KAMAZ Calls Teachers
Today OJSC KAMAZ holds a conference for managers of Tatarstan’s institutions of primary, secondary, higher and further vocational education.
The conference is traditionally called by Tatarstan’s Ministry of Education and Science in the middle of August, but this year it was brought forward to 30 July in order that its participants might see the work of KAMAZ. It will be recalled that in August the majority of KAMAZ’s employees will be on annual corporative paid leave for the first time in the company’s practice, and all productions will be stopped.
“Vocational Education in the Republic of Tatarstan: Priority Measures” is the name and the key-note of the conference. It will begin from an excursion to the mother assembly conveyor of the automobile plant, and then the participants will work in groups. The managers of institutes of higher education and specialized secondary educational establishments – Fayruza Mustafina, Chancellor of Naberezhnochelninsky State Teachers Training Institute, Aydar Kalimullin, Chancellor of Yelabuzhsky State Teachers Training University, and others will act as experts.
They will consider the issues of vocational education infrastructure, new educational standards and methods, integration with regional economy, certification of professional qualifications, staffing of vocational education, students’ professional orientation. The conference will be followed by a plenary meeting. Kirill Puzyrkov, Deputy Director General of OJSC KAMAZ of HRM and Organizational Development, Albert Gilmutdinov, Minister of Education and Science of the RT, Klara Tazetdinova, Deputy Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Protection of the RT will act as moderators.
Solutions worked out at the conference should become a guideline for improvement of human resource development for production.
Friday, 30 July 2010
Open Sky over Zakamye
Begishevo International Airport, the air gateway of the whole Zakamye Region (Tatarstan Republic), proclaims the “open sky” policy.
OJSC KAMAZ and OJSC Holding Company Ak Bars declare that the policy of “open sky” means equality of all airlines without exception, including foreign ones, irrespective of a form of property, belonging and airports of location, before BEGISHEVO International Airport. But in reality this is an official statement of the existent state of affairs and an actual spread of the current practice on all potential partners of OJSC BEGISHEVO AIRPORT. The airport offers high-class ground maintenance to aircrafts and services to clients of all airlines, pursues a unified tariff policy and guarantees free access to information about services, the order of their performance, tariffs and dues. In addition to that BEGISHEVO airport work with each airline individually, on a mutually advantageous basis, respecting and appreciating its partners’ interests.
From June 2008 OJSC KAMAZ is the main stockholder of OJSC AIRPORT BEGISHEVO. In a period from 2008 to 2009 investments were made in capital and ground-support equipment renewals which allowed BEGISHEVO airport to receive class 1-2 foreign aircrafts.
To date Begishevo is the only international airport of Zakamye and its industrial towns: Naberezhnye Chelny, Nizhnekamsk, Zainsk, Yelabuga, Mendeleevsk, and Menzelinsk with population of about 1.35 million people and Gross Regional Product of more than half of Tatarstan’s GRP.
In March 1998 the enterprise received an international status. To date aircrafts of the airport’s 6 partners regularly fly from BEGISHEVO airport. The aircrafts of Tatarstan, Ak Bars Aero, UTair, and Avianova airlines get their passengers to all largest airports of Moscow, and also to St. Petersburg, Sochi and other cities of Russia. Charter flights to the largest international airports of the whole world are also organized. Orenburg Airlines and Red Wings companies basically serve international directions of passenger transportation via BEGISHEVO airport – for example, to resort towns Taba, Sharm el-Sheikh, Antalya, etc.
During the operation of BEGISHEVO airport as an independent enterprise its economic performance noticeably improved. Last year – in 2009 – its total passenger traffic increased by 8.2% against 2008, and for the first half-year of 2010 it grew by 76.5% compared with the same period in 2009. For the first half-year of 2010 the number of aircraft departures rose by 25.8% against 2009, including those of international airlines which went up by 8.6%.
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OJSC KAMAZ is the leader of the Russian market producing and selling trucks and spare parts, the founder (participant) of 103 organizations of KAMAZ Group.
KAMAZ vehicles are used in more than 80 countries. Eleven years running KAMAZ has become the best Russian exporter in the mechanical engineering industry. OJSC KAMAZ is a company widely integrated into the international automobile industry. 4 joint ventures were established with the participation of the leading world producers of auto components ZF KAMA (gearboxes), CUMMINS KAMA (engines), KNORR-BREMSE KAMA (brake systems) and Federal Mogul Naberezhnye Chelny (details of a cylinder-and-piston group).
OJSC Holding Company Ak Bars is an intersectoral diversified structure which has got over 30 enterprises.
The holding is represented with a large construction sub-holding, enterprise of chemical, shipbuilding, instrument-making and food industries, AK BARS AERO airline, agricultural firms, its own distribution networks and cultural and entertainment institutions. The total number of employees is over 20,000 people. The company’s main activities are rendering of consultation, marketing, expert and legal services in the sphere of investment activity, optimization of production and financial plans and company management systems.
