Electro-Harmonix Wins Legal Battle To Keep Russian Factory
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Electro-Harmonix has been making electronic sound processors and guitar effect pedals since 1968 when the company was founded by Mike Matthews in NYC. But another side of Electro-Harmonix is their vacuum tube manufacturing.
Electro-Harmonix, one of the largest manufacturer and distributor of vacuum tubes in the world, saved the vacuum tube from eventual extinction when in 1998 they purchased ExpoPul, a Russian factory located in Saratov, Russia. The ExpoPul factory accounts for two-thirds of the world’s production of vacuum tubes and in 2006 Samara Business World sued Electro-Harmonix in a Russian court to try and grab control of the factory. Full Story…