Our History

Atelierele CFR Grivita SA is a company with a long history in passenger coach maintenance, repairs, modernization, refurbishment and rebuilding.  Also in the company are maintained and repaired a wide range of freight cars. The plant has been established in 1897 and was specialized in steam engines and passenger coach repairs. Over the years we have improved our technology and expertise, achieving a present top position among coach repair companies, covering home and international passenger coaches with special regime, sleeping coaches, restaurant coaches, saloon coaches, historic trains and administrative staff coaches.

Safety and comfort

In order to respond to the requests of our main beneficiaries, the last 4 years brought an increase in the action of rehabilitating the old passenger coaches and of bringing them up to modern requisites, both in terms of travel safety and comfort.

The coaches have been endowed with air conditioning, audio-video equipments, radio sound installations, ecologic sanitary installations, ergonomic furniture, automatic control devices with timing options, glass fiber polyester modules, electro-pneumatic brake system and inhibition system for the alarm signal etc.

Our specialists can provide the technical support, the production workshops have the necessary equipments to put into practice various solutions, whereas the organizational flexibility and existing endowments make us available for our clients’ multiple requests. We have the capability to refurbish the interiors, to mount equipments and installations of various degrees of complexity, to carry out rebuilding and modernization operations for a wide range of passenger coaches, built in our country or abroad, later or older generation, in small or large series.

For the repairs carried out in Atelierele CFR Grivita SA, we use latest generation equipments and subassemblies from well-known providers, such as: SMC, Festo, Vossloh, Dowalwerke, Semco, IFE, Escha, Turck, Faiveley, SACME, Kovis, Bonatrans, Taraflex, Altro etc.