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Electric-car growth will increase pressure on suppliers for flexibility, Gestamp says

Gestamp will make the steel boxes to house the battery packs for Volkswagen Group cars built on the new MEB electric platform. (Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg)
June 19, 2019 12:33 PM

BIELEFELD, Germany -- Automakers will demand much more production flexibility from suppliers of parts for electric cars to deal with unpredictable levels of demand, said Francisco Riberas, CEO of Spanish metal parts supplier Gestamp.

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