Friday, 30 July 2010
Rosagroleasing at KAMAZ
A joint technical conference of OJSC KAMAZ and OAO Rosagroleasing, KAMAZ’s large corporative partner for promotion and delivery of products to customers in the country’s agricultural sector, is being held at KAMAZ.
Firstly the guests saw production objects and joint enterprises of the vehicle producer. They visited KAMAZ-Diesel and the shops of JV CUMMINS KAMA located there, JV ZF KAMA and Federal Mogul Naberezhnye Chelny, saw the mother assembly conveyor of the automobile plant and the auto racing center of the KAMAZ-master team.
The plenary sitting will take place in the general directorate of OJSC KAMAZ. Sergey Kogoghin, Director General of OSJC KAMAZ and Valery Nazarov, Director General of OAO Rosagroleasing will address themselves to Rosagroleasing’s operators and KAMAZ’s leading specialists.
Various issues of the further development of the parties’ cooperation which started as far back as in 2002 will be discussed during the round-table conference.
If in 2002-2003 KAMAZ had delivered agricultural workers only 168 trucks to the tune of 123 million roubles via Rosagroleasing, during the last three calendar years the amount of purchased vehicles and trailers for the agricultural sector achieved thousands of units and was estimated at billions of roubles. The year of 2009 was especially successful for the cooperation. KAMAZ realized 2505 KAMAZ trucks and 2195 trailers via Rosagroleasing with prepayment of 5 billion roubles. In fact, this is 10 percent of last year’s total output of KAMAZ vehicles. In all, during the whole period of cooperation with Rosagroleasing, 11238 units of automotive equipment – 7165 trucks and 4073 trailers were sold.
The eight-year practice of KAMAZ’s and Rosagroleasing’s cooperation indicated that in Russia cooperation of machine builders with large centralized and specialized state companies is the most optimal form of promotion of automotive and agricultural equipment in the agricultural complex.
Thursday, 29 July 2010
Meeting of OJSC KAMAZ’s Board of Directors
Today a regular meeting of OJSC KAMAZ’s Board of Directors – the first one for new members of the company’s representative management body elected on 25 June at OJSC KAMAZ’s stockholders’ annual general meeting – took place in Moscow.
In accordance with OJSC KAMAZ’s Charter, the chairman of the new membership of the Board of Directors was elected at this meeting. Sergey Chemezov, Director General of the Russian Technologies State Corporation became the chairman again.
The plan of operation of OJSC KAMAZ’s Board of Directors was also approved. The representatives of the company’s owners appointed the composition of the audit and staff committees of OJSC KAMAZ’s Board of Directors.
Tuesday, 27 July 2010
On Leave in August
For a period from 2 to 27 August the majority of OJSC KAMAZ’s employees will go on annual corporative paid leave.
The decision about it was made by OJSC KAMAZ’s management jointly with the trade-union committee as far back as last year. According to Yury Klochkov, First Deputy Director General and CEO of OJSC KAMAZ, the European auto producers normally use this practice enabling to considerably cut costs: as utilities are not used, sizable means are saved. Besides, there is no need for the KAMAZ workers to combine jobs and work for those on leave. But not all employees will be on holiday: a part of the personnel – a sale service, maintenance personnel, and some other categories of employees – will work all the same.
Suspension of production will be used for repair and modernization of equipment which usually operates round-the-clock.
Tuesday, 27 July 2010
KAMAZ Helps Build Ring Road
OAO Leasing Company KAMAZ delivered 20 KAMAZ-65115 dumpers for construction of the fourth ring road in Moscow.
The vehicles were delivered according to the contract signed by Leasing Company KAMAZ and OOO DorMost – one of the leading subdivisions of Moscow’s town-planning policy and construction complex.
KAMAZ-65115 all-purpose dumper with payload of 15 tonnes and body space of 10 cubic meters is used in all spheres of economic activity where transportation of loose goods is required – from agribusiness to road-building sector. This unique KAMAZ vehicle enjoys unfailing popularity both on the territory of the Russian Federation and in countries of the near and far abroad.
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OAO Leasing Company KAMAZ is one of the largest Russian companies offering the service of leasing of vehicles by a manufacturer. The level of development of the company, its service and package of services is appreciated both by colleagues and experts. In particular, according to experts of the Russian Association of Leasing Companies, in 2009 Leasing Company KAMAZ ranked first in the segment “Road-Building Equipment” in the leasing market, seventh in the segment “Leasing of Motor Transport”, and thirteenth in the whole domestic leasing market by volumes of a new business. Besides, according to experts of the rating agency Expert RA, the company took third place in Top-20 of leasing companies working with medium business.
