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coMpAnY REpoRT Dish, Antenna and cable Manufacturer ELDTEc, Brazil
c-Band Dishes,
UHF Antennas
and coax cables
for the Domestic
Market
With a production of over 80,000 satellite
dishes a year, this company is one
of the larger antenna manufacturers.
But if you live outside of Brazil, you’ve
probably never heard of this company;
ELDTEC ships exclusively to the domestic
Brazilian market. We wanted to know
why ELDTEC doesn’t export any of their
products and decided to visit them in
the city of Aruja, about 40km from Sao
Paulo.
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Seriously protected:
Entrance to ELDTEc’s
production facility.
So we hopped on bus route 166 that
goes from the Metro Station Arménia
(Linie 1) and travels directly to Aruja.
ELDTEC’s 5000 Sq-m fabrication facility
can be found in the industrial park.
Our company contact is Eliseu Dias
from Technical Support. He is himself a
satellite enthusiast and has six dishes
erected at his home. He explains, “140
employees work here and produce
6,000km (about 3,700 miles) of coaxial
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cable every month.” In addition to mesh
dishes for the C-band, UHF antennas
are also produced that are not only sold
under their own name but are also sold
for private labels as OEM products.
“ELDTEC was founded in 1992 by
Senhor Laerth with just a few employees”,
explains Eliseu Dias about the
company’s history. The first products
were mesh dishes; in 2002 smaller steel
dishes for the Ku-band were added and