Electrical installation Sondershausen
| ELSO GmbH
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1902 |
| Seat | An der Wipper 5-7, D-99706 Sondershausen , Germany |
| Number of employees | 190 (2017) |
| sales | 36 million euros (2017) |
| Branch | Electrical installation |
| Website | www.se.com/de/ |
The ELSO GmbH , based in Thuringia Sondershausen is the French electrical company Schneider Electric assumes. Electrical installation products for residential and commercial buildings are manufactured there.
Since October 2018 ELSO has been operating as the Sondershausen location of Merten GmbH, which is also part of the tailoring group . This was also registered as the owner of the ELSO brand in March 2019.
Product and activity areas
In addition to the classic installation components, the ELSO brand includes combinable platforms such as the nurse call systems MEDIOPT care and SIGMA and the building management systems IHC and KNX . The focus is on "intelligent building technology".
- Switches and sockets
- Building automation (building control, roller shutter and blind control, lighting control)
- Nurse call systems
In the group, the factory in Sondershausen is particularly important for the production of metal components for other Schneider Electric factories.
history
Electrotechnical products have been manufactured in Sondershausen since 1898. At the site of today's ELSO factory, the Flick brothers from Ruhla converted an old mill into a clock factory under the name Kyffhäuser clocks in 1895 . For economic reasons, this company changed its offer and manufactured fuses , lamp sockets and switches from 1898 . In 1901 the brothers had to file for bankruptcy. Kurt Lindner , authorized officer in Gotha, took over the business and ran it from March 27, 1902 under the name Lindner and Co. as an open trading company .
Between 1916 and 1922 the factory was enlarged considerably. In 1925, Lindner & Co employed over 1,100 people. During the Second World War , part of the building was rented to Junkerswerke Dessau. The company Brunnquell und Co. , a factory for electrotechnical equipment and lighting, founded in the district of Bebra in 1913 , was merged with the former company. After the Second World War, the company was expropriated in 1946 and transferred to public ownership on June 1, 1948, which gave it a monopoly in the GDR . The owner Kurt Lindner went to the west.
The VEB Kombinat Elektroinstallation Sondershausen was founded in 1970 with its headquarters in Sondershausen and eleven associated companies from Saxony to Mecklenburg . As of 1980, the Sondershauser Werk was a leading company for installation material and was part of the Hermsdorf Ceramic Works . VEB Elektroinstallation Sondershausen (EIS) was the second largest company in Sondershausen. By the end of 1989 it employed around 3,200 people.
In 1993 the company was privatized by the Scandinavian group Ahlstrom Electrical Accessories under the name ELSO GmbH Elektrotechnik . In 1999 Schneider Electric took over ELSO GmbH. In 2002 ELSO was renamed Lexel Electric GmbH , but renamed ELSO GmbH again in 2003 as part of the integration process of Lexel Electric GmbH within Schneider Electric.
literature
- Company history VEB Elektroinstallation Sondershausen. Druckhaus Möbius Artern 1985.
- Andreas Dornheim, Stephan Schnitzler: Thuringia 1989/90: Actors of upheaval report. Volume 1 of Thuringia yesterday & today, State Center for Political Education Thuringia 1995.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thuringian Cluster Management (THCM) Merten GmbH, location Sondershausen (ELSO). Accessed June 1, 2020.
- ↑ DPMAregister | Register information for trademarks, word and figurative mark ELSO, register number 2054575. Retrieved on June 1, 2020.