NPO ELSIB

NPO "ELSIB" OAO (Russian: НПО "ЭЛСИБ" ОАО) (ELSIB Research and Production Association Open Joint Stock Company) is a machine building company involved in the research, production and design of electric generators and large machines for metallurgy.

The company has three main production segments: turbogenerators and hydroelectric generators; asynchronous motors and frequency converters, as well as other equipment, such as drives of the wheel and excitation systems.

[2] Most of the company's sales go to domestic customers in industries such as oil and gas, chemical, electric and thermal power transportation, coal and metallurgy.

[3] In 2008, NPO ELSIB was the largest company of Novosibirsk Oblast receiving foreign investment.

NPO ELSIB's history dates back to the 1950s, when it was founded as the "Novosibirsk turbogenerator plant."

President of Germany Richard von Weizsäcker and director of Sibelektrotyazhmash Vladimir Shalimov (right) near the entrance to the plant in 1987.