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Quality in Each Casting

A flux cored wire production area was opened at the foundry within the bounds of the project “Flux cored wire ladle modification of cast iron”.

In the iron casting production there is a laboratory of flux cored wire development and production. Line speed is 2 thousand tonnes a year. All operations are unattended. Tests of the first bobbin of flux cored wire showed that the obtained castings are of high quality.

“Now we have the difficult task – to master the manufacture of one of flux cored wire components – a complex modifier “Premix” the fabrication technique of which only Japan producers are able to use, - said Semyon Shnaiderman, project manager. – The replacement of “Premix” by the Russian modifier will make it possible to cut production costs of wire and castings in whole.”

A great achievement of the project is a stable quality of iron castings and reduction of their production costs. It should be recalled that automated forming lines SPO-2 and SPO-4 are transferred to the new casting technique. 80 positions of KAMAZ and initiative nomenclature are found of high-duty cast iron there. Lately the technique was extended to vermicular graphite casting. A range of experimental castings, “cylinder blocks”, “transmission housings”, “splitter housings” are produced at SPO-1.

According to Semyon Shnaiderman, the given vermicular graphite castings are obtained in compliance with technical requirements and, above all, they have equally stable properties. To get the definitive result, in the short run there will be cast pilot batches of castings for mechanical operation.

In the world practice there is no mass production of vermicular graphite castings with the help of the automated process of flux cored wire modification. As specialists explain, the process should be exercised with extremely high precision. If there are the slightest deviations from metallurgical characteristics of the modification process castings are obtained either of gray cast iron or of high-duty cast iron.

Touching the prospects of this large-scale project, the immediate task will be the transfer of the automated forming line HWS-1 to ladle modification. Such castings as “a front axle” of the KAMAZ vehicle will be found of high-duty cast iron here.

The final step will be implementation of ladle modification at two DISAMATIC lines. Then it will be possible to say about the full transfer of high-duty casting at the KAMAZ foundry to the ladle modification technology.

Tuesday, 01 April 2008

Kurgan in Sphere of KAMAZ Service

A new company service center of KAMAZ created with the participation of its dealer – OOO AIH Shturman Credo+ (Naberezhnye Chelny) opened in the Kurgan region on 28 March.

Oleg Bogomolov, Governor of the Kurgan region, and Marat Islamov, Chairman of the Kurgan Regional Duma, participated in the inauguration. The KAMAZ delegation included Islamgarey Shigapov and Ildar Shamilov, Deputies Director General of KAMAZ Inc., Vladimir Samoylov, Director of Information Policy, Ilfas Gatiyatulin, Director General of OAO TFC KAMAZ, Andrey Kolesnikov, Director General of AIP Shturman Credo+.

Like all lately created facilities of KAMAZ equipment maintenance, the Kurgan dealer-service center will provide the customers with the whole complex of necessary services: tuning and sale of vehicles, spare parts, warranty, running and capital repair, diagnostics of components and vehicles in whole. There are over 5 thousand KAMAZ vehicles in the vehicle fleet of the region. And the new center with the total area of 1200 square meters will ensure their maintenance services during the whole operational life.

The center can service 7 vehicles simultaneously. The investment project costs made up RUB 50 million.

Tuesday, 01 April 2008