GEDIA
| GEDIA Gebrüder Dingerkus GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1910 |
| Seat | Attendorn |
| management | Helmut Hinkel, Markus Schaumburg |
| Number of employees | 4,300 |
| sales | over € 670 million (2019, according to company information) |
| Branch | Automotive supplier |
| Website | www.gedia.de |
| Status: 2019 | |
The GEDIA Brothers Dingerkus GmbH develops and manufactures structural parts and assemblies for the automotive lightweight body and chassis components. With a total of eight production sites in Germany, Spain, Poland, Hungary, China, India and Mexico as well as joint ventures and cooperations in the USA, the group is internationally positioned. In addition, GEDIA is involved in various research and development companies. Around 950 employees currently work at the Attendorn location, the global workforce is over 4,300.
history
In 1910 Anselm Dingerkus founded the company with his brother Ferdinand. Initially, the brothers dealt with the manufacture of jewelery goods, before the production program was expanded to include hollow sheet metal handles for enamel dishes in 1925. In the 1950s, the company entered the production of plastic handles and began simultaneously with the production of pressed, stamped and drawn parts, especially for automobile production. At the end of the 1990s, production plants were opened in Nowa Sól, Poland and Sta. Margarida, Spain. A plant in Hungary, a second plant in Poland and new plants in China and Mexico followed. Engineering centers were also set up in France, the USA and Sweden. With the sale of the handle division in 2003, the company focused on developing lightweight automotive technologies and chassis components. In 2016, the GEDIA Automotive Group grew by two new locations - Michigan, USA and Pune, India.
At the beginning of 2020, hackers penetrated the IT systems of the company headquarters, so that the entire EDP had to be shut down. An apparently Russian hacker group claimed responsibility for the cyber attack and demanded a ransom. Otherwise, stolen data should be published.
Awards
- 2007: Victory in the " Excellence in Production " competition in the "Internal toolmaking under 100 employees" category
- 2009: Finalist in the "Excellence in Production" competition in the "Internal toolmaking under 100 employees" category
- 2010: Victory in the "Excellence in Production" competition in the "Internal toolmaking under 100 employees" category
- 2013: Victory in the "Excellence in Production" competition in the "Internal toolmaking over 50 employees" category
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ GEDIA Automotive Group , accessed on August 5, 2019.
- ↑ Key figures on the company website
- ↑ Flemming Krause: Attendorn: Gedia headquarters is lame after cyber attack. January 23, 2020, accessed on May 16, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Thorsten Streber: Cyber attack on Gedia: Confession letter published. January 30, 2020, accessed on May 16, 2020 (German).