Thursday, 22 July 2010
Preparing Memorandum of Cooperation
Today a working meeting of representatives of nonprofit organizations – the Association of Russian Automakers (OAR) and the Association of European Businesses (AEB) – took place in Moscow where they discussed the text of the Memorandum of Cooperation and the further lines of cooperation of the Russian and foreign automobile manufacturers. The delegation was headed by Sergey Kogoghin, Chairman of the OAR’s Board, Director General of OJSC KAMAZ on the Russian part, and by Dr. Frank Schauff, CEO of the AEB in the RF on the AEB’s part.
Preparation for this meeting started from Dr. Frank Schauff’s and Sergey Kogoghin’s private conversation at the International Forum “Engineering Technologies 2010” held from June 30, 2010 to July 4, 2010.
Mutually considering it necessary to broaden the EU and RF automakers’ cooperation in the sphere of mechanical engineering, the parties determined the organizations’ main areas of cooperation. They include organization and holding of vehicle shows, joint events to improve the quality of automobile fuel in the Russian market.
Under the draft, the parties are to exchange data of statistics, vehicle production and sales in the RF and the EU. The parties expressed their interest in preparation of suggestions to the Russian Government concerning import of vehicles to the country and a customs and tariff policy. Special attention was paid to the issues of development of technical regulations concerning the RF requirements to wheeled vehicles and vehicle components harmonized with the EU directives and introduction of ISO/TU 16949-2002 standards at enterprises of the domestic automobile industry.
The document doesn’t provide for the parties’ financial obligations, but it doesn’t belittle its importance: to date the Association of Russian Automakers includes a number of foreign automobile producers, such as General Motors, Renault, and Volvo. Therefore the Memorandum of Cooperation which the participants of the meeting plan to sign already in August at the Moscow international Motor Show (August 27, 2010 – September 5, 2010) is an important stage in the development of the home automobile industry and in the process of its integration into the international business relations system.
Thursday, 22 July 2010
KAMAZ’s Representative Office in Ukraine Celebrates its Anniversary with Sales Growth
Three years ago KAMAZ opened its trade office in Ukraine. These three years were difficult, but the Ukrainian sales and service network of OJSC KAMAZ celebrates its anniversary in 2010 confidently facing the future.
To date OJSC KAMAZ has got not only its trade office in Ukraine. The Russian corporation adopted a new scheme of production delivery to this country: via an official importer. A decision to establish the single importing company was announced at OJSC KAMAZ’s official dealers’ meeting which took place on April 28, 2010 in Kiev. KAMAZ’s strategy in the Ukrainian market included development of Chernigovsky Automobile Center KAMAZ on the basis of which it was decided to establish KAMAZ’s Trade Company – OJSC KAMAZ’s subsidiary. The whole KAMAZ trade and service network in Ukraine includes 9 dealer organizations and 10 authorized service centers.
The consequences of the global financial crisis adversely affected OJSC KAMAZ’s clients’ and the Ukrainian customers’ purchasing power. However, specialists of the trade and service network managed to turn developments of the last two years to their own, KAMAZ’s and KAMAZ’s customers’ advantage working in close cooperation with the management of the main office.
According to the data of AUTO-Consulting Information Analysis Group, in the first half-year 2010 the share of KAMAZ’s production made 31% in the Ukrainian market in the segment of trucks with payload of over 16t. More often such equipment is used in the agrarian sector strategically important for the Ukrainian economy. There are “stars” and “outsiders” among vehicles in this area. To the former belong KAMAZ vehicles the most popular of which is KAMAZ-45143. This model alone takes 13.2% of the Ukrainian market of trucks with payload of over 16t!
KAMAZ’s production takes a bit smaller volume in the market of trucks with payload of 8-16t: in the first half-year it formed 17.2%. There is something to be proud of though: its increase made up 8% in comparison with the first half-year of 2009.
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
Leasing Company KAMAZ for SME
OAO Leasing Company KAMAZ realizes a program to supply small and medium size enterprises with OJSC KAMAZ’s products.
Under the government SME Lending Support Program, OAO Leasing Company KAMAZ and OAO Russian Bank for Development (RBD) entered into a credit contract under which RBD will grant Leasing Company KAMAZ a line of credit to the tune of 462 billion roubles for a term of 5 years within the limits of a credit product “Auto Leasing”.
It is planned to use these means to purchase vehicles and special equipment in order to later offer them in financial leasing to small and medium size enterprises operating in many regions of the Russian Federation.
To date Leasing Company KAMAZ offers its corporate clients a complex product, including development of a vehicle in accordance with a customer’s requirements, a Trade-In program, and service maintenance. The conditions of KAMAZ vehicles leasing provide for advance payment of 20% of an original cost and execution of a leasing contract for a period of up to 42 months with an inflation index of 7%.
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
KAMAZ-master Team’s New “Weapon”
From this autumn the KAMAZ-master team will compete on trucks of a new construction in international rallies.
