Elma Electronic is a global company that designs and manufactures solutions in electronics packaging. The company provides standard to fully customized components such as modular enclosures, cabinets and backplanes up to complete system integration. Elma also manufactures precision rotary switches. The company offers a fast, flexible response to customer needs and extensive practical knowledge in tailoring solutions to specific applications.

Why choose Elma?

Flexibility: Elma tailors solutions to individual applications to ensure fast and cost-effective results.

Experience: extensive practical experience in packaging electronic systems is used to minimize the time taken to develop new customised solutions without compromising system performance or reliability.

Compatibility: because the two key electromechanical components - enclosures and backplanes - are made in-house, Elma guarantees compatibility, consistency and reliability.

Global resources: with manufacturing in Europe and the USA customers benefit from local service backed by global resources.

Founded in 1960, the Elma Group today is a leading supplier for 19" electronic packaging and rotary components worldwide.

Elma’s modular approach allows fast, cost-effective, and proven performance for customized design modifications to standard platforms. The base products are centered around 19” and 23” Eurocard specification, with creative design innovations for VME/ VME64x, CompactPCI/2.16, VXS/VPX, VXI/PXI, AdvancedTCA/MicroTCA and other architectures. The company’s design expertise allows fast implementation of full custom designs for backplanes, sub-racks, enclosures and cabinets, as well as full system integration.

The Rotary Components division is a technology leader in rotary and coded switches, mechanical and optical encoders and is the preferred supplier in many electronic industries. Knobs , LED arrays, and pushbutton and dip switches complete the product offering. Customization is offered “in any quantity”.

The Elma Group has its headquarters in Wetzikon, Switzerland. The Elma Group incorporates production facilities in Switzerland, USA, Germany, Romania and Great Britain as well as company owned sales organizations in Switzerland, Germany, USA, France, Great Britain, Israel, Romania and China.

Since 1996, the group has been listed on the Swiss stock market.

Elma Americas

Founded in 1986, Elma Electronic Inc. is an industry innovator in the design and manufacture of electronic enclosures and passive electronic components. Elma Americas has achieved a leading position in the VME/ VME64x, CompactPCI/2.16, VXS/VPX, VXI/PXI, AdvancedTCA/MicroTCA and Rugged COTS packaging markets.

Elma has a broad base of customers throughout the United States and the Americas in diverse industries such as telecommunications, industrial control, medical electronics, defense and aerospace. The company maintains multiple sales, engineering and manufacturing operations in California and Sales/Engineering offices in Atlanta/GA, Washington/DC and Boston/MA. The companies headquarter is located in Fremont, California

Elma Electronic Inc. strives to provide products superior in quality, reliability, performance, and consistently presents new, innovative designs to the market. Elma's product line encompasses well over 20,000 parts, including enclosures, cabinets, high quality switches, LED arrays, knobs and much more. Elma also offers design/integration services backed by responsive and knowledgeable technical support.

Elma's leading quality level is reached through training of all employees and following of systematic procedures per ISO standards to which Elma has been certified.

As a leader in backplanes, Elma Bustronic Corp., delivers high-performance products that are unsurpassed in design and quality. Since 1989, the company has designed thousands of standard, modified and custom backplanes in a wide range of industries. The Elma Bustronic team of designers and engineers have delivered innovative and intelligent solutions for applications ranging from the most advanced supercomputers in the world, high profile combat systems, precision automation equipment, to ultra high-reliability medical imaging systems. Advanced simulation and rigorous testing is used to perfect each design, ensuring the signal integrity and performance of every backplane. Elma Bustronic is headquartered in Fremont, California.

Optima

Optima EPS Corp, an Elma company, is a designer and manufacturer of electronic cabinets, server racks, security consoles and complete enclosure systems. The company operated from a 110,000 sq.feet sales, engineering and manufacturing facility in Atlanta, Georgia.

Optima was formed 1962 by Scientific Atlanta and joined the Elma Group in 2004. The company tailors solutions to individual applications ensuring fast and cost-effective results. Extensive practical experience in packaging electronic systems is used to minimize the time taken to develop new customized solutions without compromising system performance or reliability. Furthermore, the in-house manufacturing ensures compatibility and consistency. [ top ]

Elma Switzerland AG

Elma Electronic AG was founded in 1960 in Hombrechtikon and has more than 40 years of experience in the design and manufacturing of modular mechanical components for 19” enclosures and of rotary switches.

Elma Electronic AG is under the current strategy responsible to design, develope and manufacture all 19” components for the Elma group companies as well as for a wide network of long-term distribution partners. Elma Electronic AG also offers integrated system platforms and backplanes within its home market Switzerland.

It is also the center of competence for rotary components such as switches and knobs as well as LED-arrays. Its leading position for demanding applications such as two way radio channel selector switches and others is a result of continous investments in product development and automation.

