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This sector of the economy is growing as electrical appliances and equipment spread ever further across leisure, home and industrial uses.
The largest firm is SA Ateliers de Constructions Electriques de Charleroi (ACEC) which is a large manufacturer of electrical generation, transmission, transport, lighting and industrial equipment and has now entered the field of radios for domestic use. Société Anonyme GL Carpentier has only in business for twenty years but is a major electronic component supplier and produces radios and audio equipment for the growing commercial market. Manufacture Belge de Lampes Electriques (MBLE) is the largest manufacturer of light bulbs in Belgium under the Mazda brand. It is involved in a partnership agreement with Phillips.

Barco (Belgian American Radio Corporation)
Radio manufacturer founded in 1934 with a factory in Antwerp.

SA Ateliers de Constructions Electriques de Charleroi (ACEC)
A manufacturer of electrical generation, transmission, transport, lighting and industrial equipment, with origins dating to the late 19th century as a successor to the Société Électricité et Hydraulique founded by Julien Dulait. In 1886, the company was renamed becoming Société anonyme Électricité et Hydraulique à Charleroi (E&H). By this time the factory was producing dynamos with over 100 kW power. By 1900, the company had supplied electric lighting to the cities of Liege, Charleroi and Schaerbeek and opened a new factory in Marcinelle,Marchienne followed by another in 1898 in Jeumont on the Franco/Belgian border. In 1904, the company supplied the first entirely Belgian built trams for a line in Cointe, Liege. The company's product range included dynamos, lifts, carbon arc lamps, electric traction motors for trams and drilling equipment. On 7 July 1904, the company became Ateliers de Constructions électriques de Charleroi (ACEC), having been acquired by Baron Edouard Empain. Empain sought to counter German companies' share of the Belgian market. The French Jeumont factory became Ateliers de constructions électriques du Nord et de l'Est (ACENE).
In 1914, the company began manufacturing motor vehicles, with an electric transmission system, to the design of Balachowsky & Caire. During the Great War Dutch occupying forces kept the factory open and orders continued to arrive for electronic equipment. Post-war, ACEC began to produce vacuum based electronics, including mercury arc rectifiers which in 1929 were installed on the Bruxelles tram system. The company also produced a high power test installation, capable of producing 2.5GW in short circuit, with currents and voltages of up to 267kA and 250kV. In 1939, ACEC began to collaborate with Constructions Electriques de Belgique (CEB), with the two companies rationalising their combined production which saw the acquisition of CEB in 1944 which became ACEC Herstal.
In 1939, the company also began manufacturing variable pitch propellers of Fairey-Reed and Ratier design under licence and parts for anti-tank and tank guns under sub-contract to FN. From 1945, a new electronics department began developing and marketing radio sets and televisions for the growing domestic market.

Société Anonyme GL Carpentier
Founded in Kuurne at Kortrijk in 1925 to It manufacture parts for electronic devices such as variable rotary capacitors, coils, transformers and rotary switches. In 1939, it produced its first radio, the A525AF. It now manufacturers a range of radio sets and sound equipment under the name Carad (Carpentier Radio); transformers and coils under the name CarTran (Carpentier Transformers) and switches and variable capacitors under the name GLC. From 1948, it began building television sets under the Carad brand.

ETAP
This company produces ship's lighting at a factory in Antwerp, it was founded in 1949.

Manufacture Belge de Lampes Electriques (MBLE)
The company was founded in 1911, in Vilvoorde, under the name La lampe Brabant. It initially produced light bulbs under the name Mazda (la meilleure lumière!). From 1924, the company also manufactured electron tubes under the brand name Adzam (la meilleure musique!). In 1925, the company entered a partnership with Philips. In 1947, production of fluorescent tubes began and in 1949 they started manufacturing other electronic components for telecommunications. A new research lab was founded in 1945 and a new factory in Evere opened in 1950.

Olympia
Founded in 1948 in Machelen, Zulte as an offshoot of a family business making wooden barrels and washtubs since the 1880s. The company manufactures household electric washing machines.