Within 9 months the designers of the team developed and made the new race car. Currently the new “weapon” of the KAMAZ-master team is being thoroughly tested before the “Silk Way” rally.
The new race car was presented on the team’s proving ground in the settlement of Tarlovka not far from Naberezhnye Chelny. The main kinds of obstacles which the KAMAZ race car will have to bridge in the course of the rally are simulated on the track 17 kilometers long.
Vladimir Chaguin, the team’s legendary pilot noted that creating the new vehicle the constructors had mainly tried to reduce its weight so long as a power force component of the vehicle had been perfect and effective enough.
One can easily notice the design changes of the KAMAZ sport car immediately. The designers moved the cab backwards as much as it was possible taking into account technical requirements. They even had to remove a footstep for the pilots. The platform of the vehicle is lower than before, and the body geometry was changed in order to improve its aerodynamic qualities. The road weight of the vehicle is 9.3 tonnes, the engine power of 850 hp enables to speed up the vehicle to 100 km/h for 9.8 seconds, and the maximum speed is 196 kilometers an hour.
The “Silk Way” rally raid will be held from 11 to 18 September 2010 on the route St. Petersburg – Sochi. The KAMAZ-master team is supposed to send its 7-8 crews to the rally. Seven of them will be headed by Vladimir Chaguin, Firdaus Kabirov, Ilghizar Mardeev, his son Ayrat Mardeev, Eduard Nikolaev, Andrey Karginov and television anchorman Andrey Leontyev. If Tatarstan’s President Rustam Minnikhanov has time and an opportunity to take a leave and participate in the rally, the eighth crew will be headed exactly by him. The head of the republic haven’t finally confirmed his participation in the rally so far.
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
End Customers Received First Trucks MITSUBISHI FUSO CANTER Produced in Russia
Last week the first trucks MITSUBISHI FUSO CANTER produced in Russia were handed over to end customers in 2 cities at once: in Moscow and Kazan.
In Moscow, a ceremonial handing over of the keys passed through the opening of the “Mercedes-Benz North” dealer center, which is one of the first MITSUBISHI FUSO dealers in Russia. “SoyuzPACK” company became the owner of two new MITSUBISHI FUSO CANTERs. It is one of the largest manufacturers of packaging tapes in Russia. Two new board trucks MITSUBISHI FUSO CANTER are going to provide uninterrupted delivery of goods from the Moscow suburbs warehouse complex. "The main arguments for MITSUBISHI FUSO CANTER purchase became two important factors - reliability of these vehicles and the supplier's decency", - said Alexander Shirokov, executive director of “SoyuzPACK”.
In the FUSO Kazan dealer center entrepreneur Ziyatdinov Marat Miryatovich became the first buyer of the three refrigerated trucks MITSUBISHI FUSO CANTER. He is the owner of the company specialized on wholesale deliveries of food. His company already owns more than 40 units of various brands trucks. This time the choice was made for MITSUBISHI FUSO CANTER with a short base, which has high mobility, which is very important for transportation in large cities.
MITSUBISHI FUSO CANTER vehicles are sold all around the world, and they are famous for their multi-functionality and exceptional reliability.
In Russia, for the production and sale of Mitsubishi Fuso Trucks, OJSC KAMAZ and MFTBC (Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation) at the end of 2009 created a joint venture FUSO KAMAZ Trucks Rus, as a strategic partnership between OJSC KAMAZ and Daimler AG concern, the major shareholder of MFTBC.
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Double Anniversary with Victory
Having bridged over the difficulties of a global financial crisis KAMAZ-Engineering JSC, KAMAZ’s associated company in Kazakhstan, increases its vehicle production by 250% in comparison with 2009 and prepares to celebrate the fifth year from the day of establishment producing the jubilee five-thousandth vehicle.
The last two years became a severe test for KAMAZ-Engineering JSC: a building boom in the middle of the first decade in the Republic of Kazakhstan gave way to the dire financial crisis. Overstocking of finished stores became the cardinal problem for the new enterprise. Facing this challenge in 2008-2009 many large-scale enterprises found themselves in a sad state, and they haven’t managed to restore production up till now. The management of KAMAZ-Engineering stood this test with credit.
A crisis management program jointly developed by the JV’s specialists and their colleagues from OJSC KAMAZ was implemented already in the first months of the crisis. In the first crisis year they had to focus on clearance sales to the detriment of production, to take a number of other unpopular measures, for instance, to optimize the number of employees and to introduce the policy of strict austerity. It was efficient: already in 2009 the vehicle production of KAMAZ-Engineering JSC again started increasing.
The current year can by right be named the triumph of the enterprise. KAMAZ vehicles production increased by 250% as compared with last year, the construction of vehicles delivered to the Republic of Kazakhstan according to the state order was partially modernized, and facilities of the enterprise were kept running at full capacity.
