Born in the city that lies on the banks of Bega River, ELBA has been living and participating in all stages of Timisoara’s development, during its 9 decades of activity and growth. The nearly 90 years of experience in lighting techniques have turned ELBA into a well-known brand, and icon of Romanian industry, a top presence in the field of lighting.

The way that the vision we assumed has been turned into reality, shows that ELBA is a great manufacturer, focusing its concerns and resources for the benefit of its customers and the environment. A private company established entirely with Romanian capital, with shareholder fellowship focused on sustainable business model, ELBA is a success story of MEBO privatization.

The certifications received in quality management and environmental management as well as the "GREEN-LIGHT” concept, are the transposition into reality of the company’s vision, ELBA’s products being equipped to enable the use of modern eco-efficient, non- or low-polluting light sources while having a good performance-consumption ratio at the same time.

As part of the company’s vision, the strategic investment of relocating the production activities on a new emplacement is put into practice in 2010, as the most profound event in the company’s history – a new facility, on a modern location, showing the outmost respect for nature, the contemporary civilization and the plans of the local authorities – the “ELBA” factory in the Freidorf Industrial Park is established by the Municipality of Timisoara.

With technology able to match the expectations of tomorrow’s world - without affecting the social component - ELBA still provides employment for almost 1000 people. A modern production concept, put into practice by a creative and diligent team, generates added value to the portfolio of both general as well as automotive lighting, ensuring the brand’s steadiness on the market.

COMPANY STRUCTURE

An activity as complex as ELBA’s activity, requires a very high level of specialization from both structure and staff, in accordance with the requirements of the market economy. The two most representative components of ELBA’s products and activity are: the General lighting plant and the Automotive lighting plant.

GENERAL LIGHTING PLANT

The oldest lighting fixture manufacturing facility in Romania, it provides a large portfolio of products, covering the most diverse lighting applications:

- Indoor lighting for commercial, public, industrial, decorative and architectural purposes;

- Outdoor lighting for residential, ornamental, architectural and street lighting purposes;

- Emergency lighting, explosion-, water- and dust-proof fixtures;

- Traffic signaling for both vehicles and pedestrians.

Our products are fit to be equipped with tubular fluorescent sources as well as compact, eco-efficient, LED and other light-sources, according to the destination and performance requirements request by our customers, while fulfilling the specifications and requirements of European Standards SR EN ISO/CEI at the same time.

AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING PLANT

Certified facility according to ISO/TS 16949, manufactures products dedicated to the automotive industry, most of production being OEM. Both the technological level and the training we provide for our operators are aligned to the extremely high standards of the automotive industry, characterized by a constant concern for developing new projects, maintaining a diversified offer and remaining open towards the entire market.

Alongside these two major components, other structures have also gained renown because of their results:

LIGHTING SYSTEMS

ELBA’s specialized department, offering complete solutions for indoor as well as outdoor lighting, ensuring a comfortable and efficiently illuminated environment. Through our services, we can offer our customers project development using modern CAD tools – taking into account both qualitative and quantitative parameters based on the particular destination of each system - as well as “turn-key” projects.

TOOLING PLANT

Provides tools, dies, molds and various other devices for ELBA’s production shops and manufactures these types of products for external clients, relying on a team of highly trained specialists, solid experience and modern tooling-up.

Each of these structures has its own CDD – Conception and Design Department, where new products are conceived using CAD-Computer Aided Design techniques, associated with CAM – Computer Aided Machining - thus ensuring cost reduction and an efficient product development process.

ELBA LABORATORIES

Basic facility that provides a large variety of indispensable tests, specific to ELBA’s products, but also available to our customers, serve to certify that materials and components meet the prescriptions of the manufacturer. The Electromechanical Laboratory has been active since 1957, the Photometric Laboratory since 1973, the Chemical Laboratory since 1968 and the Metrology Laboratory since 1953. The Photometric and Electromechanical Laboratories are accredited by RENAR and the Metrology Laboratory is certificated by BRML.

After Romania signed the Geneva Convention in 1958 concerning the adoption of homogenous approval condition and reciprocal recognition of type approval for motor vehicle equipment and parts as of the 21st of February 1977, the Photometric Laboratory ELECTROBANAT, became an integral part of the Geneva Convention, known as Technical Service 19C - designated for International type approval testing.

Continuous investments made in state of the art technology as well as human resources and the use of the best components and materials coming from leading suppliers have allowed ELBA to develop products with an extremely convenient quality-price ratio, which, combined with an excellent warranty and high feasibility, established ELBA as a top brand in the lighting industry.

HISTORY LANDMARKS

- 1921 – DURA Company (the future core of ELBA) was created

- 1948 – nationalization of the company, which would be known as ELECTROBANAT

- 1990 – re-establishment of the company, in compliance with new legislation - ELBA SA

- 1995 – the MEBO privatization that ELBA had undergone was finalized

- 2010 – relocation of activity to the new plant in Freidorf Industrial Park.