The company was founded 1977 in Geneva as Eltec Instruments SA and started its operation 1979 in Wallisellen, Zurich, as a distributor and service center for Eltec Instruments, Inc., selling Pyroelectric Detectors and Megaohm, Gigaohm and Teraohm Resistors and offering customer support and new product design capacities, as it still does today.