EL.P. founded in 1978 as an electronic design office, has then increased its action-ray in the automation processes (therefore also in the mechanics, pneumatics) Nowadays EL.P. produces and markets the "SPHEROX" (projected by us and presented in the exhibition "Index" in Geneve in 1984), electro-pneumatic machines for the realization of round surgical sponges. The advantages of the sponges produced by Spherox consist in that they are ready to use (the square multiply compresses must be folded before use), and the dead bacterias number, after sterilization, in handmade sponges is about 10.000 times higher than the number reached by the production of Spherox. Thanks to their versatility and diffusion (over 80 machines all around the world), our machines are in a market leader position, being the concurrents off of target for productivity or cost. Among our best customers we count: Molnlycke (Sweden), Lohmann (Germany), Johnson & Johnson (UK), Salvadori (Italy), Artsana (Italy), Rico (Ceka Republic), Fesmed (ex DDR), Multigate (Australia). The strength of our machines is that Spherox 1 and 2 have been projected to be easy to maintain and to use, also for people with a low knowledge on electronics and mechanics. This with the aid of a good handbook translated into 5 Languages. Besides on, a complete spare parts set, included in the sale price, allows the customer to be self-sufficient. At the moment a revolutionary continuously variable transmission for cars (CVT) patented in all of the world by us is in an advanced testing phase and a new machine for the production of folded compresses is going to be constructed.