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Pool mania continues. How to make it more enjoyable at home?

When the great pool building frenzy seemed to be slowly coming to an end, a global pandemic came. With it came a new influx of demand for swimming pools, pumping tanks, and cool home gardens.

No bad land, just bad farmer?

“There is no bad land, just a bad farmer,” is the old saying, and there must be something in it. Anyone who is lucky enough to live in house with a garden or has some arable land and has cultivated it, knows full well that gardening is not just about sowing, planting and harvesting. Irrigation plays a key role in growing crops.

References from the Middle East: We are building in the Kingdom of Jordan

For ELKO EP, the Middle East region has represented a great opportunity for significant strategic cooperation. We are of course speaking about the successful development of a branche in Saudi Arabia. Strong growth on the ground is mainly offered by the fields of intelligent electrical installations and IoT. 

Czech technology will help Egypt

Modern building management, efficient management of energy consumption, careful water management and reduction of emissions - these are the main goals of  the activities to help improve everyday life in Egypt in the coming years. The project, which is being created with the support of the Czech Development Agency, focuses mainly on modern and smart technologies. 

Catalogs for 2021: get catch up with the news!

Pandemics, non-pandemics, the world continues to spin. With technology it is even faster than ever before. That is why at ELKO EP, with the arrival of spring, we bring a whole range of new products, solutions and improvements across the entire breadth of our range, on which we have worked intensively.

For the third time in a row. ELKO EP again amongst the Czech Business Superbrands 2021.

ELKO EP once again found itself on the ranking of Czech "Superbrands". For the third year in a row, the expert jury praised the company's reputation, the quality of its products and its exceptional position on the market - the basic criteria according to which they evaluate the most successful companies in its field in more than 90 countries.

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ELKO EP will open a new franchise in Serbia. Promising region, says owner.

Serbia has become another country in which the Czech company ELKO EP will open a franchise. One of the world's leading manufacturers of electronic devices for home, office and industrial automation wants to strengthen its position in the rapidly developing region of the Balkans.

The ELKO EP ride continues. Newly opened branch in Britain.

ELKO EP will open its fourteenth worldwide branch at the beginning of next year. This time in the United Kingdom - in a country where ELKO EP products are commonly sold, but mainly as relays under OEM licenses (ELKO EP is a European leader in the field of multifunction relays, which it supplies to brands such as Schneider Electric, Eaton, Tyco or Iskra). This time ELKO EP will try to succeed under their own banner. The new branch will be based in Benfleet, near London, and will be run by Graham Lockhart, who has worked with the company in the past.

What unites the Czech Republic, Chaplin and the Kazakh Almaty?

When you drive through the Kazakh countryside, you feel that you have gone back in time a few decades. You pass herdsmen, who watch over the  endless fields of grass under the high mountains. In the broken winding streets of small villages you meet more animals than cars.

The story of the Czech relay that conquered the world

However, this is exactly what ELKO EP has succeeded in doing, launching in the second half of the 1990s with the first multifunctional time relay MFR120. Since then, it has also sold tens of millions of products to the largest players in the market, such as Schneider Electric, Eaton, Tyco, GE, ETI, Iskra and many others.

We are all driven by change

“Honestly, I’m a very annoying person. When I see something, I go for it. Someone can easily throw me out the door a hundred times, but I’ll return the same way through a window or a chimney anyway. I want to do things right, “said Petr Demek three years ago. When he took up the position of production manager at ELKO EP, one of the European leaders in the field of relay manufacturing, intelligent electro installations and increasingly also an innovator in the field of IoT products.

The Bulgarian market is not uniform, but quite dynamic and diverse

"We have not yet fulfilled what we can do," says Miroslav Donchev, who represents ELKO EP in Bulgaria. "And it's true for our team, which is constantly growing and improving. So for a country that has been slightly just among the technological leadership in the past years. But that has been changing lately and Bulgarians love technology, "add the man, who built a solid growing branch in a year and a half. As for numbers, references and know-how.

A touch panel that meets even the most demanding requirements

Presenting  the  10 ”touch panel designed to control the iNELS BUS system using the iHC (iNELS Home Control) application.

ELKO EP is a partner of the FORTUNA:LIGA football League

The league break is over and the football carousel of professional football will start at full speed on Friday. This year's highest competition, the FORTUNA football league, will be unique in many ways. For the first time in the history of independent Czech football, eighteen teams will enter the highest competition. 

miniCU - SMALL, PERFORMANCE AND SAFE

To optimize the solution not only of a hotel room, but also of an apartment, cottage or bungalow, it is enough to only use a single 1-module mini CU3-07M unit crammed with innovations.

We have a new and up-to-date catalogue of Wireless (RF) electro installations for the world

Hotel in Riga in the smart league

The city of Riga with a population of half a million is a port and has the largest airport in the region. And local people support technology, and the whole region is growing relatively dynamically. That was also the reason why the Czech company ELKO EP opened a branch here a year and a half ago.

Connecting and maintaining socket relays has never been easier

Even though we are already in the 21st century, products designed for the 11-pin socket are still frequently sought-after goods, partly due to easy and fast maintenance or installation. In addition, they allow pre-assembly of the sockets, which are suitable for industrial buildings with regards to  the shortened installation time after their delivery to the customer.

Immerse yourself in news from the world of iNELS and ELKO EP

Dear customers,

After a year let us open the gates of our company to you again although this year we cannot meet in person so they are the imaginary gates! But we can show you, at least through the new issue of Highlights 2020 magazine, the news that moves our corporate world this year. We select the most interesting products and ideas for you.

Czech footprint in generous Hermitage

The first thing that breathes on you in St. Petersburg, Russia, will most likely be the cold and the raw wind. But then when you look around, you will see a modern European metropolis in which nothing is spared.

The council doesn't have to be about the stacks of paper

We already know that the world is gradually changing for the better thanks to new technologies. However, you will still find places that have not received much attention in terms of technology. City councils could talk. We ask: how do you imagine the actions of the council?

When ever to start being “really smart”?

Every crisis brings new perspectives. The same is true of the coronavirus pandemic, which has virtually stopped social life across our planet within two months. The streets of usually crowded cities have been emptied, much of the offices have been abandoned, and roads are half empty. We had to start feverishly implementing all of the transformation processes we had been discussing for a long time within a few days. We were fully aware of the strength of the technology we surrounded us. So - really realized?

INELS RF Control wireless drivers now in the glass!

The wireless (RF) range has long been dominated by plastic switches with frames made of materials such as plastic, wood, metal or granite. While these switches are still popular they not always suitable for modern, clean interiors and most importantly - it is not always possible to intervene in finished walls so that we can elevate the appearance of our already built homes to a more elegant space. As a result, the glass switch with the RFGB-20/40 SHARP (with sharp edges) and RFGB220 / 240 ROUND (with rounded edges) markers were added to the switch family in 2020.

Silly time? Make it as comfortable as possible at home.

By no means do we want make light of the situation. The furious coronavirus pandemic has hit our lives hard. We cannot travel, do sports, meet, go out for a beer - in short do the quite ordinary things that make our lives more enjoyable.