HANNOVER MESSE - Show Report
	Established 60 years ago, Hannover Messe is ranked as the leading international shop window for industrial technologies, materials and product ideas. This April, 200.000 visitors visited 5.100 exhibitors from over 60 different nations.   Hannover Messe is a combination of 10 different trade fairs, who´s joint theme was energy, automation, future technology and young engineering talent.   Over...	Read more

Eldon avoids International Incident!
	You may remember in the last newsletter our article about the Utrecht Fair in Holland, and that customers had a chance to win a Balloon trip if they guessed the secret combination to a 4 digit pin code on the door of an ICT enclosure.   The five lucky winners with their companion and our Dutch sales team set off in one of Europe’s biggest hot air balloons on a beautiful Saturday evening for...	Read more

Major European Enclosure Manufacturer, ELDON, sets up operations in India
	Eldon has been manufacturing enclosures for the Power, Industrial and Data & Telecom market since 1922, and is pleased to announce the opening of its latest sales and manufacturing operation in India.   Formed by Karin & Josef Randholm in their hometown of Nassjo Sweden, Eldon is the Swedish word for “devices for electricity”, which seems highly appropriate for a company manufacturing...	Read more

The Flying Dutchman
	Is it a Ghost or is real? According to folklore The Flying Dutchman is a ghost ship that can never go home, although various different accounts of the origin are all reported to be "true".   The name may have come from George Barrington´s Voyage to Botany Bay (1795) about a Dutch Man of War lost off the Cape of Good Hope, or it could have been about Captain Bernard Fokke who´s uncanny speeds...	Read more

Life´s a ball at Eldon
	Well perhaps not for everyone, but Joanna Thunholm certainly thinks so!   Joanna has been playing volleyball for 19 years, beach volleyball for 10 years, and now has Eldon as her official sponsor.  Joanna joined Eldon´s marketing department in Sweden, in February 2007.   Volleyball was developed in the USA in 1895 by Sports Instructor William G. Morgan (first played on beaches in Santa Monica...	Read more

City Cats for London
	A Brisbane shipbuilder is constructing six ferries to operate on the Thames River in London – within the powering system of the vessels, Eldon enclosures are utilized, supplied by Eldon agent in Australia, NHP The 38mtr catamaran ferries, capable of carrying 220 passengers and travelling at 27 knots, are being built by Brisbane Ship Construction (BSC) and will form the centrepiece of a dramatic...	Read more

Not exactly a Slow Boat to China (but something close)
	A recent project with our agent in Canada (Ralston Metal Products) had "complicated" written all over it, but in the end it was so successful they stand a big chance in winning the next stage.   Ralston via an agent in the US won a project to supply stainless steel enclosures to CODELCO, the state owned mining company in Chile.   The enclosures were originally manufactured at Eldon´s...	Read more

NEW! Heavy Duty Mounting Brackets, EDWB

The installed weight in IT-racks is increasing rapidly. Servers are becoming larger and heavier and therefore the maximum load carrying capacity of the rack becomes more essential. Next to this, there is also an increasing need for cable space. To accommodate both these requirements, Eldon has developed a new Heavy Duty Mounting Bracket (EDWB). This new mounting bracket increases the maximum... Read more

NEW! Cold Air Guide, EDAG

Today’s generation of servers become more and more powerful. A side effect of this development is that they generate more heat than ever before. Therefore adequate cooling is essential to keep your systems online. One of the most effective ways to provide cooling is by guiding a flow of cold air through the front door of the rack towards the front of the servers. A big part of this airflow is... Read more

NEW! Office Rack, EOR

Lots of companies do not have a separate room for their networking equipment. Sometimes it’s even necessary to have this equipment located in the office close to the desks. For these requirements Eldon introduces a new solution the Eldon Office Rack (EOR).   The Office Rack is the latest design in the popular ElRack® range available in heights of 12U (600mm high) and 16U (800mm high). Standard... Read more