To date KAMAZ-Engineering JSC is one of the most technologically equipped and modernized enterprises of Kazakhstan. It puts out six KAMAZ models: KAMAZ-65115, KAMAZ-55111, KAMAZ-45142, KAMAZ-45143, KAMAZ-6520 dumper and KAMAZ-54115 truck tractor.
The enterprise uses a quality management system corresponding to ISO 9001 international standard. Modern inspection, diagnostic and processing equipment is used for production. The KAMAZ vehicles assembled in Kazakhstan operate on many important project sites of the republic, including thoroughfare construction projects. The enterprise is one of the most important taxpayers. From the commencement of the project it transferred over 1.5 billion tenges to budgets at all levels.
By its example KAMAZ-Engineering proved not only that KAMAZ production is competitive and customer focused, but also that there is an opportunity of active development even under the most difficult economic conditions. To date this successful, dynamically developing enterprise is an example of brilliant integration of the Russian and Kazakhstan businesses, technological and financial cooperation of the neighboring states on the foundation of which a new system of productive and mutually advantageous international cooperation has recently started developing.
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KAMAZ-Engineering JSC, Kokshetau, Kazakhstan, the subsidiary of OJSC KAMAZ, was established on June 2, 2005. On August 5, 2005 the first vehicle model was assembled, and already on August 19 the first production KAMAZ vehicle came off the conveyor of the new factory. OJSC KAMAZ and National Company Kazakhstan-Engineering JSC acted as the founders of the JV KAMAZ-Engineering JSC. The development of truck assembly in Kokshetau was approved personally by President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev who was present at the opening ceremony of the auto assembly plant.
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
New Quality in New Package
Over 50 names of genuine parts for KAMAZ vehicles and special equipment received a new package protected from unauthorized opening and counterfeiting as much as possible.
The new package of lacquered double-face micro-corrugated cardboard has got a number of features enabling not only to tell KAMAZ’s genuine parts from “grey market” products, but also safely preserve an item during its transportation. There is not only an image of the spare part itself on its package painted in brand colours: grey (background) and dark blue (bottom and logos). KAMAZ’s trade mark and logo are on the top part, company details and addresses are in the center, a works number of the part, its name and a state standard certification mark are on the bottom part.
An accessory factor of counterfeit protection is an original seal of the red security tape. A two-digit prefix and an eight-digit variable number are marked on the tape. After opening, the background of the seal changes its colour from red to pink and becomes dotted with a mark “Opened".
When constructing and producing the new package, the most effective modern technologies for protection of a product from illegal unsealing were used. According to OJSC KAMAZ’s management, these measures will help customers distinguish original details from their “grey” analogues, enable to buy products of high quality, which will undoubtedly help increase the operation life of KAMAZ equipment.
The protective measures taken will help more effectively use the quality management system introduced at KAMAZ enterprises in order to further improve the quality of products and services.
Monday, 19 July 2010
KAMAZ Gas-Powered Vehicles at Innoprom 2010 Exhibition
The Ural International Exhibition and Forum of Industry and Innovations Innoprom 2010 on the stands of which OJSC KAMAZ presented gas-powered vehicles and gas equipment was opened in Yekaterinburg.
Importance attached to promotion and development of domestic gas-fired equipment in Russia is emphasized by the fact that the state’s chief executives Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin participated in the forum. Director General of OJSC KAMAZ Sergey Kogoghin made a report “OJSC KAMAZ’s Innovation Development Program” for the participants.
KAMAZ presented the audience several specimens of its equipment – two vehicles for communal services on KAMAZ-65115-30 (6x4) gas-powered chassis (BM-53229G-1 rear-tipping garbage truck and KO-505AG vacuum vehicle) and NEFAZ-5299-30-31 (4x2) urban low-entrance three-door bus. All of them are equipped with 260 hp Euro-4 gas engines produced by KAMAZ.
The leader of the Russian truck industry and one of the guarantors of Russia’s transportation security, OJSC KAMAZ has been actively developing a gas-powered vehicle sector in its production and innovation policy for a long time. The company considers (compressed) natural gas an equivalent alternative to diesel fuel, and, in addition, natural gas is economically effective as it is evidently cheaper than traditional fuels. Moreover, development of gas engines of the next stage international emission standards (Euro-4, Euro-5) is achieved by simpler design and technological solutions which also increases competitive advantages of vehicles and buses. Experience of accelerated development of gas-powered vehicles in the EU countries provides convincing proof of it.
Thursday, 15 July 2010
“Silk Way” in Russia
Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed an order to hold the Silk Way international rally on the Russian territory.
Alexander Zhukov, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, President of the Russian Olympic Committee was appointed chairman of the organizing committee of the rally which will take place along the route St. Petersburg – Sochi this September. Besides, Tatarstan’s President Rustam Minnikhanov, First Deputy Chairman of Russia’s State Duma Oleg Morozov, Russia’s Minister of Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy Vladimir Mutko, other federal and regional officials, and also Head of the “Silk Way – Dakar Series” project Semyon Yakubov became members of the organizational committee of the rally.
