What started as a business run by a single person has now grown to become a family-run business that is becoming larger and larger and influences the markets around the world.

The name ELIET takes us back to the original establisher and inspirer of the company, Emiel Lietaer and ELIET is a combination of the founder's first name and family name. He grew up amongst farm machinery and he built up broad technical experience during practical training in a number of French and German machinery factories. Fairly quickly Emiel Lietaer came to realise that there were no tailor-made solutions at hand for many gardening problems. Thanks to his creative mind and technical skills, the first ELIET machines were produced around 1980. The foundation for the machinery factory was in place. The continuously growing demand for Eliet machines quickly obliged ELIET to make investments and to expand buildings and employees. A trend that is still going on now.