KAMAZ’s Leave is Over
Today all plants and production units of KAMAZ started working again after the personnel’s monthly corporative paid leave.
After the summer holiday, KAMAZ’s employees will have to work hard. Only in September, they will have to produce and deliver 3582 vehicle sets to customers, corporate clients, dealers, special equipment manufacturers and assembly enterprises abroad. It should be recalled that KAMAZ produced 20278 vehicle sets for seven months of work before the corporative vacation.
KAMAZ’s sales, leasing, production scheduling and preproduction departments didn’t stop working in August. Units engaged in repairs of process equipment and maintenance of production facilities worked in August as well. The monthly recess enabled them to maintain and modernize several large manufacturing entities during their process cycle, as well as to prepare production for winter.
Special attention was paid to preparation for the launch of the Mayak (Beacon) project developed jointly with Daimler, one of the world’s leading truck producers and KAMAZ’s strategic partner. This system of organization and management of production processes is implemented in accordance with the agreement signed by KAMAZ and its German partner. The introduced changes concern first of all the vehicle assembly production, and they will enable to increase vehicle output volumes on one line of the assembly conveyor to 48 thousand units a year by double-shift operation. The second line of the mother gathering conveyor will be free for assembly of modernized vehicles and production of a new model line.
In August, the workers continued construction-and-assembling operations required to launch Mayak. Offices for the company’s LEAN-trainers and areas for information stands were prepared at the Automobile
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Russia’s Best Drivers
The team of OJSC KAMAZ’s Logistics Center gained a signal victory at the Open All-Russian Linehaul Train Drivers’ Competition ASMAP-Profi-2010 and the 3rd competition for the Cup of Mayor of Naberezhnye Chelny 2010 devoted to the 65th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the 90th anniversary of the Republic of Tatarstan.
In October 2003, the managers of the Association of International Road Carriers of Russia (ASMAP) decided to organize the First All-Russian Linehaul Train Drivers’ Competition ASMAP-Profi. The competition has been annually held since then. During a year, preliminary rounds of the competition are held in all Russian federal districts where drivers of the best transport companies, the members of the Association, compete. The umpires of the Automobile Association of Russia referee this competition.
The team of OJSC KAMAZ’s Logistics Center which participated in the competition for the first time took first place among the competitors and won the Cup of Mayor of Naberezhnye Chelny in an uncompromising struggle. Ilnur Idiatullin was in the lead in an individual trial for the competition, and the second step of the podium was taken by another KAMAZ worker – Ivan Petrov.
In experts’ opinion, participating and especially gaining a victory in the competition, the Russian companies can raise their competitive capacity and get obvious advantages in a struggle on the international market of transportation services.
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
KAMAZ’s Records in Ukraine
KAMAZ became the absolute sales leader on the Ukrainian market in its class of trucks.
AUTO-Consulting Information and Analytical Group informs that the company took 54.9% in the segment of trucks with GVW of over 16 tonnes, according to the results for a period from the beginning of 2010. This is the company’s best result for all years of its work from the day when the country declared its independency. Over a year, KAMAZ’s share has grown by 24.6%.
A KAMAZ-45143 agricultural dump truck became the leader in the truck sales rating; its share in sales forms 41.5%. Due to the predicted development of Ukraine’s agriculture, this model is in great demand this year. The country’s landowners not without reason believe that the KAMAZ-45143 is not inferior to the world’s best analogues in all respects, and KAMAZ’s wide network of service centers in the country and accessibility of spare parts make this model even more popular.
KAMAZ has considerably strengthened its positions selling trucks with 8-16 t GVW as well, having increased its share by 7.7% – to 39.3% – for a year.
KAMAZ renewed its previous record in the overall truck sales rating (all classes of total weight and payload) too, having achieved 18.1%.
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Long-Distance Truck Drivers’ Competition at KAMAZ’s Home
Today and tomorrow, the 7th open All-Russian Linehaul Train Drivers’ Competition – ASMAP-Profi-2010 – among enterprises of the Volga Federal District and competitions for the Cup of Mayor of Naberezhnye Chelny 2010 devoted to the 65th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the 90th anniversary of Tatarstan will take place in Naberezhnye Chelny.
