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Constellium transforms customer needs into innovative solutions.
Driven by innovation, supported by C-TEC, our Research and Technology center, and in collaboration with customers, Constellium produces advanced alloys and cutting-edge technological rolled and extruded solutions.
With our three business units, we anticipate and respond to the fast-evolving market needs.
3 Business Units – 28 manufacturing sites
- Packaging and Automotive Rolled Products
- Aerospace and Transportation
- Automotive Structures and Industry
*2019 figures
Packaging and Automotive Rolled Products develops, provides and recycles aluminium sheets and coils for packaging applications (beverage and food cans, closures, foils) as well as automotive solutions, including high-performance products for Auto Body Sheet and heat exchangers. In addition, the business unit recycles end-of-life products, such as used beverage cans.
2019 key figures
- € 3.149 billion in revenues
- #1 worldwide in closure stock
- #2 in Europe and #3 in North America for can body stock
- #2 in Europe in Auto Body Sheet
Packaging and Automotive Rolled Products’ solutions
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Founded in 1967, the Neuf-Brisach plant is one of Constellium’s largest sites. Perfectly located in Europe’s industrial heartland, this unique integrated aluminium rolling, finishing and recycling facility designs and produces a wide portfolio of coil and sheet products, servicing customers in canstock and foodstock, automotive (body sheets, heat exchangers and equipment parts), as well as industry application sectors.
The Singen’s plant is an aluminium manufacturing plant with over 1,500 employees. With its high-grade cold mills, integrated hot/cold rolling line and one of the largest extrusion presses in the world, Singen’s plant is one of Constellium’s largest sites. Today, Singen develops, manufactures and distributes aluminium packaging and automotive rolled products, extruded products, automotive components.
With over 1,200 employees, the widest strip mill in the USA and a world-class recycling center, Muscle Shoals’ site represents one of Constellium’s largest sites.
Muscle Shoals’ main product is aluminium can sheet for the packaging industry, particularly for beverage containers. It manufactures sheet used in all three components of an aluminum can, namely body stock, coated end stock and tab stock. Additionally, Muscle Shoals’ supplies Auto Body Sheet substrate to Constellium’s Bowling Green, Kentucky, site .
The manufacturing plant is ideally located near major OEMs plants and houses a capacity of 100,000 metric tons of finished coils and sheets which can be directly stamped by OEMs or Tier1 stamping units. The plant supplies 5 and 6xxx alloys, and 7xxx alloys for ultra high strength requirements, with a wide spectrum of thicknesses and width, and provides coils and sheets for closures inners, outers and body in white.
In January 2019 Constellium acquired the remaining 49% stake in Constellium-UACJ ABS, LLC (CUA) to become fully owned by Constellium.
Key customers
Packaging:
AB InBev, Amcor, Anheuser-Busch, Ardagh Group, Ball, Can-Pack, Crown, etc.
Automotive:
Audi, BMW Group, Daimler, FCA, Ford, General Motors, Porsche, PSA, Renault-Nissan, Valeo, Volkswagen, etc.
Aerospace and Transportation provides technologically-advanced aluminium alloys with wide applications across the global aerospace, transportation, industry and defense sectors. The business unit offers a wide range of products including plates, sheets and extrusions which allow Constellium to provide tailored solutions, pre-machining and other added-value services to its customers.
2019 key figures
- € 1.462 billion in revenues
- #1 worldwide for aerospace plates
- #1 in north america for wide coils
- #1 in aero sheets in Europe
Aerospace and Transportation's solutions
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Plants
Constellium’s aerospace production sites all meet the highest standards. Issoire (France), Ravenswood (West Virginia, U.S.) and Montreuil-Juigné (France) form a high-quality industrial platform with unique capabilities.
Ussel (France) is one of the sole providers of sand casting aerospace components, while our plants in Valais (Switzerland) manufactures high value-added aluminium plates.
Two casting units produce Airware®, at the Issoire plant and our Technology Center in Voreppe, France.
Key Customers
Aerospace:
Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Dassault Aviation, Lockheed Martin, Pilatus, Space X, etc.
Defense:
BAE Systems, Bell, CMI Defence, Dassault, FNSS, General Dynamics, GKN, KMW, Lockheed Martin, MBDA, Nexter Systems, Northrop Grumman, Sikorsky, etc.
Transportation:
Benalu CAF, Gillig, Hitachi Rail, Kögel, Krone, Schmitz, Stadler, etc.
Automotive Structures and Industry produces advanced solutions for the global automotive industry, including body structures, Crash Management Systems (CMS), battery enclosures and other safety components and extrusions. This business unit also manufactures large profiles mainly for road and rail transportation, energy and other industrial applications. Constellium complements this product range with a comprehensive offering of downstream technology and services, including pre-machining, surface treatment and logistic support services.
2019 key figures
- € 1,351 billion in revenues
- #1 in Europe for large profiles
- #2 in Europe for hard alloy extrusions
- #2 worldwide in Crash Management Systems
Automotive Structures and Industry’s solutions
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Plants
Constellium’s Automotive Structures and Industry facilities are located close to our customers to respond to their needs as quickly as possible. Our international footprint allows us to manage global programs for automakers, while also focusing on local markets.
To support ongoing development, our University Technology Center at Brunel University London provides rapid prototyping for our global customers with dedicated production-scale casting and extrusion equipment, as well as a forming and joining center to produce and test aluminium automotive components.
From alloy development to product design, simulation and testing, prototyping and production, Constellium is a unique partner to our customers. To learn more about a specific facility, click the link below.
North America: Lakeshore, Ontario, Canada, Livonia, Michigan, USA, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, Van Buren, Michigan, USA, White, Georgia, USA
Europe: Děčín, Czech Republic, Nuits-Saint-Georges, France, Burg, Germany, Crailsheim, Germany, Neckarsulm , Germany, Gottmadingen, Germany, Landau, Germany, Singen, Germany, Levice, Slovakia, Zilina, Slovakia, Vigo, Spain, Chippis and Sierre, Switzerland, Uxbridge, UK
Asia: Changchun, China, Nanjing,China , Tokyo, Japan
Key Customers
Automotive:
Audi, BMW Group, Daimler, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Ford, General Motors, Groupe PSA, Jaguar Land Rover, Robert Bosch, Volkswagen, etc.
Transportation:
Benalu CAF, Gillig, Hitachi Rail, Kögel, Krone, Schmitz, Stadler, etc.
Industry:
Air Torque, Dräger, Festo, Metso, Ryerson, Siemens, Thyssen Krupp, etc.