Elso

Within the Schneider Electric SE structure, Elso is the name of a button and switch program and belongs to the product family of installation and building system technology. Elso itself is the abbreviation for Elektroinstallation Sondershausen and refers to a GmbH based in Thuringia. As with many companies in the former GDR, the company's history is quite erratic and shaped by the prevailing political conditions. A short digression: The production of electrotechnical products began in Sondershausen in 1898. At the location of today's ELSO GmbH, an old mill was converted into a watch factory in 1895, in which fuses, lamp sockets and switches were manufactured shortly afterwards. In the years that followed, ownership changed and the number of employees grew to over 1,000 in the meantime. After the Second World War, the company became public property and finally became VEB Kombinat Elektroinstallation Sondershausen in 1970, with over 3000 employees towards the end of the 1980s. After privatization in 1993 by the Scandinavian group Ahlstrom Electrical Accessories, Schneider Electric SE finally took over the company in 1999. Since then, Schneider Electric SE has been operating as an international parent company with its headquarters in Rueil-Malmaison near Paris and whose main focus is on industrial automation and energy management. The group is represented in around 190 countries worldwide and employs over 130,000 people. The German branch is Schneider Electric GmbH and is based in Ratingen. Since 2018, Elso has operated as the German sales and production site of Merten GmbH, which also belongs to the Schneider Group. In the eibabo® shops from eibmarkt® you will find sockets, buttons, timers, device mounts, frames, switches, housings, central plates, rockers, relays and dimmers from the Elso brand. As a reliable, experienced online mail order company that is available in many languages, the eibabo® technology store ships your order quickly and securely to almost every part of the world.