elasto form KG is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. In 1980 the company started imprinting foam balls – today elasto form is one of the biggest and most well-known promotional products suppliers, not only on the German market. The company combines the expertise of a plastic injection moulding firm and customising specialist with the know-how of an experienced importer under one roof. Proximity to the customer, internal training and permanent investments in new technologies are further cornerstones of the company’s success. Three decades of corporate history are certainly reason enough to be proud – and yet the success story of elasto form doesn’t just impress because of how old it is, many other facts stand out and these are underlined by the following figures: The company employs over 300 people at its headquarters in Sulzbach-Rosenberg in South Germany and is thus not only one of the region’s biggest employers, but also regarding the number of employees one of the largest manufacturers of promotional products in Germany. A further 150 staff members are employed at the company’s other locations in eastern Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland, France, Switzerland, Italy as well as in Shanghai, Ningbo and Hong Kong. The company achieves a turnover of around 45 mil. Euros a year. The product assortment encompasses over 1,500 standard articles that can be delivered within short lead-times. There are 20,000 palette storage places in the high-rack warehouse, over 65,000 consignments are dispatched annually. Up to 500,000 parts can be manufactured daily on the 47 injection moulding machines that are available and the customising machines, comprising of 97 printing machines overall manage a capacity of 500,000 parts a day. There’s no doubt about it – elasto form is one of the absolute major players on the European promotional products market.