Manfred Kindermann, General Director of KAMAZ Brake Systems LLC, Adviser to General Director of KAMAZ PTC, passed in his 72nd year of life on Saturday, January 28.
KAMAZ became one of important, interesting, successful chapters in Manfred Kindermann’s work history. He was a key contributor to the establishment and advancement of KNORR-BREMSE KAMA Joint Venture at the premises of KAMAZ.
The brake systems producer KNORR-BREMSE KAMA LLC dates its history back to December 2007 when an agreement was signed to form the joint venture in Naberezhnye Chelny. In July 2008, the enterprise launched the production of drum brakes for KAMAZ. Well-handled by General Director Manfred Kindermann, the company has been gradually making progress since that moment.
For the first ten years, the company mastered the production of drum brakes, dampers, hand adjusting levers, air-oil intensifiers, master cylinders, and air dryers. In 2011, the company was certified according to the standard ISO TS 16949, and in 2017, the company became one of the first Russian enterprises certified compliant with the standard IATF 16949: 2016. Under the management of Manfred Kindermann, year by year, the tightly-welded top-notch team reached new frontiers in the industry, implemented new promising projects with success, enhanced product selection.
General Director of KAMAZ PTC Sergey Kogogin expressed his deep condolences to the family, relatives and friends of the deceased. “I will always thank my lucky stars that I had a chance to meet such a business partner as Manfred Kindermann. At all stages of our cooperation, he acted like a real expert and effective manager. An ability to have a productive dialogue based on operational excellence and high responsibility, a talent to rally the troops to attain desired objectives helped him perform well at work. His name left a mark in the history of KAMAZ. The bright memory of Manfred Kindermann and his decent life journey is enshrined in the hearts of his colleagues”, reads the telegram of sympathy.