ELTRA GmbH joins Verder Group

ELTRA GmbH joins Verder Group

The Verder Group, a German-Dutch family-owned technology business has recently added ELTRA GmbH to its laboratory division. Founded in 1981, Eltra is a leading manufacturer of elemental analysers and achieved a turnover of 11 million Euros last year. At their headquarters near Duesseldorf, ELTRA employs 35 highly qualified people who are in charge of development, final assembly and testing of the analysers. ELTRA also has a production site in Bucharest, Romania, with 40 employees.

“We are particularly happy that the founder and Managing Director of ELTRA, Mr Yiannakis Polemitis, will stay in the management in the coming years and will join us in advancing ELTRA”, says Andries Verder, managing partner of the Verder Group.

As part of the Verder laboratory division, ELTRA particularly profits from the international sales and marketing strength of the group with activities in more than 80 countries. Dr. Juergen Pankratz, head of the laboratory division and managing Director of RETSCH GmbH in Haan (near Duesseldorf) will be in charge of the newly acquired company. The premises and the brand name ELTRA will be kept.

“As member of the Verder Group we will have more resources at our disposal for the advancement of our products and our company and we will be able to invest specifically in further growth”, says ELTRA’ s Managing Director Yiannakis Polemitis.