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70 YEARS of INNOVATION Elan Inventa, D.O.O Elan Inventa 70 YEARS OF INNOVATION Elan Inventa, d.o.o. Begunje 1 4275 Begunje na Gorenjskem Slovenija T +386 4 53 51 333 F +386 4 53 51 107 [email protected] www.elan-inventa.si This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of Elan. Conceived of by Rudi Finžgar in Slovenia in 1945, Elan has grown over the past seven decades from its beginnings as a small ski producing workshop into a specialty manufacturing company that is the pride of it’s homeland and is highly regarded around the world. Since its early days, Elan has been known as a pioneer of innovations that push the boundaries of expectation in its chosen fields. Today, the belief that the development of progressive design and advanced technologies provides the surest path to the creation of superior products remains our core principle. Our Begunje facility manufactures skis, snowboards, sailboats, and sports equipment, as well as wind turbines for the production of clean electrical energy. OUR SUCCESS IN RECENT LARGE PROJECTS HAS MADE US BELIEVE THAT WE CAN DO MUCH MORE Over the last decade, countless athletes, teams as well as individuals, have written their name down in history. Elan Inventa has been standing in the background of these achievements, silent but proud, watching athletes slam the ball through the rim or into the net and spectators jump on the grandstands, most of them oblivious of the company that has provided them with the equipment that has made it all possible. Recently, the company provided equipment for facilities hosting important sports events, including the World Women’s Handball Championships in Brasil in 2011 and Serbia in 2013, World Handball Championships in Spain in 2013 and Quatar in 2015 and the European Basketball Championships in Slovenia in 2014. In 2013 the company landed its first major project in the highly demanding German market. For the Leipziger Messe, we developed an innovative telescopic seating system called TransFlex. After Leipzig, the state- Tax Nr.: SI61182494 Reg Nr.: 5436729 BANKA KOPER d.d. TRR: SI56101000053229618 Swift: BAKOSI2X Podjetje je registrirano pri okrožnem sodišču v Ljubljani, št. vložka 1/01591/00, matična številka 5436729, osnovni kapital 346.403,85 EUR. of-the-art mobile telescopic seating system TransFlex was installed in another German town, Emden, in a project worth more than half a million euro. Scandinavia is without doubt one of Elan Inventa’s most important markets. In 2014 the company supplied telescopic seating systems for UMEA SLIPERIET, NORRKOPING ABY, NORRKOPING VIKTORIANSKOLA, ESKILSTUNA CONCERT and SKELLEFTEÅ arenas in Sweden, as well as LYNGBY and VUC FYN in Denmark. The leading Qatar construction company, has awarded Elan Inventa with a Certificate of Appreciation for the outstanding work done at the Qatar Handball Association Complex of Doha, which hosted Men’s World Handball Championship in January 2015. The Qatar project is by far the largest and highest-risk project of Elan Inventa. More than 70 large shipping containers of material, installation deadline more than 6 months, extremely demanding climatic conditions, total order value: 4.8 million euro. These are some facts that tell everything and make us believe that we can do much more. ˃˃˃ ELAN SINCE 1945 1945 24 September - Elan co-operative is founded. Produces first wooden skis with no edges. In Cerkno 12 enthusiasts make 15 to 20 pairs of skis a day. 1946 Elan opens its first store. 1949 Starts production of racing shells. 1950 Production facility burns down almost entirely. Produces the first sample of skis for foreign markets (Belgium). 1955 THE RACKET EPISODE Sells 350,000 badminton rackets in only two years. Sixteen sports halls equipped in the territory of SFR Yugoslavia. 1961 Patents metal skis. 1963 Produces gymnastics apparatuses for the EC in Belgrade. 1964 Starts serial production of fibreglass boats. Elan’s competition skis premiere at the Olympic Games in Innsbruck. 