Innovation up to emission-free mining equipment

In 2003 Eddy de Jongh started ETF. The goal: build a modular technical platform for mining trucks.

The name ETF was coined during a long flight from the Netherlands to Indonesia, where the marketing plan was being discussed. From the original idea to start in the Emirates came “Emirates Truck Factory” — which, funnily enough, could also be read as “Eddy's Truck Factory”. The short, powerful abbreviation stuck. ETF was born.

From day one, a nut was incorporated in the logo — a nod to the modular concept, where a mining truck must literally be assembled and disassembled with bolts and nuts.

The founder's path and his early partners' separated in the years that followed, but the core team of specialists and engineers that started ETF has remained, continuing the work on emission-free mining equipment according to its own vision.

New technologies became opportunities. In August 2015 we started the design of a battery-electric All-Wheel-Drive surface mining vehicle with energy harvesting: zero emissions and low noise, with no diesel engines or turbines — only batteries.

ETF HOLDING is a privately-held Slovenian company with no links to other companies also using the name ETF.