At the same time when the order was signed in Moscow, a briefing for the Russian rally competitors was held in the course of which the organizers of the rally provided them with more specific information about the route of Silk Way 2010. The group exploring the route worked well so that Silk Way Rally 2010 could stay in participants’ memory for a long time due to its unexpected angles and opening of new regions and landscapes of diverse geographical zones in Russia’s European part. The sportsmen are to receive evidence that, however fantastic it may seem, there is a desert, huge sandy plateaus, the most difficult dunes, endless steppes with the most difficult navigation conditions and serpentine rally roads in Europe too.
The organizers solved important tasks; they planned where to place bivouacs, worked through the issues of cooperation with local authorities, coordinated the work of a flight formation of the rally, developed fuel logistics along the route. The organizers gave serious attention to protection issues as over 100 thousand spectators are expected to be present at some route legs, even in not the most densely populated areas.
Applications for participation in the race are no longer accepted. 70 crews from 28 countries made their applications. “Even an Arab sheikh from the UAE inquired about the conditions of participation in the rally”, Semyon Yakubov said, “In addition to last year’s participants we have new ones.”
Thursday, 15 July 2010
Delegation of RF Ministry of Economic Development and Trade Visits KAMAZ
Today Oleg Savelyev, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation has visited OJSC KAMAZ’s enterprises.
The guest from Moscow and Rustam Minnikhanov, Tatarstan’s President, and Ravil Zaripov, Tatarstan’s Minister of Industry and Trade, accompanying him in his tour of Tatarstan were welcomed in Naberezhnye Chelny by OJSC KAMAZ’s managers and the representatives of the city’s administration.
Oleg Savelyev firstly visited KAMAZ’s joint ventures – Federal Mogul Naberezhnye Chelny and ZF KAMA producing details of a cylinder-piston group and gearboxes respectively. Then the guests visited the shops of CUMMINS KAMA Joint Venture, a shop for localization of details for Cummins engines and an engine assembly conveyor in OAO KAMAZ-Diesel, got acquainted with the company’s achievements at the Mother Assembly Conveyor of the Automobile Plant and saw a vehicle show in KAMAZ’s R&D Center. Special attention was paid to the legendary vehicle of the KAMAZ-master team which had many times won in international rallies. In conclusion, the guests visited a number of enterprises located on the area of Industrial Park Master.
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
KAMAZ Vehicles for Defence of Motherland
VI International exhibition of technical means of defence and protection “Russian Defence Expo - 2010” which has opened today in Nizhny Tagil will become one of the most important for OJSC KAMAZ in 2010.
Being the leader of the Russian truck industry and one of the automobile guarantors of defence capability of the Russian Federation, OJSC KAMAZ traditionally takes an active part in defence, military equipment, defensive and protective means shows.
The Kama auto giant will present 4 new models of its specialized equipment and mobile defensive and protective means at the exhibition. The audience will be able to see these multipurpose vehicles with high riding properties ready to fulfill various tasks in the course of a demonstration program in the State Armament and Military Equipment Demonstration and Exhibition Center opened by the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Nizhny Tagil Institute of Metals Testing".
Popular KAMAZ-43118, the basis of the company’s line of all-wheel-drive vehicles, will this time be presented in the version of a high sided vehicle on base case chassis 6013-24 with a restyled cab.
Potential customers will undoubtedly be interested in a modern fire-fighting vehicle AC 8000 on a specially designed KAMAZ-65225-63 chassis with a TZA-Magirus cistern NFL/AC 8000 with a 7500 lit. water tank and a 500 lit. foam tank. This vehicle made jointly with Magirus is the last word of an engineering thought in the fire-fighting automobile industry.
NEFAZ-66062-113-24 fuelling vehicle on KAMAZ-43118 chassis is a vehicle of total capacity designed to transport light oils and fuel vehicles. The chassis is equipped with a 300 hp engine KAMAZ-740.55-300.
ED 100-T400-1RP mobile diesel power plant on the basis of a diesel engine KAMAZ-740-19-200 which found an application in the country’s many economic sectors can also be used in units defending and protecting territories, conducting life-saving and peace-making operations under conditions of military and emergency situations.
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Awards to KAMAZ Workers
Yesterday Vasil Shaykhraziev, the head of the executive committee of Naberezhnye Chelny presented awards to four KAMAZ employees.
An honorary title “Honored Machine Builder of the RT” was given to Valery Adarichev, Deputy Director of Development of OJSC KAMAZ’s technological center, and three workers of the company’s R&D Center – 6-grade turner and borer Nikolay Budilov, head of a department Yury Rubinchik, principal development engineer Nadezhda Tarasova.
According to Valery Adarichev, the received award is a high assessment of all KAMAZ employees’ results. He promised that KAMAZ workers would receive awards in that hall more than once.
