12.05.2022

Astra Vagoane Calatori plant, one of the biggest players on the local rolling stock market, will operate at full capacity next year, when it is due to deliver 48 streetcars to Bucharest and other more

10.25.2022

Astra Vagoane Calatori, a major player on Romania’s rolling stock market, controlled by entrepreneur Valer Blidar, now has 93 jobs available at its Arad plant. more

09.19.2022

Astra Vagoane Calatori, a major player on Romania’s rolling stock market, controlled by Valer Blidar, will deliver the seventh tram for Bucharest and is set to reach 17 trams overall by yearend. more

08.09.2022

Astra Vagoane Calatori, a major player on Romania’s rolling stock market, controlled by entrepreneur Valer Blidar, currently has 75 jobs available at its Arad plant. more

05.17.2022

Astra Vagoane Calatori, a major player on Romania’s rolling stock market, controlled by Valer Blidar, will bring welders, locksmiths and electricians from Vietnam for the Arad plant, where it more

02.25.2022

Astra Vagoane Calatori, a leading rolling stock producer in Romania, controlled by entrepreneur Valer Blidar, currently has 75 jobs available at the Arad plant. more

01.18.2022

Astra Vagoane Calatori, one of the biggest players on the local rolling stock market, controlled by Valer Blidar, in 2021 doubled its turnover and for 2022 expects it to at least stay at last year’s more

12.06.2021

Astra Vagoane Calatori, one of the biggest players on the local rolling stock market, controlled by Valer Blidar, will end this year with RON300 million revenue, compared with RON192 million the more

04.05.2019

Valer Blidar, owner of Astra Vagoane Calatori Arad, one of the largest rolling stock makers in Romania, says he will participate in two streetcar tenders in Arad and Bucharest after having already won more

05.31.2018

Rolling stock manufacturer Astra Rail Industries ended last year with 494 million lei (EUR106 million) revenue, 29.8% lower than in 2016 according to the data the company provided for the ZF’s `Cei more

06.23.2017

Industrialist Valer Blidar, owner of the rolling stock plant Astra Vagoane Calatori in Arad (western Romania) has teamed up with Electroputere VFU Pascani (Vasile Didila and Gruia Stoica) and more

05.22.2017

Industrialist Valer Blidar, the owner of rolling stock plant Astra Vagoane Calatori in Arad has turned to Scandinavian countries for sale of railroad and street cars. more

05.05.2017

Astra Rail Management Gmbh, the company controlled by German entrepreneur Thomas Manns, is in talks with the Grigoriu family in Bacau to buy Moldova Farming company, which operates about 8,000 more

04.25.2017

Rolling stock manufacturer Astra Rail Industries, which owns Astra Vagoane Arad, Romvag (Caracal) and Meva (Turnu Severin) railroad car plants in business for more than 100 years, ended last year with more

01.06.2017

Industrialist Valer Blidar, who owns Astra Vagoane Calatori rolling stock plant in the western Romanian city of Arad, is entering rail passenger transport business, after having built a six-car train more

10.13.2016

American group Greenbrier and Astra Rail Management, which owns train wagon factories in Arad, Caracal and Turnu Severin, will form a new company within a transaction whose final value reaches EUR60 more

09.16.2016

Industrialist Valer Blidar, who owns Astra Vagoane Calatori Arad rolling stock plant, is in advanced talks for another contract in Brazil, a market he entered in 2012. He also resumed talks with the more

08.10.2016

German entrepreneur Thomas Manns, who has previously bought the railroad car plants of businessman Cristian Burci via Astra Rail Management Gmbh, owns almost one quarter of the confirmed debt of more

07.01.2016

Rolling stock manufacturer Astra Vagoane Calatori based in Arad, western Romania, is starting the production of electric trolleybuses and buses. more

05.13.2016

Rolling stock manufacturer Astra Vagoane Calatori based in Arad and held by businessman Valer Blidar ended last year with 96 million lei (EUR21 million) revenue, down from RON290 million in 2014, the more

05.11.2016

TNG, the majority shareholder of insurance company Astra Asigurari, wants to sue the Romanian state at an international investment court for violating its rights in accordance with several bilateral more

04.29.2016

Bucharest Court Of Appeals on Friday ruled irrevocably on the bankruptcy of insurance company Astra Asigurari, eight months after the Financial Supervisory Authority ASF asked for the insurer’s more

04.08.2016

Romania does not have an industry support and development program as do Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic, says Valer Blidar, the owner of rolling stock manufacturer Astra Vagoane Calatori in Arad more

02.02.2016

Insurance company Astra could have been saved from bankruptcy by implementing the resolution mechanism if there had been a law in this respect a year ago, because the Financial Supervisory Authority more

01.27.2016

Astra Rail Industries, a company built by German Thomas Mans from Astra Vagoane Arad, Meva and Romvag Caracal, only works with customers abroad, having gained some from UK, France and Austria last more