The comprehensive standard product line is backed up by extensive customization options. The production facility in Wetzion includes an aluminium surface treatment plant which is also open and well received to third party companies. A production site in Timisoara, Romania is running under Elma Switzerlands full responsibility and utilized for low cost production where volume and delivery time allows. [ top ]

Elma Trenew

Founded in 1987, today's Elma Trenew Electronic GmbH is one of the leading solution providers and manufacturer in the field of Packaging Systems and Backplanes.

Our standard product portfolio includes all relevant PICMG and VITA specifications like MicroTCA, AdvancedTCA, CompactPCI, VME, VME64x and VITA 31, VITA 41 / VXS, and VITA 46 / VPX. Our application engineers develop custom Backplanes and System Platforms to meet your specifications, from initial concept to finished product. These designs serve a wide array of industries including, but not limited to aerospace, military, industrial automation, telecommunications, medical, and high-performance computers.

By using the latest CAD tools and manufacturing technology we insure the highest level of performance and quality in the industry. The solid background in simulations and measurements, allows us to cover all elements of High-End designing to offer all qualified support from the concept phase to the product solution. [ top ]

Elma France

Founded in 2000, Elma Electronic France SA is the solution partner of choice for all French companies working in the high-end electronics, telecom, defense, transportation and system solutions industry. Our sales and engineering team can provide you with state of the art design for mechanical packaging solutions, design of standard and fully customized backplane and, if required, we can fully integrate them in our French facility into complete, turn key, functional system's. We take care of the design, logistics, assembly and test freeing the customer to concentrate on the area of their key expertise. Our sales team can fully support your project from 'cradle to grave'. Supported by our manufacturing facilities in the USA, Switzerland, Germany, UK and Romania we believe we have the capability to provide any solution for any scenario.

Elma Electronic UK

Elma Electronic UK Ltd is the solution partner of choice for all British companies working in the high-end electronics, telecom, and system solutions industry. Our sales and engineering team can provide you with state of the art design for mechanical packaging solutions, design of standard and fully customised backplanes and, if required, we can fully integrate them into complete, turn key, functional systems. We take care of the design, logistics, assembly and test, enabling the customer to concentrate on their particular area of expertise.

Founded in January 2000, Elma UK was another expansion by parent company Elma AG. With a number of staff in disciplines including mechanical engineering, electronics and assembly, we can fully support your project from 'cradle to grave'. Supported by two 3D design systems - Pro-Engineer and Solid Designer - as well as our design facilities in the USA, Switzerland, Germany and Romania we believe we have the capability to provide any solution for any scenario. Our new purpose built operation in Bedford enables us to give excellent delivery times and shortens the time to market.

In October 2005 Elma acquired Mektron Systems Ltd. Mektron Systems is an approved supplier to many major international blue chip commercial and defence companies and has extensive involvement in numerous major defence programs. The company has full BS EN ISO 9001/2000 accreditation and is a recognised authority on rugged COTS system enclosures, integration technology, thermal management and EMC expertise. Mektron also boasts its own EMC pre-compliance test facility.

The ability to provide innovative engineering solutions enabling our customers to safely deploy COTS hardware in hostile and onerous operating conditions, such as those frequently seen in defence/military applications, is a vital part of our successful business model.

Ensuring maximum partnership benefits to our customers the company's multifaceted defence engineering design capabilities cover mechanical, electrical, electronic, transmission line/backplane, flexi-rigid circuit, thermal management, EMC, TEMPEST, power, 'systems engineering' and I/O interconnection schemes. We also undertake hardware and operating system software integration and qualification/type approval testing. [ top ]

Elma Israel

Elma Electronic Israel Ltd is the solution partner of choice for all Israelian companies working in the high-end electronics, telecom, internet access, web applications and system solutions industry. Our strong sales and engineering team can provide you with state of the art design for mechanical packaging solutions, design of standard and fully customized backplanes and, if required, we can fully integrate them into complete, turn key, functional system. We take care of the design, logistics, assembly and test freeing the customer to concentrate on the area of their key expertise.

History
Founded in 1997 as Printech Electronics Ltd by Moshe Eisenkraft and Dov Matalon to provide the Israelian telecom and electronics market with high-end printed circuit boards, backplanes, mechanical accessories and electro-mechanical components. In July 2000 the company was integrated into the international company Elma Electronic AG. [ top ]

Elma Romania

Elma Electronic Romania SRL is the main design centre for the Elma Group. Our engineering team, made up of 13 high-qualified engineers in electronics and mechanics, based on a large experience in their fields, is able to provide the ultimate solutions to any customer request. Whether is about standard or fully customized backplanes, active peripheral or processor cards we provide state of the art PCB designs giving to the customers the best solutions for their products. In addition we can handle any level of complexity in mechanical design for system platforms.

History
Founded in 1997 as the design centre for Trenew Electronic GmbH, today’s Elma Trenew Electronic GmbH, the Romanian company has been acquired by Elma Group in January 2001. Our high level of expertise is a guaranty for the success of the Elma products. The latest developments in the Romanian economy give us the perspective of playing an important role on the local market as supplier of integrated systems and components in the next years. For that reason, we build, in addition to the engineering team, a local sales force in order to use any opportunity on the market. [ top ]

Elma China

Elma Singapore