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
KAMAZ Participates in Rural Games
KAMAZ took an active part in the 8th All-Russian Summer Rural Sport Games which came to an end in Yelabuga on 12 July.
The leader of the Russian truck industry presented the participants and guests of the Games an extensive exposition of its own production – serial and new models of KAMAZ agricultural equipment from model line 2010.
Victor Zubkov, First Vice-Premier of Russia’s Government saw KAMAZ’s exhibits and noted that it was important and necessary to develop the Russian agricultural equipment.
The visitors appreciated KAMAZ’s displayed two-way dumper with trailer 45143 and three-way dumper on KAMAZ-65115 chassis, bowser 66062-213-24 on KAMAZ-43118 chassis, van 575092-099-99 on KAMAZ-4308 chassis for transportation of carcasses, side tipper combination on KAMAZ-6520 chassis with a dump trailer, dumper with IM-150 crane manipulator on chassis 65117, legendary KAMAZ-6520 dumper.
The models of CNH-KAMAZ Industrial Joint Venture received special attention at the exhibition. These are T 8050 and T 9040 tractor models of the New Holland brand-name and CSX 7080 combine of the same firm.
Monday, 12 July 2010
KAMAZ Production System Spreads All Over Russia
The managers of Automobile Transport Department from Izhevsk visited OJSC KAMAZ.
The guests from the capital city of the Udmurt Republic visited KAMAZ in order to see how KAMAZ implements its Production System in the sphere of cargo transportation. The delegation visited KAMAZ’s Logistic Center and OOO Logistic Center Master situated in Industrial Park Master. After they had visited these enterprises of KAMAZ’s logistic and transport infrastructure the guests noted that KAMAZ workers’ and their partners’ confidence and purposefulness in the development of KAMAZ Production System could serve as an excellent guideline in implementation of “lean production” tools at their enterprises too.
By the way, this spring KAMAZ already received high guests from Udmurtia. Then the managers of many industrial enterprises and departments from the neighbouring republic came to familiarize themselves with the ABC of KAMAZ Production system. This visit of the guests from Izhevsk differed from the previous one in its specifics – now they not only saw “how it works” but also tried to understand how the enterprise exactly uses lean production tools in its transportation management.
Thursday, 08 July 2010
Awards to NEFAZ from Busworld Russia
OAO NEFAZ, the subsidiary of OJSC KAMAZ in Bashkortostan, received the Cup and the Gold Medal of the International Bus Show Busworld Russia which has recently been closed in Nizhny Novgorod.
This international forum of bus producers, the first one of this kind in Russia, was organized by the company Busworld International Limited (Belgium) with the assistance of the International Road Transport Union (IRU). Since 1971 the partners from every corner of the globe have jointly been organizing large exhibitions. For example, Busworld bus shows took place in Mumbai (India), Shanghai (China), Istanbul (Turkey), São Paulo (Brazil).
The Russian début was successful. The producers of passenger buses, trolleybuses and chassis from 13 countries participated in the exhibition: Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, Switzerland, Belgium, Israel, Germany, China, Sweden, Turkey, France, Finland. Businessmen from more than 30 countries visited the show.
NEFAZ (the automobile plant from Neftekamsk) displayed one of the largest expositions at the exhibition. The model line of buses produced by KAMAZ Group was presented there: NEFAZ-5299-30-32 urban bus with the improved interior, NEFAZ-5299-11-32 suburban bus, the same suburban bus with a gas engine, NEFAZ-5299-37-32 interurban bus with the updated exterior. Buses produced by VDL-NEFAZ (NEFAZ-52999 touring bus, NEFAZ-52996 interurban bus, 15-metre-long NEFAZ-52998 urban bus, NEFAZ-52995 articulated bus) took their place in the exposition too.
The culmination of the exposition became presentation with awards and prizes. The Cup and the Gold Medal of the international bus forum presented to OAO NEFAZ is actual recognition of NEFAZ passenger buses on the international level. The daughter enterprise of OJSC KAMAZ is becoming one of the leaders of technological advance in the Russian bus industry.
Wednesday, 07 July 2010
Production System Helps KAMAZ
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On 6 July Yury Klochkov, Deputy Director General of OJSC KAMAZ – CEO held a press conference for local and federal mass media.
In the course of the press conference, Yury Klochkov summed up the results of six working months at KAMAZ, told about the tasks the leader of the Russian truck industry sets itself for the second half-year. It was noted that the Kama auto giant was gradually recovering from the crisis and achieving the production level of 2007 – 160 trucks a day. It should be taken into account though that in 2007 this result was achieved when working in six shifts and today – only in three shifts. Moreover, Yury Klochkov promised that by the end of the year the daily production rate would have increased – up to 180 heavy-duty trucks a day.