This evening, the competitors will parade along the city’s avenues and streets. There will be race cars of KAMAZ-master team, vehicles of vintage car clubs, and bikes of bikers’ and cyclists’ clubs in one rank with linehaul trains. This cavalcade will be accompanied by a truck with the Visit Brass Band of Tatarstan’s Ministry of the Interior.
At 10 a.m. tomorrow, the competition will be opened on the city’s Maidan where traditional national holidays and great cultural events are usually held. The referees of the competition will be representatives of the Auto Racing Federation (Moscow) under the direction of Firdaus Kabirov, the RF Honoured Master of Sports, a laureate of the State Prize, a repeated prize-winner of the Dakar International Rally-Raid.
At the same time, the city’s young go-karters, sky surfers, pupils of an equestrian sport school will show their skills before an audience on the Maidan. Workers of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate and the Special Purpose Police Unit will demonstrate road accident prevention activities. When the referee’s board sums up the results of the competition, the spectators will be able to participate in a contest named “The Russian Super Hauler” trying to drag haulers.
Next to the Maidan, in front of a shopping centre, a contest of children’s drawings will be organized – “Kids Draw Victory!”. It is also planned to hold a charity event under a motto “Russia’s Long-Haul Truckers to Children” in the course of which assistance will be rendered to a lot of families bringing up children with disabilities.
Friday, 27 August 2010
OJSC KAMAZ – Time-Proved!
Today it is 20 years since Joint Stock Company KAMAZ was established.
It was on August 23, 1990 when the City Council of People’s Deputies of Naberezhnye Chelny issued Certificate No. 1 of registration of Joint Stock Company KAMAZ (JSC KAMAZ) to State Production Association KamAZ. Since that day the company has been self-sufficient.
Meanwhile, KAMAZ became the first large denationalized enterprise not only in Naberezhnye Chelny, but in the whole former USSR. The party-and-state decision to reform PA KamAZ into JSC KAMAZ was made in June 1990.
In 1996, in accordance with the RF Law “On Joint Stock Companies”, the company acquired its current name – Open Joint Stock Company KAMAZ (OJSC KAMAZ). Later, in 1998, most of plants and large departments of KAMAZ’s single technological cycle were also turned into joint stock companies and received the status of the company’s subsidiaries (OJSC, CJSC or LLC).
So, OJSC KAMAZ formed its group which to date includes over 150 organizations located in Russia, the CIS countries and far abroad. In the 21st century the company has become international: now 7 joint ventures with the participation of foreign capital function on its production base.
Monday, 23 August 2010
Modernized KAMAZ for 50 Thousand Roubles a Month!
Leasing Company KAMAZ makes consumers another one unique offer. Now, a monthly payment for a new KAMAZ vehicle with a revised construction and a restyled cab will form 50 thousand roubles exactly, regardless of its overall cost.
The Russian market of automotive equipment leasing is gradually recovering overcoming subsiding consequences of the global financial crisis. One of the leaders in this segment of the domestic leasing market – Leasing Company KAMAZ Inc. – offers users a good innovation – a fixed amount of payment. A lessee will pay 50 thousand roubles a month for a leased modernized KAMAZ truck. A price difference is regulated at the expense of a term and an initial payment. Depending on the cost of the leased truck, the lessee will have to pay for it within 32-44 months. The initial payment makes 25-30% of the cost of the vehicle. The new program of Leasing Company KAMAZ Inc. extends to all modernized KAMAZ vehicles with restyled cabs.
According to Alfia Kogoghina, Director General of Leasing Company KAMAZ Inc., the system of fixed payments will enable the lessee to promptly see the benefit from the leased KAMAZ equipment having compared income and expenditure of his/her activity.
The policy of Leasing Company KAMAZ is a part of OJSC KAMAZ’s complex program for promotion of a number of brand-name modernized vehicles with improved technical and performance characteristics.
