Astra Arad

In 1854, he founded his own workshop, which expanded quickly, even producing vehicles for the construction of the Suez Canal.

It produced locomotives, railway waggons, tramcars (such as 17 items for Temesvár (today Timișoara)), and, since 1903, Weitzer railmotor, Europe's first successful series of railcars.

After the edition auf 500 automobiles, civil production ceased in 1914, due to World War I.

After World War II, the company was nationalized and became Europe's biggest manufacturer of freight cars, as Întreprinderea de Vagoane Arad (IVA).

The production of freight cars, Astra Vagoane Arad, was sold to Trinity Industries, which sold it to International Railway Systems (IRS), seated in Luxemburg, but mainly based on plants in eastern Europe.