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Holdings , to hear more about his journey thusfar , since joining the organization in 2020 .
“ As president , I oversee the operations of our two US plants , one in Michigan and one in Georgia ,” Michael starts . “ We have around 4400 employees working for us across eight countries : Germany , Spain , Hungary , Poland , China , India , Mexico , and the US . Even though we have worked in many different sectors over the years , GEDIA is now known as an expert in developing and producing complex multi-material structural body
We were also very lucky in the partnerships that we formed during the build , such as those with United Grading and Shimizu in the US , AP & T from Sweden , AWL from the Netherlands , and then Lewa and Trumpf from Germany
and chassis components made out of inhouse hot and cold stamped parts used for all kinds of applications in the automotive industry . Here at our Georgia location , we are primarily focused on supporting Mercedes-Benz ’ s US production arm .
Enhancing safety
“ GEDIA USA is equipped to facilitate both cold and hot stamping . Cold stamping is exactly how it sounds , we press cold steel from a coil or blank into shape . Hot stamping requires the blanks to be heated to approximately 930 to 960 degrees Celsius before forming . The rapid cooling in the forming die produces a martensitic structure of the material with an extremely high tensile strength . These parts are mainly used for body components to protect the occupant in the vehicle in case of an impact . What makes us unique compared to other hot stampers is the fact that we are using an additional process step called TemperBox . With the help of this additional step we are able to apply different material properties in different sections of the component . This comes in handy to achieve a certain crash behavior ,
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