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Brasil · est. 1952 · Mogi das Cruzes (São Paulo)
Elgin is a Brazilian home appliances and electronics company founded in 1952 in Mogi das Cruzes, in the state of São Paulo, and known for generations of Brazilians for its sewing machines before diversifying. The Elgin Group, which presents itself as “proudly Brazilian” and with more than seventy years of history, today encompasses air conditioning, commercial refrigeration, small appliances, audio and video, solar energy and, since the purchase of Bematech Hardware in 2019 for 25 million reais, thermal printers for commerce.
In air conditioning, Elgin is one of the national reference brands alongside Springer and Consul: window units, hi-wall splits, cassettes and VRF systems that are sold through a wide technical assistance network across the country. For Frostalgia it is of interest as an example of a local manufacturer that, like many in Europe, started in another sector and ended up living off the cold.
The year of Elgin's entry into air conditioning, the founders' names, the existence of a plant in Manaus and the origin in sewing machines (general knowledge not corroborated) could not be confirmed.
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