1984

  • Lohja Microelectronics founded to support Lohja Corporation's electroluminescent display development production in the town of Lohja in southern Finland
1990

  • Lohja Microelectronics unit was incorporated as Elcoteq Oy Ab
1991

  • Management Buy-Out
1992

  • Pilot production started in Tallinn, Estonia
1993

  • AS Elcoteq Tallinn was established as a legal entity in Estonia
  • Printeq-Piirilevyt Oy (Printed Circuit Board production) was established
1994

  • Oy Jorvas Partners Ab was acquired near Helsinki, Finland
  • ABB Industry's electronics assembly factory was acquired in Helsinki, Finland
1995

  • New Gunnarla plant in Lohja, Finland started production
  • New Printeq factory started production in Salo, Finland
1996

  • Jorvas factory was closed
  • Capacity in Tallinn was nearly tripled
  • Phone Repair Center started in Tallinn
1997

  • First GSM phone box-build project in the EMS industry started with Ericsson in Tallinn, Estonia
  • Elcoteq Deutschland GmbH was established
  • Expansion of the Tallinn factory
  • Pilot production in St. Petersburg, Russia
  • Listing on the Helsinki Stock Exchange
1998

  • Printeq operation was sold
  • New Technology Services Unit was set up
  • Elcoteq acquired ABB Transmit PCB operations in Vaasa, Finland
  • Elcoteq acquired Kone Corporation's elevator electronics operations in Hyvinkää, Finland
  • Purchase office was established in Tokyo, Japan
  • New plant was built in Pécs, Hungary
  • Building of a new plant started in Monterrey, Mexico
  • Elcoteq and Elektrobit sign co-operation deal covering product and technology development
1999

  • Mexican plant in Monterrey started operation
  • Purchase of Dongguan plant in China
  • Elcoteq Denmark was established
2000

  • Acquisition of Stephan Elektronik in Überlingen, Germany, including operations in Switzerland and Poland
  • Acquistion on NDP's plant in Pécs, Hungary
  • Elcoteq Beijing Electronics was established in China
  • Building of second Elcoteq plant started in Tallinn, Estonia
  • Elcoteq decided to build a new plant in Wroclaw, Poland
2001

  • Elcoteq divided its business into three business areas: Terminal Products, Communications Network Equipment and Industrial Electronics
  • Acquisition of ABB electronics unit in Switzerland
  • Elcoteq decides to merge Helsinki and Lohja plants in Finland
  • Elcoteq acquires mechanical engineering unit of Adtranz Schweiz
  • Elcoteq decided to build new plant in Beijing, China
2002

  • Elcoteq and Aspocomp established technology development company Imbera Electronics Oy
  • Elcoteq aqcuired three-fourths of the capacity of the Benefon R&D Center into Elcoteq's wholly-owned subsidiary Elcoteq Design Center Oy
  • Refined strategy was announced in August
  • Elcoteq acquired IBM's 70% ownership of GKI in China
2003

  • Acquisition of NPI services company NPRC, Inc. in USA
  • Elcoteq aqcuired Marconi's electronics manufacturing in Offenburg
  • Acquisition of 20 percent of ISIS surface mounting
  • Elcoteq and Cellon enter into cooperation agreement
  • Elcoteq to acquire the manufacturing operations of Tellabs Espoo, Finland
2004

  • Divestment of Industrial Electronics business area
  • Decision to build a new plant in St. Petersburg, Russia
  • Elcoteq decided to open manufacturing operations in India and Brazil
  • Elcoteq opened an international office in Zug, Switzerland
  • Elcoteq's Board of Directors proposed to a General Meeting of shareholders that Elcoteq be converted into a European Company (Societas Europaea, SE)
  • Elcoteq started manufacturing operations in Manaus, Brazil
  • Elcoteq acquired a manufacturing facility from Thomson in Juarez, Mexico
2005

  • Plant inauguration in Bangalore, India
  • Geographical Area Europe’s head office opened in Budapest, Hungary
  • Elcoteq celebrated 10th anniversary of the Gunnarla plant in Lohja, Finland
  • Elcoteq converted into a European Company (Societas Europaea, SE)
  • Plant inauguration in St. Petersburg, Russia

2006

  • Elcoteq acquired the operations of Andrew’s manufacturing unit in Arad, Romania
  • The Board of Directors resolved to propose to the Annual General Meeting of March 22, 2007 that the company’s domicile be transferred to Luxembourg
  • Elcoteq initiated an action plan to improve its competitiveness and profitability

2007

  • Elcoteq continued to balance its customer base
  • The company fell significantly short of its financial targets
  • The company set its sights on expanding its service offering and being the leading provider of integrated electronic manufacturing services
  • The Annual General Meeting approved the transfer of domicile to Luxembourg
  • Action plans continued and led to the termination of production at the plants in Lohja, Finland and Juárez, Mexico, and the company announced its plans to divest its operations in Germany and St. Petersburg

2008

  • Elcoteq was redomiciled to Luxembourg effective January 1, 2008
  • Elcoteq adopted a new organization model
  • The new business areas are: Personal Communications, Home Communications and Communications Networks