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Company type | Division |
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Industry | Automotive |
Headquarters | London, |
Area served | Worldwide |
Products | Automotive Components |
Owner | Dowlais Group PLC [1] |
Number of employees | 25,000 (2023) |
GKN Automotive is a multinational manufacturer of driveline components, all-wheel drive systems and plug-in hybrid systems for the automotive industry.[2]
It employs around 25,000 people across 47 manufacturing facilities and 6 technology centres in 19 countries.[3]
In 2018, Melrose Industries[2] acquired GKN Ltd and renamed it GKN Automotive.[4] This encompasses both the Driveline and ePowertrain divisions.[3]
GKN Automotive became the world's largest producer of constant-velocity joints (CVJs), which it began manufacturing in the 1960s for early front-wheel drive cars.[5] Its other products include sideshafts, propshafts, modular eDrive systems, multi-mode hybrid transmissions for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, torque vectoring systems for electric drivelines and a range of all-wheel drive and four-wheel drive systems.[2]