According to CEO, current success and optimistic prospects for the future mostly depend on the further development of KAMAZ’s Production System due to which labour productivity and quality of products increase. This year is announced to be the Year of Quality at KAMAZ, and the results are already obvious: the number of reclamations decreased twice.
In conclusion, Yury Klochkov answered the journalists’ questions.
Tuesday, 06 July 2010
KAMAZ for Russia’s Agriculture
KAMAZ participates in the exhibition “Field Day 2010” held on these days in Tatar Research Institute of Agriculture, Kazan.
There are serial and new models of KAMAZ agricultural equipment from model line 2010 in the company’s extensive exposition at the exhibition.
KAMAZ-65117 high-sided truck with carrying capacity of 14 tonnes and NEFAZ-66062 truck tanker with capacity of 11.2 thousand liters on KAMAZ-43118 chassis are equipped with restyled cabs and up-to-date vehicle components produced in Russia and West European countries.
NEFAZ-45143 two-way dump truck is mounted on popular KAMAZ-65115 chassis and used as a part of a combination with SZAP-8551 trailer produced by OAO Avtopritsep-KAMAZ (Stavropol), the subsidiary of OJSC KAMAZ. Another combination – NEFAZ-68904 – is designed on the basis of the well-known chassis KAMAZ-6520 with higher capacity. A heavy-duty side tipper operates with a dump trailer SZAP-8530 in this combination. Truck 575092 on KAMAZ-4308 chassis represents the company’s line of medium-duty vehicles.
OOO Kamsky Tractor Plant and CNH-KAMAZ Industrial Joint Venture also prepared their specimen products for the exhibition. These are tractors of the New Holland brand-name (models T8050 and T9040), and CSX7080 combine by the same company. XTX-185 and XTX-215 tractors took their place among other exhibits on KAMAZ’s stand too.
ED 100-T400-1RP stationary diesel electrical power plant equipped with KAMAZ-740-19-200 engine is used in many economic sectors of the country, including agriculture.
Friday, 02 July 2010
KAMAZ Summed Up June Results
The production units of KAMAZ’s single production string, including mother vehicle and engine assembly conveyors, completed execution of the plan for June.
For the present June is considered to be the best month of 2010 by production volumes and work paces of the main production units. For 21 working days the automobile plant made 3500 vehicle sets (last June they manufactured 1719 units), including 3113 trucks. During the first half-year 15964 vehicle sets were produced in all (last year 10757 units were made) which exceeds performance provided for by the business plan more than by 500 units.
KAMAZ-Diesel manufactured 4134 engines and power units and supplied its consumers with them (last year it produced 1779 units). Output of the main production of the plant from the beginning of the year formed 19.5 thousand units (last year it made 13.36 thousand units).
Last month’s achievement in production and shipment of spare parts was once more exceeded. Dealers, brand automobile centers, service centers and corporative users will receive such products made in June to the tune of over 900 million roubles. From the beginning of the year spare parts of more than 4.5 billion roubles will be shipped (last year spare parts of 3.6 billion roubles were shipped).
This July will become even more intense for KAMAZ production. It is necessary to make a backlog of marketable products: in August the company’s personnel will be placed on paid leave.
Thursday, 01 July 2010
Stronghold of Small- and Medium-Scale Businesses
On 1 July in Naberezhnye Chelny the third line of Industrial Park Master was opened with the participation of Elvira Nabiullina, Russia’s Minister of Economic Development and Trade and Rustam Minnikhanov, President of the Republic of Tatarstan.
IP Master is a stable infrastructure giving a chance to start and develop a business activity under all economic conditions and effectively pursuing the public policy in the sphere of small- and medium-scale entrepreneurship.
The loss of the first word “Kama” with a “regional” meaning in the name of the enterprise (Kama Industrial Park Master) means that IP Master has acquired importance on the All-Russian level. As of July 1, 2010, 137 enterprises with diverse activities – from mechanical engineering to the sphere of services – are the members of Industrial Park. The total turnover of these enterprises for 5 months of 2010 formed 2 billion 228 million roubles. To date 1620 people work at these enterprises.
Today projects for production of brake blocks, hubs and lighting equipment for KAMAZ vehicles are implemented; accumulators are charged and delivered to the conveyor; electronic devices and metal-cutting tools are produced on the territory of Industrial Park Master. There is also a glass factory, building organizations, KAMAZ’s supplier’s consignment warehouse and a furniture factory there.
In addition to the available areas, IP Master will have over 9600 square meters of office areas and 800 office work places, and also more than 88000 square meters of working areas where facilities of 100 new small- and medium-scale businesses will be located and over 1500 new jobs will be created. IP Master will as before support the tenants’ business projects over the whole time of their stay in Industrial Park starting from constituent documents preparation, and provide with comprehensive business planning, including marketing research and search of external financing sources. IP Master will help to attract orders for additional workload of production capacities, secure informational support and resources for implementation of new technologies, and render other services.
Thursday, 01 July 2010