Established in 1951, Elecon Engineering Company Ltd of Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India, pioneered the manufacture of material handling equipment in India. In more than five decades, Elecon has designed and implemented several landmark projects in India as well as abroad. From a modest start of design and manufacture of Elevators and Conveyors from which incidently, the company derives its corporate identity. viz. "Elecon". Elecon has expertise in providing customised gear boxes for Steel Mills, High Speed Turbines, Sugar Mills, Marine vessels, Coast Guard Ships, Plastic Extrusions, Antena Drives and for Satellites in the Indian Space Programme.