Finlux
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Finlux was a Finnish brand of
History
The origins of Finlux were in the Iskumetalli Oy company in Lohja, producer of industrial pumps, that in 1948 started to produce tube radio receivers under license from the swedish company Luxor and in 1958 the first television receivers. In 1964, Iskumetalli was incorporated in the Lohja industrial group, and in 1971, the Luxor license agreement expired and was officially introduced the Finlux brand, which was a blend word of "Finlandia" and "Luxor"; this was the first time that Finlux had been used as a company name. In 1972, Finlux unveiled his first colour TV set, called Finlux Peacock, developed by engineer Martti Ahava, which in 1974 was joined by the Colibri model.
In 1977, alongside the consumer electronics division, Lohja started manufacturing Electroluminescence (EL) displays after purchasing the development project, headed by Dr. Tuomo Suntola. The EL displays were manufactured using the atomic layer deposition (ALD) process developed in the project, and were marketed also with the Finlux brand.
In 1978, Finlux introduced the Finlux OBC (Optimum Brightness Contrast) line of colour TVs, developed by engineer Heikki Tupala, which was one of the most successful products of the Finnish company.
In 1979, Lohja acquired another Finnish TV manufacturer, Asa Radio Oy in Turku, which had been manufacturing radio receivers and TV sets since 1927. At that time the consumer electronics division of the Lohja group produced annually 170.000 TV sets with the Finlux and ASA brand names.
In 1991, the EL manufacturing was sold to
In 1992, Finlux TV manufacturing was sold to Nokia, which already was manufacturing TV sets with brands Salora, Schaub-Lorenz and Oceanic.
In 1996, Nokia sold all its TV factories and brand names to
A new company under the Finlux Oy name, owned by Norwegian company Otrum Electronics, was formed to continue TV manufacturing. However, they had serious troubles with their product line, which was based on CRT TVs. The market had swung to flat panel TVs and Finlux failed to switch in time. With 50 million euros in debt, the company filed for bankruptcy in September 2005.
In 2006, the Turkish electronics company
Sponsorship
Finlux was the main shirt sponsor for the Swedish team Hammarby 2008–2009.
Finlux sponsored
References
- ^ Planar Systems, Inc. (2008). "Company History". Archived from the original on 2008-02-10. Retrieved 2008-02-07.