Terms of payment for leased modernized KAMAZ vehicles, examples of calculation
| Model | KAMAZ 4308-064-96 |
|---|---|
| Cost | 1,533,811 |
| Advance | 460,000.00 |
| Payment | 50,000.00 |
| Term | 32 months |
| Model | KAMAZ 65115-6056-78 N3 |
|---|---|
| Cost | 1,968,806.40 |
| Advance | 590,000.00 |
| Payment | 50,000.00 |
| Term | 45 months |
| Model | KAMAZ 65117-011-62 |
|---|---|
| Cost | 1,660,684.80 |
| Advance | 500,000.00 |
| Payment | 50,000.00 |
| Term | 36 months |
| Model | KAMAZ 5460-036-63 |
|---|---|
| Cost | 1,744,512 |
| Advance | 520,000.00 |
| Payment | 50,000.00 |
| Term | 40 months |
Monday, 23 August 2010
On KAMAZ in the Netherlands
On 22 August, Vladimir Chaguin, pilot of the KAMAZ-master team, sixfold winner of Dakar rally raids, will participate on his racing KAMAZ in the Bavaria City Racing show in Rotterdam.
Bavaria City Racing traditional shows where Formula 1 pilots and truck racers participate have been held in the Netherlands since 2005. They are by right named one of the country’s largest sporting events.
– I took part in a similar show in Moscow already twice, – Vladimir said before his departure for the country of tulips. – And both times these remarkable performances made the best impressions on me. They gave many Russian fans of auto racing a chance to see the most high-powered and interesting vehicles in the world. This year, in spite of the heat, the great sporting event gathered a lot of spectators. It was unusual to meet Gerard de Rooy not at the rally, but here in the homeland, on the laps around the Kremlin. I think that the audience was pleased. So, I accepted Gerard’s offer to participate in the show in Rotterdam with pleasure.
Friday, 20 August 2010
Turkmenistan’s Delegation at KAMAZ
Today Turkmenistan’s governmental delegation headed by Nazarguly Shagulyev, Vice-Chairman of Turkmenistan’s Cabinet of Ministers visited KAMAZ.
The delegation included representatives of Turkmenistan’s political and scientific élite. During their visit to KAMAZ’s manufacturing entities, they were accompanied by Ravil Zaripov, Tatarstan’s Minister of Economy and Industry and Sergey Kogoghin, Director General of OJSC KAMAZ.
The guests saw an exhibition of modern models of the company’s automobile and other equipment in KAMAZ’s R&D Center. Prototype models of KAMAZ vehicles with automatic gearboxes and agricultural equipment attracted special attention there. The Turkmen delegation saw mother assembly conveyors of the automobile plant and KAMAZ-Diesel on KAMAZ’s main production site. The guests also visited a shop for localization of details for Cummins engines at CUMMINS KAMA Russian-American Joint Venture. Then they were shown the models of new KAMAZ vehicles in operation on the proving ground.
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Fire-Fighting Equipment on KAMAZ Chassis Approved by Tatarstan’s President
In the course of the first world championship for fire and rescue sport among youths held in Kazan from 5 to 10 August 2010, KAMAZ special equipment received high appraisal from the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan.
One of the main exhibits of KAMAZ’s exposition was AC 8000 fire-fighting vehicle on dedicated KAMAZ-65225-63 chassis with TZA-Magirus cistern (NFL/AC 8000 model) with a water tank for 7,500 litres and a foam tank for 500 litres.
Also the visitors could see three kinds of fire-extinguishing tankers with different performance characteristics enabling to solve the broadest spectrum of tasks. First of all, this is AC-3,0-40 tank truck on KAMAZ-4308 chassis equipped with Cummins engine and intended for transportation of fire-fighting teams, emergency, rescue, fire-fighting and lighting equipment, and also fire-fighting agents. The other two presented tank trucks on KAMAZ-43253 chassis (4x2): AC-4,5-40 and AC-3,2-40/4 have a good reputation of a fire-fighting vehicle with balanced characteristics.
Specialists highly appraised KAMAZ equipment meant for transportation of fire-fighting and rescue teams, special equipment and tools, communication and lighting facilities, and equipment for protection of EMERCOM’s personnel to the sites of fire or emergency: 150VR model of TM-12 mobile ladder (on KAMAZ-43118 chassis) and 130VR model of AL-52 aerial ladder on KAMAZ-65201 chassis (8x4).
