Aluminium Die Casting

Your HPDC Global partner

With more than 50 years’ experience in aluminium injection moulding, CIE Automotive has developed aluminium injection moulding with its ancillary finishing, machining and leak-tightness testing processes to provide a global service for its customers. To do this we focus our efforts on constantly improving our processes in order to become our customers’ favourite partner.

Aluminium highlights

Production plants: 10

Turnover: 388 M€ (2023)

Capacity: 38.201 Toneladas

Products
Ladderframe, Front Covers, Oil Pans, Covers, Bearing Cups, Brackets, Pistons, Clutch Housing, Mechanical Housing, Rack Housing, Worm Housing

Processes

  • Aluminium High Pressure Die Casting
  • Aluminium gravity casting
  • Machining
  • Assembly

Machinery
High Pressure Die Casting Machines (360-2.800Tns)
Machining cells
Assembly cells

Worldwide presence

We use High presure die casting in the following countries:

Machining

We are able to support our customers on almost all types of machining procesess within the Automotive Industry.

We are machining a wide variety of products made of steel, iron casting, aluminium etc.

We are using the latest machining technologies on high performance automated lines to ensure a high level of quality, efficiency and competitiveness in all our machined products.

Machining highlights

Production plants: 26

Turnover: 721 M€ (2023)

Products
Injection Rails for Diesel engines, crankshaft caps, differential housings, wheel hubs, electric powered steering components, valve guides, gearbox crown wheels, flanges, shafts, turned components…

Processes

  • CNC Turning (soft & hard)
  • Drilling
  • Tapping
  • Reaming
  • Boring
  • Miling
  • Deep Drilling
  • Rolling
  • Broaching (internal, external & helical)
  • CNC Multispindle
  • Straightening
  • Grinding
  • Balancing
  • Axial Forming
  • Hobbing (soft & hard)
  • Power skiving
  • Gear shaving
  • Teeth pointing
  • Shaping
  • Polishing
  • Burnishing
  • ECM
  • Laser welding
  • Electron Beam Welding
  • Induction Hardening (single & double frequency)
  • Induction Tempering
  • Carburization Hardening
  • Autofrettage
  • Leak testing
  • Shot Blasting
  • Shot Peening
  • Chemical Nickel Coating
  • Cold Forming
  • Anodizing
  • Washing
  • Assemblies

Machinery
Multispindle machines, CNC, Transfer, broaching, grinding, Induction hardening, ...]

Plastic

Inspiring creative and challenging designs to achieve efficient production processes.

With over 4 decades of experience in Automotive plastic injection, CIE Automotive's Plastics Division can support its Automotive customers since the early conception of the components, leading and assuming design, validation, tooling construction and final production with a big range of technologies combining technical and esthetical parts.

Plastic highlights

Production plants: 16

Turnover: 419 M€ (2023)

Products
Arm Rest, Storage Compartment, Trim Parts, Central Console, Ashtray, Glove Compartment, Electric Components, In Mould Decorations,Ttechnical Parts, Rear-View Mirrors, Door Handles.

Processes

  • Plastic injection moulding
  • Chroming
  • Extrusion
  • Vacuum forming
  • Textile back injection
  • IMD (im mold decoration)
  • Flocking
  • Mucell
  • Gas injection
  • Bimaterial injection

Machinery
Injection machines from 41 Tn up to 3.000 Tn

Related documents

Worldwide presence

We use Plastic in the following countries

Metal Stamping & Tube Forming

CIE is one of the leading companies on Metal Stamping components for Automotive Global market.
We are able to Stamp components with different procesess and in various countries around the globe.
Some of our Key components are Gasoline rails, Steering Columns, Body In White, Chassis components as well as various Seat assemblies.
We supply components to most of the OEMs and Tier 1 in the Industry.

Metal Stamping & Tube Forming Highlights

Production plants: 21

Turnover: 929 M€ (2023)

Products
Components for Brake Boosters, Steering and Seats / Injection Rails for Gasoline Engines, Body in White components and Assemblies, Chassis welded assemblies …

Processes

  • Transfer stamping & Progressive Stamping
  • Robotized Press Lines
  • Welding of all kinds (spot, laser, MAG, brazing, …)
  • Painting (KTL, ecoat, …)

Machinery
Progressive (100 T - 2.500 T) Transfer (400T - 2.500 T) Press lines (G1, G2, G3)

Roof Systems

Innovation for comfort and well-being

Innovation for comfort and well-being:
We optimize comfort of transportation by creating and supporting tomorrow's concepts to reinforce user well-being.

We provide complete solutions for roof systems together with shading systems.

With our solutions for glass sytems we also enhance users' experience in their cars.

Roof Systems highlights

Production plants: 18

Turnover: 654 M€ (2023)

Products
Top & Bottom Load Multi-panel Sunroofs, Shading….

Processes

  • Assembly of glass
  • Gluing
  • Assembly of fabric
  • Glass Encapsulation
  • Roller blind assembly
  • Final assembly and test

Machinery
Gluing robots, Assembly lines

Worldwide presence

We use Roof Systems in the following countries

Contact

Headquarters, production plants, and commercial offices

More info

Iron Casting

La tecnología de calidad y la excelencia

CIE Automotive produces cast parts in both Brazil and India. Our cast components can also be machined at our plants, in accordance with our customers’ preferences. We supply large numbers of brake parts for commercial vehicles, as well as turbocharger casings, exhaust manifolds and differential casings, among other items.

Casting highlights

Production plants: 3

Turnover: 153 M€ (2023)

Products
Brake drums, brake discs and wheel hubs, crankshaftfs, turbocharger housings, exhaust manifolds, differential cases and carriers, wheel hubs, brackets, etc

Processes

  • Green sand moulding; heat treatment
  • Machining

Machinery
Disamatic Casting Lines
Machining Capability

Related documents

Worldwide presence

We use Casting in the following countries:

Contact

Headquarters, production plants, and commercial offices

More info

Forging

Your global partner for your local solutions

CIE Automotive has developed Forging Capabilities to support our customer's needs wherever they are requested.

Being one of the world major forging firms, we continuously strive to keep on improving our processes in order to be the preferred partner to all our customers worldwide.

Forging highlights

Production plants: 15

Turnover: 695 M€ (2023)

Products
PASSENGER CAR: Crankshafts, Common Rail, Pistons, Hybrid Rotor, Exhaust Flanges, Connecting Rods, Pinion shaft, CVT Components, Hybrid Driveshaft, Flange shafts, Differential Crown, CV.Joints and Pinions, Tulips and Outer races, Wheel Hubs and chassis brackets.
TRUCK & OTHERS: Front Axle beam, Knuckles, Camshafts, Spindles,Axle shafts, Brake camshafts and others.

Processes

  • Vertical and Horizontal Presses for passenger car and truck components.
  • Hot and Warm Forging.
  • Close and Open die.
  • Manual and Automatized procceses.
  • Raw Parts, Pre machined and finished parts.
  • Cold calibration complementary processes and others.

Machinery
Presses from 700 Tn to 12.800 Tn
Heat Treatment capabilities
Upsetters & Electro upsetter