History
Founded by the Austrian industry Johan Weitzer, transformed into a joint stock company in the interwar period and then privatized again after the fall of communism, the wagon factories in Arad are today presented as a continuation of a legacy that takes us back to the beginning of the industrial revolution in this part of the world.
At the dawn of the new millennium, immediately after privatization, we re-established the research and design center, and from the third year we managed to produce a prototype of a modern wagon that was presented at the first Romanian exhibition in Bucharest. … In 2012, the “Imperio” tram was also presented on the international market of the “Innotrans” exhibition in Berlin, and today the orders started to come by themselves.
Astra Group today produces trams as modern and efficient as the big competitors in the European Union… and even the world.
AVA 200 M-APN Wagon
Imperio Oradea Tram
Imperio Oradea Tram
Imperio Cluj Tram
Imperio Cluj Tram
AUTENTIC Tram
AVA 200 ATC Z1 Wagon
AVA 200 BEDROOM Wagon
AVA 200 BEDROOM Wagon
AVA 200 BUNK Wagon
AVA 200 BUNK Wagon
IRIS Certificate
GT-4 ARMONIA Modernized tram
GT4 ARMONIA modernized tram
Town 118 type PU-01 Trolleybus
Town 118 type PU-01 Trolleybus
Brazil Wagons
Final equipping workshop
Final equipping workshop
AVA 200 REGIOJET Wagon
IMPERIO ECO Tram
IMPERIO Tram
Imperio Tram Prototype
IMPERIO Tram Prototype
UNICA Italy Wagon
STANDARD Italy Wagon
STANDARD Italy Wagon
AVA 200 Interregio Wagon
AVA 200 Interregio Wagon
AVA 200 Restaurant Wagon
First class AVA 200 Express Wagon
First class AVA 200 Express Wagon
Second class AVA 200 Express Wagon
Assembly line for SIEMENS Desiro locomotives.
Establishment of ASTRA Vagoane Călători SA by detachment from the Astra Arad wagon factory.
AVA200 Wagon built after the license CORAIL De Dietrich.
Astra is nationalized and continues its activity under various names such as Uzina de Vagoane Arad..
ASTRA Vagoane Călători was founded in 1891 in Arad, by the Austrian industrialist Johann Weitzer under the name of “Fabrica de mașini, vagoane și Turnătoria de fier a societății pe acțiuni Johann Weitzer din Arad”.