KAMAZ also presented PPP-32 foam delivery device on KAMAZ-53228 chassis (6x6) meant for delivery of water or mechanical foam in tanks with a volume up to 20,000 cubic meters at process installations of the oil, oil-refining, petrochemical industry with a height up to 60m, and also in industrial and residential buildings and structures.
During the event, a batch of modern equipment for firefighting passed into customers’ ownership: 10 fire-extinguishing tankers AC-3,2-40/4 (001-MS “Rozenbauer” model) on KAMAZ-43253 chassis purchased in equal shares on federal and republican budgetary money were delivered to EMERCOM.
The delegation from the Republic of Tatarstan headed by its President Rustam Minnikhanov was present at the ceremony. Tatarstan’s President Rustam Minnikhanov highly appreciated the potential of 130VR model of AL-52 aerial ladder (KAMAZ-65201) and announced an intention to purchase a batch of such equipment for Tatarstan’s EMERCOM subdivisions.
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
KAMAZ Vehicles for South Ossetia
Yesterday Foreign Trade Company KAMAZ delivered the first batch of KAMAZ trucks made against a contract for delivery of 50 units of equipment to the Republic of South Ossetia.
The representatives of Republican State Unitary Enterprise “Authority of Motor Transport – South Ossetia” (RGUP “UAT – South Ossetia”) and Committee of State Supply of South Ossetia received 5 dumpers on KAMAZ-65115 chassis and 3 KAMAZ-6520 dumpers. The contract provides for delivery of different kinds of transport vehicles and special equipment on KAMAZ chassis. In years of military operations the truck fleet of the Caucasian republic was almost annihilated, and upon completion of this contract execution by KAMAZ the number of trucks in South Ossetia will practically double.
RGUP “UAT – South Ossetia”, the recipient of the vehicles, signed a dealer agreement with KAMAZ, and this organization will further promote KAMAZ’s production in the republic. The parties plan to restore the company’s service base in South Ossetia. The representatives of KAMAZ will teach local specialists and drivers the rules of operation and maintenance of modern KAMAZ equipment, and the company’s Caucasian partner will prepare a resource base for the service center.
Friday, 06 August 2010
KAMAZ for Firemen
In the course of the 1st world championship for fire and rescue sport among youths which will be held at the stadium “Trudovye Rezervy” in Kazan from 5 to 10 August, the participants and audience will be able to see modern fire-fighting equipment on KAMAZ chassis.
AC 8000 fire-engine on dedicated KAMAZ-65225-63 chassis with TZA-Magirus cistern (NFL/AC 8000) with a water tank for 7500 litres and a foam tank for 500 litres will be of interest to those present. This is the last word in fire-fighting automobile industry.
KAMAZ’s fire-fighting truck tankers of various brands are intended for transportation of fire-fighting teams, emergency, rescue, fire-fighting and lighting equipment, and also fire-fighting agents. Truck tankers of the following brands will be presented at the exhibition for the 1st world championship for fire and rescue sport: AC-3,0-40 on KAMAZ-4308 chassis, AC-4,5-40 on KAMAZ-43253 chassis, AC-3,2-40/4 on KAMAZ-43253 chassis (4x2). These models have specifications important for modern fire-fighting equipment, but difficult to combine and balance: they are cross-country, handy, space-saving, high-capacity, heavy-payload, and, besides, easy-to-operate and serviceable.
TM-12 mobile ladder (150VR) on KAMAZ-43118 chassis stands out against a background of other exhibits. It helps to evacuate people from buildings and structures, carry out wrecking at a height up to 12m above ground level, lay fire hose lines to the same height omitting flights of stares.
PPP-32 foam delivery device on KAMAZ-53228 chassis (6x6) is meant for delivery of water or mechanical foam in tanks with a volume up to 20 thousand cubic meters at process installations of the oil, oil-refining, petrochemical industry with a height up to 60m, and also in industrial and residential buildings and structures.
