GF Automotive, a division of GF, and its joint venture partner Linamar Corp. have selected Henderson County (North Carolina, US) as locationfor GF Linamar LLC’s first light metal die-casting plant.
GF汽车产品，GF集团旗下事业部之一，与其合资伙伴利纳马公司决定将第一座轻金属压铸的合资工厂落址于美国北卡罗来纳州亨德森县。
The official signing of the contract by the management ofLinamar Corp. and GF Automotive was attended by a delegation of representativesof North Carolina which included governor Pat McCrory and Henderson County.
由北卡罗来纳州州长PatMcCrory和亨德森县代表所组成的代表团，出席了利纳马公司和GF汽车产品的正式合同签约会议。
(Josef Edbauer (2.f.l.) and Linda Hasenfratz (3.f.l.) with members of the GF Linamar team and a delegation of representatives of North Carolina and Henderson County.
Josef Edbauer左二，Linda Hasenfratz左三，与GF利纳马团队成员和北卡罗莱纳州和亨德森县的代表组成的代表团。)
GF Automotive and Linamar announced their joint venture named GF Linamar LLC in mid-July 2015 to combine leading expertise in casting and machining. The new plant will be located on a 57-acres site at the Ferncliff Industrial Park in Mills River. It will produce light metal components for the North American market, starting with body and structure parts for a Europeancar manufacturer. The initial investment amounts to approx. USD 100 million. Start of operations is planned for mid-2017.
GF汽车产品和利纳马于2015年7月中旬共同宣布将结合双方领先的专业技术，即铸造和机械加工相结合，建立合资企业，该合资公司将命名为“GF利纳马有限责任公司”。新工厂占地57英亩，位于米尔斯河的克里夫工业园内。它将在北美市场为欧洲汽车制造商生产车身结构件的轻金属零件。其初始投资额约为1亿美元，将于2017年中旬开始量产。
“We appreciate very much the warm welcome and the support from the state of North Carolina and the HendersonCounty authorities”,comments Yves Serra, CEO of GF. “The location is ideal for us and we look forward to a prosperous future for our joint venture in the US”.
“我们非常感谢来自北卡罗来纳州和亨德森县当局的真诚欢迎和大力支持”，GF首席执行官Yves Serra先生说道，“新工厂的选址非常理想，我们期待我们在美国的合资工厂有很好的发展前景。”
“We are very pleased to announce that we have selected Henderson County, North Carolina, as the site of the GF Linamar LLC plant,” stated Linda Hasenfratz, CEO of Linamar. “This will be our fourth plant in North Carolina, an area where we have thrived thanks to a fantastic workforce and a great business environment. It is rapidly becoming an important hub for us to serveour customers in the southern US and North America overall.”
利纳马首席执行官LindaHasenfratz 女士则说道：“我们非常荣幸的宣布，我们为GF利纳马有限责任公司选址北卡罗来纳州亨德森县，这将是我们在北卡罗来纳州的第四座工厂，我们的蓬勃发展得益于这里优异的员工团队以及良好的经营环境。它正迅速成为我们在美国南部及整个北美洲的重要枢纽。”
Linamar Corp. was founded in 1966 by the Hasenfratz family and is listed at the Toronto Stock Exchange. With its 48 worldwide manufacturing facilities and a workforce of 19 500 employees the company generated sales of CHF 3.1 billion (CAD 4.2 billion) in 2014. Its reputation is built upon itsexpertise in precision machining of metallic powertrain products for theautomotive industry.
利纳马公司，1966年由Hasenfratz家族建立，现在多伦多证券交易所上市。凭借其在全球48家制造工厂以及全球19,500名员工，2014年公司年销售额达到31亿瑞士法郎（折合加元42亿）。利纳马凭借为汽车行业提供专业精密加工的动力产品获得其行业内的巨大成就。
GF Automotive is one of the leading automotive suppliersworldwide and specializes in lightweight solutions for the automotive industry. It produces more than 600 000 tons of iron, aluminum and magnesium components at nine production plants in Germany, Austria and China. With 5 000 employees,GF Automotive generated sales of about CHF 1.4 billion in 2014.
GF汽车产品是全球领先的汽车零部件供应商之一，专注于汽车行业的轻量化解决方案。它在德国，奥地利以及中国的九个工厂年生产超过60万吨的铁、铝、镁零部件。其全球拥有近5,000名员工，在2014年的年销售额达约14亿瑞士法郎。