The state-owned company Fabryka Samochodów Ciężarowych im. Feliksa Dzierżyńskiego was established in 1948 in place of a
Lilpop, Rau i Loewenstein supplier, which had been there since 1920. In 1991, the company was transformed into Zakład Starachowicki STAR SA. In the mid-90s control of the company was taken over by Sobiesław Zasada Centrum S.A. It tried without success to create a Polish company specializing in the production of utility vehicles. Later the company was split into two: Star Trucks Sp. z o.o. and Inwest Star S.A. At the end of 1999, Star Trucks Sp. z o.o. was taken over by the German group
MAN AG. The company continued for a few years production of trucks. These were initially trucks of its own design, then models with a large share of the group MAN components, such as drivers' cabins and engines. On 1 August 2003, MAN Star Trucks Sp. z o.o. merged with MAN Bus Poland Sp. z o.o. into MAN Star Trucks & Busses Sp. z o.o. with headquarters in Sady near Poznan. In the same year the factory in Starachowice started making frames and chassis components for the bus plants in Sady and Salzgitter. Sady is the main production site for the
Lion's City bus range. Truck production numbers continued to fall, reaching in the final period a few hundred units per year. In 2004, manufacturing of trucks was moved to a MAN factory in Steyr, Austria (former
Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG ). Starachowice continued to make small numbers of trucks for the army and various services (e.g., foresters). In 2006, manufacturing of trucks ceased completely. The plant in Starachowice currently produces frames of buses and bus and truck components for group MAN. The brand "Star" was used for selling on the Polish market Steyr trucks produced in Austria. On 9 January 2009, the company MAN Star Trucks & Buses dropped "Star" from the name and is now known as MAN Bus Sp. z o.o. ==Star Products==