Profile

Organisation

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Internationally active group of companies with ten factories in three countries.

Company Headquarters

Schaffhausen, Switzerland

Focus of Work

Development and manufactoring of highly stressed castings for the automotive industry and its suppliers.

Locations

Germany, Austria and China

Market position

Technology and market leader in many areas in Europe. Great Competence in all casting processes relating to series production (sand casting, gravity die casting, pressure die casting,) as well as for processing the associated materials (iron, aluminum, magnesium).

Employees

Around 5200 world-wide

Turnover 2012

1,46 billion Swiss Francs (approximately 1,21 billion Euro).

Management Structure

The management structure reflects its organization as an internationally active corporate group with several plants at home and abroad.

The Management of the individual plants reports to the respective division management and the latter to Josef Edbauer, the Head of GF Automotive. The departments Marketing and Sales, Human Resources, Purchasing, Research and Development as well as Finances and Controlling also report to him.

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