Elga

Our reliable welding filler metals for demanding applications deliver exceptional performance, in some of the world’s most rugged and extreme environments. We keep you working, with welding consumables that meet your demanding workplace.
Our products support all welding processes and applications with all types of base materials. In addition to standard welding consumables, we also create custom solutions to meet specific customer needs.

Welcome to the Elga
world of welding

Our mission is to provide global and local industries with maximum uptime and excellent weld quality no matter how exacting or demanding the circumstances. We seek new methods, take on any challenge and leave no stone unturned until we find the perfect solution. That’s why welding professionals around the world trust us to tackle any application, wherever welding takes them.

Our goal is to keep on working hard to earn that trust, today and tomorrow, as a major supplier and part of global ITW Welding.

80 YEARS OF ELGA WELDING HISTORY

For more than 80 years Elga has been manufacturing welding filler metals. Today Elga is one of the big­gest players in the European welding consumables business.

Welcome to the Elga
world of welding

It is 1938 in Gothenburg, Sweden when Carl Alfredson, a Swedish engineer, inventor and businessman dedicates his 20 years of welding experience to start his own company: AB El & Gassvetsning, our future Elga® brand, that will expand into the next century and millennium, keeping with consistent quality over the years.

As early as in the 1940s Elga’s first coated electrodes are produced, creating a limited range that shortly becomes one of the market leaders.

The 1950s heralds a move to Hedefors, a new production plant in Sweden, as an outcome of further expansion of Elga products in the post-war period of growing industrial activity.

Already in the 1960s, Elga creates a perfect match with Miller Electric, together being pioneers in promoting both MIG and TIG methods in Sweden.

In the 1980s a new location in Partille, Sweden is opened expanding production with an even wider range of Elga products, targeting new sectors. Electrodes dedicated to the off-shore sector and CROMAROD®, Elga’s first range of stainless-steel electrodes. Shortly after, welding wires are introduced to Elga range of products.

The new Millennium brings with it new opportunities, (2000) Elga is acquired by (ITW) Illinois Tool Works, an American giant, and becomes part of the ITW Welding portfolio, benefiting from common knowledge and experience. Other well-known welding brands of ITW – Miller® Electric, Hobart®, Bernard® and Tregaskiss® complement the full range of not only welding consumables, but also equipment, offering global solutions and solid performance.

Acquisition of a German factory in Altleiningen, Drahtzug Stein GmbH + Co. KG, best known for its seamless cored wires, MEGAFIL®, further enriches Elga’s already wide product range.

At the same time, the access to our own R&D facilities and laboratories around the world, with focused and dedicated efforts, shared knowledge, passion and the commitment result in launching new products.

We are aware that the development of good filler metals take time. Each day our products and formulas are maintained, improved and tested in laboratories at various stages, aiming to meet the most rigorous requirements.

Today under the Elga brand we offer an extensive range of high-quality welding filler metals, designed, developed and manufactured to satisfy the most demanding sectors, industries and segments.

ITW WELDING

Illinois Tool Works Inc (ITW) is a Chicago based company manufacturing products and equipment for a wide range of industries: construction, general, automotive, food and beverage industries, industrial capital goods, paper products, consumer durables and electronics. The company has operations in 57 countries that employ more than 50,000 women and men who adhere to the highest ethical standards. For investor relations, business units and more general information about Illinois Tool Works Inc. please visit our corporate website on www.itw.com.

ITW’s Welding segment designs and manufactures value-added equipment and specialty consumables with leading technology for a variety of industrial applications, serving an array of end markets where weld quality is a critical factor. ITW’s industry-leading welding solutions are differentiated by innovative technology designed to meet the needs of today’s users with specific focus on productivity, quality, and ease of use behind very strong brands. ITW Welding also continues to address critical industry issues such as more stringent regulatory requirements and the need to quickly and effectively train new welders.

Global solutions – solid performance

Our world is all about welding. That is why our welding and heating solutions are designed with, by and for welders and developed in response to their demands. And it is why our industry-leading brands provide cost-effective solutions with outstanding reliability and uncompromising performance – wherever welding takes you.

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