Astra machninery plant AB was founded in 1929. Since then the company produced various appliances and machines for industrial and household purposes. In nowadays Astra employs 250 highly skilled professionals specializing in stainless steel and carbon steel welding, CNC machining and metal surfaces coating technologies. In 2009 the company fulfilled the equipment modernization process, acquired the newest welding robots, allowing welds of our products to be state of the art examples of industrial production.
The highest professional competence of our engineers is supported by the fact that Astra machninery plant AB has become the only manufacturer in the Baltic states, which has acquired the American ASME certification for design and production of pressure vessels. The company has been granted homologation to produce pressure vessels acording to the requirements of European PED 97/23/EC and Russian Rostechnadzor as well. The quality management system according to ISO 9001 standard was maintained in Astra since 2000, and friendly to environment conduct of all design and manufacturing procedures according to ISO 14001 standard- since 2003.
In 1991 the Heating boiler division was founded in the company and at the same time started the production of wood gasifying boilers. Astra has its own laboratory for testing heating boilers, all innovations and improvements of design are being elaborated at this platform the first. Over 90% of the Astra solid fuel heating boilers are being exported to European and the CIS countries, all the boilers have CE mark and GOST-R сertification.