A global business for a global industry
GKN Land Systems employs over 6,000 people in global facilities worldwide, including the UK, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Italy, North and South America, China, Brazil and Japan and manufcatures and supplies components and products for the off highway and automotive industries.
Humble origins
GKN can trace its origins back to 1759 to a tiny ironworks on a Welsh hillside called Dowlais. From there GKN embarked on an industrial adventure which has shaped British engineering and has evolved into a world leader and over the last 250 years has changed shape and direction many times, but has always maintained its place at the forefront of engineering and driving innovation and excellence.
GKN was there when iron gave birth to the railway boom in the early-1800's, and when steel superseded iron in the 1860's. After the First World War, GKN moved into the 20th century’s greatest new industry – automotive. Later in the century, GKN took to the skies at the forefront of the aerospace industry.
GKN has spread its wings geographically, too. As the balance of economic growth has shifted, from Britain in the 18th and early-19th centuries to America, Western Europe and Japan in the 20th and on to the emerging powers of Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe, GKN has moved with it. Today, GKN is a truly global corporate citizen – with a remarkable history.
Today GKN Land Systems provides high technology solutions to the industries in which it operates and strives for excellence in all that it does. GKN Land Systems is a business that opeartes in a socially responsible and environmentally considerate way.