1968 Ski jumper Baldur Preiml wins Elan’s first medal at the Grenoble Olympic Games. 1970 Develops a new gymnastics apparatus for the needs of the World Championship in Ljubljana. 1974 First win of the 18-year-old Ingemar Stenmark (slalom, Madonna di Campiglio) First world record to be set on Elan skis (Walter Steiner). 1976 Wins its first international award for quality. Tax Nr.: SI61182494 Reg Nr.: 5436729 BANKA KOPER d.d. TRR: SI56101000053229618 Swift: BAKOSI2X Podjetje je registrirano pri okrožnem sodišču v Ljubljani, št. vložka 1/01591/00, matična številka 5436729, osnovni kapital 346.403,85 EUR. 1977 Opens a production plant at Brnca/Fürnitz, Austria. 1978 Produces its first prototype of a telescopic stand. Manufactures the first Elan glider. Starts production of VW Caddy roofs. Ingemar Stenmark becomes double World Champion in Garmisch- Partenkirchen. 1980 Ingemar Stenmark wins two gold medals at the Olympic Games in Lake Placid. Bojan Križaj wins his first World Cup race in Wengen, Switzerland. 1983 Elan's first glider takes part in the World Championship. Launches its own-brand sportswear program. Elan’s first World Cup downhill win, by Bruno Kernen. 1984 Makes the first larger cruiser sailing yacht. 1988 Elan skis mark the 100th win (Mateja Svet, Kranjska Gora). Starts snowboard production at Brnca/Fürnitz, Austria. 1989 Ingemar Stenmark last, 86th, World Cup win. All on Elan skis. Mateja Svet wins World Champion title in Vail. 1991 Franci Petek wins the title of FIS Ski Jumping World Champion in individual large hill in Val di Fiemme. 1992 Elan 33 and its Croatian crew win the trans-Atlantic sailing rate 'America 500'. Makes the first prototypes of carving skis. 1994 Supplies sports equipment for 50 sports halls in Moscow. 1996 Primož Peterka becomes the winner of the Four Hills Tour. 1997 Primož Peterka wins the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup Overall title. 2002 Presents the Fusion system of revolutionary integrated ski bindings. 2003 Provides sports equipment for the Zlatorog Sports Hall in Celje, a European Handball Championship venue and the first of the company's large-scale projects. 2004 Supplies and installs equipment at three sports halls hosting the European Handball Championship in Slovenia. 2005 Supplies and installs equipment for two Eurobasket sports arenas in Serbia and Montenegro. Rok Benkovič wins the title of Ski Jumping World Champion in Obersdorf, on Elan skis. 2006 Elan presents its WaveFlexTM ski technology. 2008 Supplies and installs equipment for the new sports arena hosting the European Handball Championship in Macedonia. 2009 Supplies and installs equipment for three arenas hosting the World Handball Championship in Croatia. 2011 Supplies and installs equipment for two sports arena hosting the World Handball Championship in Sweden. Elan presents its ground-breaking technology Amphibio*Profile. 2012 Elan is presented with the 'Most Innovative Brand' award, X-AWARD. Tax Nr.: SI61182494 Reg Nr.: 5436729 BANKA KOPER d.d. TRR: SI56101000053229618 Swift: BAKOSI2X Podjetje je registrirano pri okrožnem sodišču v Ljubljani, št. vložka 1/01591/00, matična številka 5436729, osnovni kapital 346.403,85 EUR. 2013 Provides and installs five sports halls in Slovenia hosting Eurobasket 2013. Develops an innovative telescopic stand system, Elan TransFlex, for a sports arena in Leipzig, Germany. Designs Delight, the lightest women’s ski in the world. Elan is again presented with the 'Most Innovative Brand' award, X- AWARD. 2015 The World Handball Championship in Qatar takes place in the halls equipped by Elan. 2015 Introduces new Amphibio 4D ski technology. Tax Nr.: SI61182494 Reg Nr.: 5436729 BANKA KOPER d.d. TRR: SI56101000053229618 Swift: BAKOSI2X Podjetje je registrirano pri okrožnem sodišču v Ljubljani, št. vložka 1/01591/00, matična številka 5436729, osnovni kapital 346.403,85 EUR. .
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