GKN Automotive：GKN Automotive

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Manufacturer of driveline components

GKN Automotive is a multinational manufacturer of driveline components, all-wheel drive systems and plug-in hybrid systems for the automotive industry.[2]

It employs around 25,000 people across 47 manufacturing facilities and 6 technology centres in 19 countries.[3]

In 2018, Melrose Industries[2] acquired GKN Ltd and renamed it GKN Automotive.[4] This encompasses both the Driveline and ePowertrain divisions.[3]

GKN Automotive became the worlds largest producer of constant-velocity joints (CVJs), which it began manufacturing in the 1960s for early front-wheel drive cars.[5] Its other products include sideshafts, propshafts, modular eDrive systems, multi-mode hybrid transmissions for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, torque vectoring systems for electric drivelines and a range of all-wheel drive and four-wheel drive systems.[2]

GKN, originally known ...