Presenting a Company

Elton is a Russian joint stock company (JSC) specializing in the development and manufacturing of asymmetric electro-chemical capacitors. Elton is one of the world leaders in this field. Its products are used not only in Russia, but in some western European countries and the United States.

Elton’s main milestones are the following:

1993 The company was established and a pilot production of electrochemical capacitors started.

1995 The manufacturing and marketing of Elton’s products in Russia

began.

1998 The capacitors penetrated into the North American market. Capacitors were tested by several US companies.

1999 Elton started to supply capacitors for trucks and passenger vehicles to the USA.

2000 Kold Ban International (KBI), the company’s official distributor in the USA, started sales of Elton products under the KAPower trademark.

2004 -2008 Elton was fully engaged into the development and manufacturing of electrochemical capacitors both in Russia and the USA.

2009 Elton granted a license to SAFT Company for the manufacturing and marketing of the capacitors in the countries of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Elton, JSC, has conducted a number of tests of the locomotive’s diesel engine starting capacitor system. Three diesel locomotives equipped with a diesel engine capacitor starting system have been tested for five months at the Insk station (Novosibirsk) of the West Siberian railway. In the engine driver’s cabin a control console was set up to monitor the voltage of the standard battery and capacitor modules. The results of the tests demonstrated that the annual saving was of about 420 million rubles. This fact has excited great interest of the railway men to the product developed by Elton. The economic effect from the introduction of the starting capacitor system during the entire service life of the diesel locomotive shall be over 1.7 million rubles. Taking into account the fact that the Russian railways have a fleet of about 6,000 shunting diesel locomotives, the annual economic effect can come to over 420 million rubles.