need to retain their dates and definitions.
The own workforce at 31 December 2025 comprised 42,466 people, including 6,327 in Spain. Workforce reporting coverage increased from 98% of the perimeter in 2024 to 100% in 2025. The report also gives an annual average of 5,411 external agency workers; this is not year-end headcount and should not simply be added to the preceding figure.
Sources: 2025 management and sustainability report; Fixed-income investor presentation, September 2025.
2025 figures: revenue and earnings
Consolidated revenue in 2025 was €11,348.605 million, compared with €12,000.976 million in 2024. Total operating income of €11,622.265 million includes other income and inventory changes; it is not the same measure as the sales figure used here.
Operating profit was €546.422 million and profit attributable to shareholders of the parent was €152.207 million, compared with €188.490 million in 2024. Total consolidated profit, before allocation between the parent and minority shareholders, was €247.387 million. Separating these lines avoids attributing earnings belonging to other partners to the parent’s shareholders.
Sources: 2025 audited consolidated accounts; 2025 full-year results, published in February 2026.
Subsequent context: 2026 remains an incomplete year
The report published on 4 November 2026 puts January–September revenue at €8,432.4 million, down 0.6% from the same period in 2025. Operating profit for those nine months was €381.8 million. These are interim figures and are not multiplied to create a full-year result.
The company describes uneven demand, currency movements and the need to adapt capacity. Expansion has not stopped in every region: in June 2026 it presented the Piracicaba plant in Brazil following a reported investment of €34 million. That particular project does not by itself demonstrate uniform growth throughout the group.
Sources: First nine months of 2026 results; Opening of the Piracicaba plant in 2026.
Leadership and governance
Francisco J. Riberas Mera is identified as executive chairman in the 2025 report and the June 2026 corporate announcement. His role combines strategic leadership and executive involvement. The governance structure includes audit, appointments and remuneration, and sustainability committees with distinct responsibilities.
Management responsibilities are organised by function, product and geographical division. In a multinational group, common policies do not remove the need to verify implementation at each plant and by each employer, particularly when manufacturing and materials-recovery activities coexist.
Sources: 2025 corporate governance report; 2025 management and sustainability report; Opening of the Piracicaba plant in 2026.
Innovation, flexible manufacturing and technical training
The 2025 report describes 13 R&D centres and more than 500 co-development initiatives covering bodywork, chassis and mechanisms. Flexible manufacturing combines modular systems, autonomous mobile robots and software linking products, processes and people. The company distinguishes series production from a pilot plant where methods are tested and improved.
The opening of the Gestamp Technology Institute centre in Puebla in 2025 provides another example of investment in technical capabilities. These resources help explain its industrial model, but the reviewed documents do not quantify an accident reduction attributable to robots, pilots or training at that centre.
Occupational safety and health: GHSS and ISO 45001
The Gestamp Health and Safety System (GHSS) sets mandatory minimum standards for production plants. The report states that it is implemented in 100% of Gestamp production plants while explicitly excluding Gescrap plants, which have their own system. Consequently, “100%” does not mean that every consolidated activity shares exactly the same model.
ISO 45001 certification was pursued from 2022 through a multisite scheme. The report says most plants obtained certification and identifies an exception for four plants in Russia because of the war in Ukraine. This description does not support universal certification, nor should the four facilities mentioned in the certification scope be confused with the production-plant count on the industrial map.
How plant risks are reviewed
The system combines on-site audits every two years, lasting two to five days, with quarterly remote reviews. Plants report improvements, divisional prevention managers validate them and auditors review them against common criteria. In 2025, 50 plants received on-site audits and 974 factors were reviewed remotely; the 44 internal audits and 900 factors forecast for 2026 were plans, rather than verified completed results.
The internal community shares anonymous investigations, images and videos through safety alerts, alongside machine safety standards and technical guidance. The report counts 42 alerts since the initiative began, rather than 42 issued in 2025 alone. These are concrete learning and control mechanisms; their existence does not prove that every risk has been resolved.
Accidents, occupational diseases and comparability
In 2025 the group reported 846 lost-time accidents: 784 involving its own employees and 62 involving subcontracted personnel. The definition includes temporary employment agencies and outsourced services necessary for the activity, and excludes commuting accidents. It also reported five occupational diseases and zero fatal accidents, covering own employees and subcontractors within the published scope.
The frequency rate was 9 per million hours and combines lost-time accidents and occupational illnesses. The severity rate was 0.17 working days lost per 1,000 hours. These tables’ coverage increased from 92% of companies in the perimeter in 2024 to 100% in 2025, without restating 2024, and some hours breakdowns are estimated. The 835 accidents published for 2024 therefore do not provide a like-for-like basis for asserting that individual risk increased or decreased.
Circularity and work organisation
Gescrap brings metal recovery and management into the group’s model. The report also describes water recirculation in processes such as hydroforming, surface treatments and hot stamping, and an example in Chennai reusing treated water for gardening. These are practices with identifiable processes and locations, rather than a claim of no environmental impact.
From a prevention perspective, manufacturing, moving, recovering and transforming materials involve different tasks. Circularity projects require equipment, exposure and worker coordination to be examined at each facility. This connection is an editorial interpretation of the industrial model; health outcomes are not attributed to an environmental initiative without specific measurement.
Sources: 2025 audited consolidated accounts; 2025 management and sustainability report.
A historical safety case documented by HSE
The British regulator HSE’s historical register records a £400,000 fine against Gestamp Tallent Limited, decided on 7 March 2019, for breaching the general duty to protect its employees. The case identifies the Llanelli site in Wales and an offence date of 20 July 2016; it also records £7,757.58 in costs.
This is a historical, site-specific case. It does not by itself describe the current condition of all factories or automatically contradict accident figures for another period. It helps distinguish the existence of a corporate system, company-reported outcomes and regulatory action concerning particular facts.
Sources: HSE: Gestamp Tallent breach, 2019 decision; HSE: historical case 4575950.
What this case contributes to the study of prevention
Gestamp offers a case for studying safety in an industry combining presses, welding, automation, tooling and extensive workforce networks. Counting certificates is only part of that assessment: it also requires examining which risks each measure controls, who is covered and how indicator boundaries change.
This profile retains 2025 as its annual reference, identifies 2026 interim figures and uses an April 2025 photograph of the Gestamp Bizkaia plant. It is independently written editorial content and does not establish a commercial relationship with Sabentis or an endorsement by Gestamp.
Sources: 2025 audited consolidated accounts; 2025 management and sustainability report; First nine months of 2026 results; Gestamp Bizkaia photograph and licence on Commons.
Frequently asked questions
What does Gestamp manufacture?
Metal bodywork, chassis and mechanism components for vehicle manufacturers, as well as tooling and production technologies. Its services cover design, development, industrialisation and series production. [1]
Where is its registered office?
Gestamp Automoción, S.A. is registered at the Lebario industrial estate in Abadiño, Bizkaia. Its Madrid investor relations contact does not change that legal domicile. [1]
Which revenue figure does this profile use?
The profile uses 2025 consolidated revenue of €11,348.605 million. It does not confuse this with total operating income or interim figures for 2026. [1]
Do all plants use the same prevention system?
The report states that GHSS covers all Gestamp production plants but explicitly excludes Gescrap, which uses its own system. Its ISO 45001 description includes exceptions and does not amount to universal certification. [1]
Can 2024 and 2025 accidents be compared directly?
Not on a like-for-like basis: coverage increased from 92% to 100% of the perimeter without restating 2024. In 2025, 846 lost-time accidents were reported, including 784 involving own employees and 62 involving subcontracted personnel. [1]