High-technology AL-52 aerial ladder (130VR) on KAMAZ-65201 chassis (8x4) is intended for transportation of firemen to places of fire-fighting and rescue of people from high-rise buildings. A video camera is mounted on a fire-fighting monitor for visual control of ladder movements and fire extinguishing. The ladder is equipped with a hydraulic automatic alignment system enabling to place the ladder horizontally for 30 seconds.
The models exhibited in Kazan are an integral set of fire-prevention equipment on different KAMAZ chassis which, in point of fact, answers firefighters’ all requirements.
Thursday, 05 August 2010
KAMAZ’s Director General Visits Ashgabat
Sergey Kogoghin, Director General of OJSC KAMAZ has visited Turkmenistan’s capital Ashgabat as a member of Tatarstan’s delegation headed by Rustam Minnikhanov, Tatarstan’s President.
Tatarstan’s delegation included Cabinet Ministers and general directors of Tatarstan’s largest enterprises. Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, Turkmenistan’s President met with Rustam Minnikhanov, and later received Tatarstan’s delegation in his residence. According to RIA Novosti, at this meeting Mr. Berdymukhamedov said that Turkmenistan planned to purchase more than one thousand vehicles and units of special equipment bearing the trademark of KAMAZ. “We thank you for your support rendered to KAMAZ at the most difficult time,” Rustam Minnikhanov said in answer. “We always tell about it, and KAMAZ is ready to work further for the benefit of your country.”
Development of cooperation with Turkmenistan was always of priority importance for KAMAZ’s foreign-economic activity. Since the time when independence was declared and especially for the last 4 years the brotherly country has turned into one of the largest consumers of automobile equipment bearing the trademark of KAMAZ. The company has the widest line of production models and special equipment for all economic sectors and is ready to satisfy its users’ almost all requirements.
To date Turkmenistan’s fleet of KAMAZ vehicles numbers about 8 thousand units. KAMAZ became a dominating supplier of trucks, and Turkmenistan became the best exporter of KAMAZ’s production in 2009. At the height of the global economic crisis the fraternal country was KAMAZ’s only importer which managed to maintain the level of purchases of the year 2008.
In 2007-2010 KAMAZ realized over 4500 units of equipment in Turkmenistan, including a whole number of dumpers, heavy and all-wheel drive vehicles, and also the whole gamut of special equipment on KAMAZ chassis. The customers of KAMAZ’s production are the ministries of the country’s oil-and-gas complex, the ministry of defence, the ministry of motor transport, etc. The average kilometrage of the new vehicles has already formed 200 thousand km (about 124,274 miles). The coefficient of operation of the trucks makes 0.9 which indicates high reliability of KAMAZ equipment under hard usage conditions in deserts and mountains.
In response to large-scale investment projects and high dynamics of development of the country’s basic economic sectors, considering Turkmenistan’s potential demand for trucks, KAMAZ offers consumers the whole range of trucks, high level of service and efficient parts supply investing development of its commodity distribution and service network in Turkmenistan.
In 2006 ZAO Foreign-Trade Company KAMAZ opened its representative office in Ashgabat – KAMAZ FTC Corp. In July 2007 Training and Service Center KAMAZ was put into operation. Volume of investment in its construction made up 8 billion US dollars. The center is fitted out with modern equipment and intended for maintenance of 1000 vehicles a year. 150 people work there. The Turkmen specialists were trained at the center to operate special equipment produced by the main Russian plants. Besides, the Turkmen drivers operating KAMAZ vehicles with Cummins engines and ZF gearboxes were trained there, and also at KAMAZ’s production base in Naberezhnye Chelny. A spare parts store was established on the territory of Training and Service Center KAMAZ in Ashgabat. There are service centers in Balkanabat, Mary, Daşoguz, and Turkmenabat as well.
