FAUR
FAUR SA
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legal form | Corporation |
founding | 1921 |
Seat | Bucharest , Romania |
Number of employees | about 400 |
Website | www.faur.ro |
FAUR SA is a Romanian vehicle and machine manufacturer based in Bucharest .
The company was founded in 1921 by the industrialist Nicolae Malaxa under the name Malaxa and was later also named Rogifer (until 1945) and Lokomotivfabrik 23 August (from 1945) in memory of the 1944 coup . At first, FAUR only manufactured rail vehicles, since 1950 the production program has also included machines for various branches of industry. In the RGW the factory produced at the request of the DDR series 119 of the German National Railroad , since neither the East nor the USSR could offer diesel locomotives to the desired power. During this time, L18H narrow-gauge locomotives were also delivered to the GDR. In 1986 these were two locomotives that were in use at the Bebel hut in Helbra (copper extraction). One of the locomotives is now in operation in France with a new engine. Further locomotives were delivered to Helbra in 1990, but no longer needed due to the closure of the hut. You are working in Germany.
Even after the end of the COMECON, the main branches of production are still the manufacture and maintenance of rail vehicles of various types and gauges as well as the manufacture of machine components and engines.
In Germany, in addition to the above-mentioned class 119 (later 219/229) locomotives, a number of FAUR narrow-gauge locomotives are in use:
- Two L18H locomotives each on the Wangerooger Inselbahn and at the Albbähnle
- one locomotive of the type L30H on the SOEG , two more on the Döllnitzbahn
- One L45H locomotive each for the Fichtelbergbahn , the Lößnitzgrundbahn , the Weißeritztalbahn and the Saxon-Upper Lusatian Railway Company
There are also two L45H locomotives in Austria : the ÖGLB locomotive 2099.01 on the Ybbstalbahn and another machine on the Stainzerbahn .
In addition to their country of origin, FAUR locomotives are more widely represented in the other countries that were members of the Comecon. At PKP , for example, the Lyd2 (L30H), Lxd2 (L45H) and MBxd2 (A20D-P railcars) series are on various narrow-gauge railroads. Further FAUR locomotives were sold to Great Britain and St. Kitts and are in use there.
Web links
- Official website (Romanian and English)
- Newspaper article on Rogifer AG in the press kit of the 20th century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .