Fast Facts
The Company
Founded in 1971. Invented
touchscreen overlay technology.
Products
Industry-leading
touchscreen product lines:
- Acoustic pulse recognition (APR) touchscreen overlays
- IntelliTouch and
SecureTouch surface-wave touchscreen overlays
- CarrollTouch
infrared touch sensors
- AccuTouch five-wire
and AT4 four-wire resistive touchscreen overlays
- Projected and surface capacitive touchscreen overlays
- LCD and CRT touchmonitors in various form factors
- CRT touchmonitors
with iTouch touch-on-tube surface-wave technology
- All-in-one
touchcomputers
Full line of
touchscreen controllers; software drivers
for popular operating environments, including Windows, Macintosh and Linux; application
development tools.
Elo holds over 50 key
patents on its touch technologies and designs.
Major
Markets and Applications
- Kiosks: point of information, self-service, transaction
- Point-of-sale: restaurant, retail, lodging, self-service systems
- Industrial: process & machine control, test & measurement, security & alarm
- Gaming/entertainment: casino, lottery, bingo, amusement
- Medical/healthcare: equipment, hospital/doctor office system, patient care
- Financial: banking, office automation, point of information
- Transportation: ticket machines, in-vehicle
Employees
Approximately 500 employees
worldwide.
Sales
Products sold internationally
through direct sales offices, distributors and manufacturers' representatives.
Although Elo does not release sales revenue publicly, Elo is
the world's largest-revenue touch products company.
Facilities
R&D and manufacturing
facilities in Menlo Park, California;
Kessel-Lo, Belgium; Yokohama, Japan; and Su Zhou, China.
Corporate
headquarters in Menlo Park, California; European headquarters in
Kessel-Lo, Belgium; Latin American headquarters in Miami,
Florida; and Asian headquarters in Yokohama, Japan.
Executives
- Mark
Mendenhall - President
- Luc Mergeay - Vice President, EMEA, ANZ, ASEAN
- Dennis
Gilroy - Chief Financial Officer
- Steven
Abramovich - Vice President, The Americas, Sales & Global
Marketing
- Hide Yamajo - Managing Director, Touch Panel Systems
Japan
- Ken North - Director, Engineering and Technology
- Marianne Baker - Director, Human Resources
- Robert A. De Renzi - Global Director, Quality
- Greg Swistak -
Director, Custom Solutions
- Geoff Walker -
Director, Product Management
- Ravi Narayanan - Senior Global Director, Operations
- Keith Pradhan - Director, Business Development
Timeline
| 1971 |
Elo
founder Dr. Samuel C. Hurst
invents the world's first electronic touch interface. |
| 1974 |
Elo enhances computer touch
system, incorporating transparent surface. |
| 1977 |
Elo develops and patents five-wire
resistive technology - the most popular touchscreen technology in use today. |
| 1986 |
Elo becomes a
wholly owned
subsidiary of Raychem Corporation. |
| 1987 |
Elo launches the IntelliTouch
product line, based on innovative surface-wave technology. |
| 1987 |
Elo
launches first touchscreen driver software for DOS, ELODEV. |
| 1989 |
Elo
introduces world's first mouse emulation driver, MonitorMouse,
for DOS and Microsoft Windows 2.0. Implementation of touch
accelerates rapidly. |
| 1991 |
Elo achieves major technical
breakthrough in IntelliTouch product line, doubling speed, resolution, and sensitivity. |
| 1995 |
Elo launches three new products:
high-speed IntelliTouch Ultra with increased resolution, AccuTouch HL with 37 percent
increase in light transmission, and MonitorMice software driver that allows multiple
monitors running Windows to operate from a single PC. |
| 1996 |
Elo celebrates a
quarter century in
the touchscreen business. |
| 1997 |
Elo completes move to new
80,000-square-foot manufacturing facility. |
| 1999 |
Elo introduces breakthrough
development of iTouch "touch-on-tube" surface-wave technology. |
| 1999 |
Elo adds Carroll Touch Systems and
becomes part of Tyco Electronics. |
| 1999 |
Elo
acquires custom touchmonitor manufacturer National
Integration Services, Inc. |
| 1999 |
Elo
acquires the remaining portion of Touch Panel Systems Japan from Daicel Chemical. |
| 2000 |
Elo
adds custom operations from Touchscreen Systems
Limited,
United Kingdom and International Concept, France. |
| 2000 |
Elo
introduces Entuitive touchmonitors "designed for
touch," offering reliable operation, superior
performance, and ease of use and installation. |
| 2001 |
Elo
establishes sales offices in Brazil, Argentina, and Miami to
serve the Central America, Caribbean and Latin American
markets. |
| 2003 |
Elo
adds AT4 four-wire resistive products to its AccuTouch
technology family. |
| 2003 |
Elo
adds projected capacitive to its family of touch technologies, with a choice of DirectTouch or ThruTouch monitor options. |
| 2004 |
Elo
moves headquarters to Menlo Park, California. |
| 2004 |
Elo introduces its first touchcomputer. |
| 2004 |
Elo adds surface capacitive touch technology to portfolio. |
| 2005 |
Elo adds surface capacitive technology to touchmonitor line. |
| 2006 |
Elo adds acoustic pulse recognition (APR) touch technology
to portfolio. |
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