GFX Automotive
 Plants & Capabilities

Ground Effects' manufacturing and assembly facilities allow it to meet and exceed the exacting design and durability specifications of its automotive customers. The result: stylish and cutting-edge accessory products for SUV's, trucks and other light vehicles; competitively priced and shipped on time! Ground Effects' plants and facilities are all centrally-located in Windsor, Ontario, Canada and consist of:

Fabrication Plants
Ground Effects has 120,000 square feet of fabricating plant capacity, where the process begins for all the company's tubular and extruded products. Here, component parts are brushed, bent, re-cut and formed, and welded prior to being sent to one of our professional finishing sources. These state-of-the-art facilities feature just some of the following capabilities:
CNC Tube Bending: featuring 6 bending machines allowing Ground Effects to employ up to six bending lines at a time.

CNC Machining: featuring two CNC machines used to cut, shape and form any type of steel or aluminum material.

roboticsRobotic Plasma Cutting: featuring 3 robotic index units capable of re-cutting holes and lengths of any size and shape

High-definition Plasma Cutting:  featuring 1 plasma table used to cut and shape brackets and other components

Robotic Welding:  featuring 8 state-of-the art robots, with programing capabilities to meet the most exacting weld requirements.

Forming and stamping of tubed and solid materials: featuring 3 hydraulic stamping presses and various brake and pneumatic presses.

Brushing: featuring steel and aluminum brushing capabilities.

Manual Welding Capacities: MIG, TIG, and aluminum capabilities. All of these capabilities allow Ground Effects to produce products from a variety of source materials including extruded aluminum tubing and open profiles, steel tubing, DOM tubing and stainless steel. Utilizing professional finishing sources, Ground Effects then supplies these products in a variety of finishes, including chrome and black chrome, anodized aluminum in multiple colours, e-coat/powder coat, and wet paint.

Assembly & Packaging Plant:
Finished components are assembled, packaged and shipped to Ground Effects' customers from this 50,000 sq. ft. facility. Custom-built hydraulic step presses and other assembly fixtures are used for final assembly of Ground Effects' side steps, running boards, grille guards, rockrails, bumpers and bedrails. The plant's 15,000 sq. ft. of shipping capacity boasts eight shipping/receiving docks which handle ongoing truck traffic throughout each business day, as well as warehousing sectors for GMSPO, DaimlerChrysler, and other customers.


  


Upfit & Installation
A recently expanded element of Ground Effects' business is its in-house upfit and installation programs; particularly its newly-launched Dodge Charger and Chrysler Minivan programs for the DaimlerChrysler Group. Ground Effects is currently installing various supplier products on the Daytona version of the new Charger, and on the top-selling Minivan. All upfit work is being conducted in the company's newly refurbished 40,000 sq. ft. Upfit facility.

Ground Effects also performs upfit work for General Motors Canada through a bailment program that sees Ground Effects outfit full-sized GMC pick-ups and SUVs with GM-approved accessories, and then market these vehicles directly to Canadian-based GM dealers.

Ground Effects skill and experience at upfit, and its available capacities, make it an ideal choice for customers seeking upfit services: whether for consumer or commercial cars and trucks, or military and law enforcement vehicles.




Hydragraphics & Paint Plant
This 30,000 sq. ft. facility is home to one of Ground Effects newest business components: its Decorative Finish & Paint Plant. Utilizing the water-immersion graphic patterns and processes licensed from Immersion Graphics Corporation, of Columbus, Georgia (USA), Ground Effects' newest facility provides its automotive customers the opportunity to market their interior and exterior vehicle components like dashes, instrument panels, consoles, hood scoops, engine covers, door handles (and much more) with literally hundreds of finishes; such as wood-grained patterns, leather and brushed aluminum. The facility features a state-of-the-art robotic dipping process, as well as fully automated paint and clear coat lines.