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