Astra (company) Information

Astra (Anonima Sarda TRAsporti) Veicoli Industriali S.p.A. is an Italian company that produces trucks, heavy transport vehicles and military vehicles. Astra was privately founded in 1946 in Cagliari, and since 1986 has been part of Iveco, itself part of CNH Industrial. In 1951 Astra moved to Piacenza. From 1946 to 1986 Astra was owned by the Bertuzzi family of Piacenza.

During the 1960s, the companies facility was enlarged several times, and a broader range of vehicles with dumper and mixer models were added.

Currently the production of vehicles by Astra includes a number of construction-oriented trucks (HD8), rigid dump trucks (RD), and articulated dump trucks (ADT). Production of vehicles began in 1955 with the construction of the BM1, a rigid dump truck that had some success. Following the enlargement of the factory, the BM series was extended, and the model BM 309 participated in the Paris-Dakar in the truck category. In 1996, the fiftieth anniversary of the companys founding, the HD7 series went on the market which also had some success. In 2005 this was replaced by the current HD8 range. In 2009 Astra launched a new range of heavy duty vehicles called HHD.

In 2002 the company absorbed Astra SIVI (a partner of Iveco from 1982), which produced vehicles for heavy transport, and in 2004 completely integrated production by SIVI. Vehicles produced by SIVI Astra are all produced on the basis of Iveco vehicles, currently Stralis and Trakker.

The Astra range of products includes:

Since 1990, Astra SpA has built the entire military range of trucks produced by the Iveco group.

The HD7 series in cargo and tractor versions are as follows.

HD7/C series, HD8, equipped with Iveco Motors Cursor 13.

The HD7/C series, equipped with motors type Cursor 13 Euro 4 consists of:

The new HD8 series, equipped with the also new Iveco Cursor 13 Euro 5 contains 16 configurations of chassis with 5 different motors:

Two special series of HD8 are destined for foreign markets:

Rigid

Articulated

1. ↑ Astra dumptrucks at dumper.fr (French)

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