Private company

EI Niš

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Serbian company

Ei Niš (full legal name: Holding-Korporacija Elektronska industrija a.d. Niš) or Electronics Industry Niš, is a holding company with headquarters in Niš, Serbia. The company has operated from 1948 until it declared bankruptcy in 2016.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1948Founded1
  • Industryelectronics1
  • HeadquartersNiš1
  • Websitewww.eicorp.rs
  • Legal formjoint-stock company1
Ei Holding Nis
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Ei Niš (full legal name: Holding-Korporacija Elektronska industrija a.d. Niš) or Electronics Industry Niš, is a holding company with headquarters in Niš, Serbia. The company has operated from 1948 until it declared bankruptcy in 2016.2

The story

It originated in 1948 from the foundation of the Institute for the Production of Radio Sets and X-ray Machines, "RR Niš." In the 1970s and 1980s it was one of the greatest Yugoslavian companies employing over 10 thousand people. However, during the 1990s most of the company business collapsed, due to the war in Yugoslavia, lack of investing in research and sanctions the country was facing.

During the 2000s, the company manufactured acoustic equipment, electronic tubes including cathode-ray tubes, printed plates, electronic machine elements, hydraulics, pneumatics, appliances, air-conditioners, medical equipment, roentgen machines, TV sets, radio receivers, and semiconductors. It was one of the few remaining makers of electronic vacuum tubes.

In 2016, after decades of insolvency, it declared bankruptcy before regional Business Court.

Elektronska Industrija Niš works in partnership with other European companies, such as Alcatel (telephony), Honeywell, Bull, Silicon graphics (computers), Sagem, Siemens, Hellige, or even ITT or Philips.

From Wikipedia’s article on Ei Niš, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Products and brands

  • medical equipment

Listed on Wikidata.1

Operations

The most successful period of business was from 1965 to 1980. At that time, EI had plants in Nis, Belgrade, Svrljig, Žitoraža, Aleksinac, Đevđelia (Macedonia), Serbia (Croatia), about 50 factories with 28,000 workers and an annual gross product of about 700 million dollars. At that time, the electronic industry had a large range of consumer products for domestic needs, the military and export. Appliances and devices were produced in large series: radios, loudspeakers, amplifiers, sound systems, computers, electric meters, washing machines, dishwashers, ordinary irons, televisions, telephones, telephone exchanges, HF devices, radio stations, railway signaling, traffic lights and accompanying equipment, special purpose devices for the needs of the army and militia, printed electronic circuits, industrial electronics, auto electronics, X-ray devices, medical devices, color cathode ray tubes, electronic tubes, air conditioners, cardboard packaging, plastic goods, ferromagnetic materials, resistors, capacitors, mechanical parts of devices, semiconductor elements.

Ei had spread plants into all Yugoslav republics and managed to develop full production process, most of all, semiconductor production.

The subsidiaries that have operated within the holding company Ei under various names and in various organizational forms are:

EI Acoustics Svrjig

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EI Machine Shop Nis

EI Household Appliances Nis

EI Auto Service Nis

EI Beokom Belgrade

EI VEP Nis (or EI Vakum Electronic Products Nis)

EI VF Zemun (later privatized to "VF Holding" AD)

EI Ekos Eds Nis

EI Ekos Nis

EI Exim Belgrade

EI Expocom Belgrade

EI Elbas Zemun

EI Electromedicine Nis

EI Electrical Products Nis

EI Elkom Zemun (or EI Avala Zemun)

EI Elmag Nis

EI Energy and Maintenance Zemun

EI Eurostand Nis

EI Protection Nis

EI Industrial Electronics Nis

EI Informatics Nis ("Technicom Informatics" Nis)

EI Irin Nis

EI Research and Development Institute Belgrade (now IRITEL)

EI Jugorendgen (or EI X-ray Machine Factory)

EI Ceramics Djevđelija

EI Color Cathode Tubes Nis

EI Commerce Nis

EI Components Nis

EI Measuring Devices Nis

EI Metal Nis

EI Nikola Tesla Zemun

EI Nit Nis

EI Opek Nis

EI Pack Aleksinac

EI Pionir Zemun

EI Plastics Nis

EI Semiconductors Nis

EI Trade Nis

EI Professional Electronics Nis

EI Pupin Zemun

EI Radio Tubes Nis

EI Computers Nis

EI Components Nis

EI October 7 Nis

EI Service Network Belgrade

EI Sigraph Nis

EI Owl Nis (after privatization by HDS Nis)

EI Standard (or EI UIT Nis)

EI Television Nis

EI Test Nis

EI Transport and Trade Nis

EI Service Nis

EI Factory of Electric Hand Tools Zemun

EI Machinery and Equipment Factory Nis EI Machine Parts Factory Nis

EI Radio Receiver Factory Nis (or EI Radio Acoustics)

EI Signal Devices Factory Belgrade

EI Specific Elements Factory Nis

EI Femid Bela Palanka

EI Ferit Zemun

EI Hanivel Nis

EI Chegar Nis

EI SKO Nis or EI Internal Bank Nis

EI Printed Circuits Nis

Products

Ei managed to develop full spectrum of electronics production, but it was mostly know in the market by loudspeakers, amplifiers, sound systems, computers, electric meters, washing machines, dishwashers, ordinary irons, televisions, telephones, telephone exchanges.

EI products included the computers Pecom 32, Pecom 64, as well as the Lira series, starting with the Lira 512.

From Wikipedia’s article on Ei Niš, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

  1. 1948Founded Founded1

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