OJSC KAMAZ makes its contribution to training of technicians for Turkmenistan in other industries too. In compliance with the agreements reached, a group of students from Turkmenistan is now being trained at the expense of OJSC KAMAZ at the automotive department of Kama State Engineering and Economics Academy in Naberezhnye Chelny, 6 future specialists more are completing the formalities. In May 2009 a metallurgical works was opened in Ovadan-Depe (near Ashgabat). This is a firstling of Turkmenistan’s big metallurgy. In September 2009 the Turkmen party handed over the technical administration of the enterprise to KAMAZ. In October pilot production was started at the plant by KAMAZ jointly with the Turkmen experts. Within 9 months 37 thousand tonnes of workpieces were made, 24 thousand tonnes of accessories and 10 thousand tonnes of shapes were produced. The metallurgical production has reached the rate of 10 melts a day.
Wednesday, 04 August 2010
KAMAZ Congratulates Partner on Anniversary
Sergey Kogoghin, Director General of OJSC KAMAZ congratulated the Vietnamese partners upon the fiftieth anniversary of the plant on the basis of which the assembly of KAMAZ vehicles – Vinacomin Motor Industry Joint Stock Company (VMIC) – was later established.
Vietnam was always one of strategically important and priority foreign markets for KAMAZ. This country is still the basis for development of KAMAZ’s external economic relation and business in the entire Asia-Pacific region. The representative office of ZAO Foreign Trade Company KAMAZ works in Hanoi. In 2003 Vinacomin State Corporation became OJSC KAMAZ’s partner in Vietnam. The assembly of KAMAZ vehicles – VMIC – was established in Cam Pha, Quang Ninh Province. In 2008 OJSC KAMAZ increased its share in the JV from 12.5% to 36%. In 2009 KAMVIA trade and service company was established.
The production facilities, buildings, shops of the plant were projected and constructed by the former USSR. To date the production capacities additionally use new technologies imported from Germany, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Finland, Great Britain. Two assembly conveyors can annually produce up to 1500 vehicles with payload of 13 – 30 tonnes. Production of details and spare parts for assembled vehicles is being localized. VMIC operates according to ISO 9001-2000 standards. Its products conform to the requirements of Vietnam’s regulations and international standards.
To date about 15 thousand KAMAZ vehicles are used in Vietnam. Almost 2 thousand of them were assembled at JV VMIC with the use of vehicle assembly sets delivered from Naberezhnye Chelny and produced at VMIC.
Tuesday, 03 August 2010
KAMAZ Sums Up July Results
In July 2010 KAMAZ’s production and sales services overfulfilled their plans for output of the basic products.
Within a month 4176 vehicle sets were made. This is a peak output for 2010. Since the beginning of the year 20253 vehicle sets have been produced which is half as much again as for 7 months of 2009.
All productions of KAMAZ worked hard because the company’s employees planned to go on annual leave in August. It was necessary to create a monthly backlog of the basic commercial trucks and chassis for special equipment manufacturing, and the employees had to work even on Saturdays on two lines of the mother assembly conveyor.
As a result, the production plans of the company’s main plants were overfulfilled at all points, and the stock of vehicles and chassis of the required quantity and models was created in storehouses of Trade and Finance Company and Foreign Trade Company KAMAZ.
This year KAMAZ-Diesel produced and delivered to its customers almost 24 thousand engines and power units – by 43% more than for the same period of last year. KAMAZ’s customers will receive spare parts manufactured for the first 7 months of the year to the tune of 5 billion 452 million roubles – this is one third as much as last year’s performance in comparable prices.
Tuesday, 03 August 2010
KAMAZ Vehicles as Soon as Possible
Leasing Company KAMAZ provided its storehouse with the most popular and called-for KAMAZ automobile models.
In July Leasing Company KAMAZ added over 50 units of equipment to its store of KAMAZ vehicles. At the moment LC KAMAZ can offer a wide variety of KAMAZ automobile equipment from the storehouse in Naberezhnye Chelny. This event is a graphic illustration of LC KAMAZ’s policy seeking to supply customers leasing KAMAZ vehicles with required products as soon as possible.
To date Leasing Company KAMAZ offers its corporate clients a complex product, including development of vehicles on the customer’s request, the Trade-In program, maintenance services. The conditions of leasing of KAMAZ automobile equipment provide for an advance payment of 20% of the original cost and execution of the leasing contract for a period of up to 42 months with an inflation index of 7%.
Monday, 02 August 2010