Two forklift trucks with integrated e-l-m fork positioners in a red-brick courtyard

About e-l-m

From garden gates to forklift attachments.

It began as Erling Lund’s machine workshop. Today around 200 people in Denmark and Slovakia design and build attachments for forklift trucks, and about 80 % of what we make is exported.

Our story

We are among the architects of the integrated attachment.

Since 1967 we have developed and built attachments and lifting equipment for forklifts, stackers and reach trucks: fork positioners, rotators, clamps, load stabilisers, push/pull attachments and telescopic forks. If the standard solution is not the right one, we design the one that is.

Most of the range can be delivered integrated, replacing the truck’s own fork carriage, for more residual capacity, a clearer view and safer handling. We sell to truck makers and dealers, and our attachments go to more than 40 countries every year.

Aerial view of the e-l-m head office and factory at Herredsvej 19 in Løsning, surrounded by fields — Herredsvej 19, Løsning: head office and factory

Our ambition is not to be the cheap alternative on the market. Our ambition is to be the best in terms of lost load centre, user-friendliness and design quality.
From our catalogue 2026

From workshop to two factories.

The short version of a long story, in our own milestones.

1967
1967
Erling Lund founds Erling Lunds Maskinfabrik in Kragelund, making garden and driveway gates.
1973
1973
The company becomes e-l-m Kragelund and starts making equipment for forklift trucks.
1986
1986
1,000 m² of new production space in Denmark.
1991
1991
Partnerships with A.T.I.B. in Italy and Loron in the USA.
1993
1993
The first sales offices outside Denmark.
1994
1994
Certified to ISO 9001.
2000
2000
A contract with one of the world’s largest forklift manufacturers: our first OEM customer.
2002
2002
A new strategy, built around customised attachments.
2008
2008
Exports reach 60 %. ISO 14001 for the environment and ISO 3834 for welding follow.
2010
2010
A new logo, and Olav Brøchner takes over the management.
2013
2013
More than 100 employees.
2015
2015
A new production site in Slovakia is started.
2017
2017
e-l-m turns 50.
2018
2018
Our own factory in Prešov, Slovakia opens, with the same certifications as Løsning.
2019
2019
The third expansion of the Slovak plant is completed.
2021
2021
We start making our own hydraulic cylinders, for quality and short delivery times.
2022
2022
e-l-m becomes part of the Swedish technology group Sdiptech.
2023
2023
Michael Lund becomes CEO, and customer-specific attachments get more focus as demand grows.
Today
Today
Around 200 people in Denmark and Slovakia. About 80 % of production is exported.

Two factories, one standard.

We design, cut, weld and assemble our attachments ourselves, in Denmark and in Slovakia, and since 2021 we make our own hydraulic cylinders too. Both sites work to the same certifications.

Løsning, Denmark

Head office, engineering, sales, service and production

Engineers, sales, customer service and spare parts work a few steps from the production floor, so a question from a customer reaches the people who build the answer.

Address: Herredsvej 19, DK-8723 Løsning
Phone: +45 7589 3500

Two plasma torches cutting steel frame plates, sparks flying — Plasma cutting frame plates in Løsning

Prešov, Slovakia

Production

Production in Slovakia started in 2015. Our own factory in Prešov opened in 2018 with the same certifications as the head office, and was extended for the third time in 2019. One welding certificate covers both sites.

Address: Petrovianska 32, 080 01 Prešov
Phone: +421 915 982 318

Certified since 1994.

Quality, environment and welding are certified by LRQA. The welding certificate covers Løsning and Prešov alike.

ISO 9001:2015Since 1994
Quality management
Development, manufacture, sales, service and repair of attachments for forklift trucks.
ISO 14001:2015Since 2008
Environmental management
The same scope, from the choice of materials to manufacture and distribution.
ISO 3834-2:2021Since 2006
Welding quality
Comprehensive quality requirements for fusion welding, for both factories.

Page 4 of the e-l-m catalogue 2026 with the LRQA certificates for ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 — The certificates in our catalogue 2026, p. 4

Quality: Extremely high quality, intelligent design and maximum flexibility. Our attachments are built to a safety factor of 4.5–5.8 as standard, where CE marking asks for 3, and to the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC.
Environment: We take the environment into account from the first drawing: the choice of raw materials in design, as little pollution as possible in manufacturing, and the greatest possible safety for the people who make it.
Working environment: A top priority. Every e-l-m product is made with the greatest possible consideration for our employees.

Part of Sdiptech.

Since 2022 e-l-m has been part of the Swedish technology group Sdiptech, which acquires and develops companies with solutions for more sustainable, efficient and safe societies. Sdiptech works decentrally: business decisions are made in its companies, closest to the customers.

sdiptech.se

Talk to the people who build it.

Herredsvej 19, DK-8723 Løsning. Monday to Thursday 7.30–16.00, Friday 7.30–15.30.

Catalogue 2026