Production, commercial, financial and economic results KAMAZ Group has obtained for 11 months indicate that in 2011 the company will surpass the main results of activities for 2010 by 30 or more percent and recover to pre-crisis levels by the pace of business development.
KAMAZ Announces Results for 11 Months
16.12.2011New Inclined-Axis Mixer from TZA
16.12.2011Tuimazinskiy Zavod Avtobetonovozov, KAMAZ’s subsidiary located in the Republic of Bashkortostan, added a new model based on a KAMAZ-43118 all-wheel drive chassis to the line-up of its 6 cbm inclined-axis mixers.
KAMAZ Introduces New Technologies
16.12.2011OJSC KAMAZ’s subsidiaries and joint ventures set up with foreign automakers continue to actively introduce new technologies in production processes that can significantly improve the quality of units and components.
KAMAZ at Interpolitex’2011
26.10.2011The leader of the Russian automobile industry – KAMAZ – is taking part in the 15th International Exhibition of Means of State Security Provision Interpolitex’2011 which opened in Moscow yesterday.
KAMAZ attaches importance to participation in specialized exhibitions where achievements of Russian producers of military and special-purpose machinery are demonstrated annually. Being Russia’s largest truck producer, the company is considered by the state as a guarantor of its transport safety. OJSC KAMAZ is one of 18 strategically important enterprises of the Russian economy. Various modifications of mobile and high-tech KAMAZ chassis and vehicles are used in sub-units of all power structures and security services of the state. The company has gained 30 years of experience in the sphere of their development and production. KAMAZ is currently designing vehicles of the new generation.
KAMAZ will present two vehicles at the Interpolitex’2011 exhibition: KAMAZ-43269 “Vystrel” and KAMAZ-53501 with a multilift system ML6.01.
Half of Blue Corridor is Passed
26.10.2011KAMAZ continues participating in the annual motor race of bottle-gas driven vehicles Blue Corridor which started a week ago at the Urals to finish in Moscow.
The total length of the route is 3.5 thousand kilometers, half of which has already been passed. The racing vehicles have already visited such cities as Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Ufa, Orenburg, and Samara.
The racers got a warm welcome in Samara. Since the main aim of the race is to attract attention of regional and municipal authorities to advantages of the use of gas as automobile fuel, a round-table meeting was organized in the city to discuss the topic “Methane is motor fuel for municipal vehicles”. It is natural that OJSC KAMAZ participates in Blue Corridor and the round-table meeting, as the company’s interests coincide with those of organizers of the race.
Besides KAMAZ, representatives of JSC GAZPROM, the government of Samara Oblast and Samara’s administration, managers of industrial and motor carriers participated in the event. In the course of the press conference the administrators of the region and the representatives of GAZPROM signed the Memorandum of Understanding the main point of which is to develop and promote transition of vehicles to natural gas.
It should be recalled that the column of participants includes 18 vehicles in all – trucks, motor vehicles and buses. A low-entrance city bus NEFAZ, a garbage truck on a KAMAZ chassis and a dual-purpose vehicle with a crane manipulator on a KAMAZ chassis participate represent Naberezhnye Chelny in the auto race. The vehicles were developed jointly with OOO RariTEK, KAMAZ’s partner in the production of CNG vehicles
Wednesday, 26 October 2011
ARMORED KAMAZ BUS 6X6
23.10.2011
BRAND NEW ARMORED KAMAZ-43118, 6X6, OFF-ROAD, BALLISTIC PROTECTION LEVEL B6 (GOST 5), 32 PASSENGER CHAIRS, A/C
KAMAZ at Quality Conference
21.10.2011OJSC KAMAZ participated in the interregional scientific and practical conference “Quality and Technical Regulation” which was held yesterday in Kazan within the limits of the World Quality Day and the European Quality Week.
The conference organized to increase competitiveness of Russian enterprises and organizations was held under the auspices of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Tatarstan. It gathered more than 200 people – managers of enterprises, representatives of ministries, educational and public institutions of Russia, Tatarstan, Chuvashia, Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod and Samara Oblasts.
OJSC KAMAZ participated there not by chance. In the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan highly appreciated the company’s successful measures to meet international quality standards and invited the top managers of the auto giant to share their experience. KAMAZ was represented at the conference by Alexander Abramenko, Director of Quality Department, who spoke about “The system of assessment of product quality at production enterprises” there.
Within the frameworks of the conference, a republican contest “The best quality assurance manager of the Republic of Tatarstan’2011” was held. Having taken the lead over all competitors and shown the best results, Sergey Shanin, Deputy Director of Quality Department of OJSC KAMAZ, became a winner.
Credit Agreement is Signed
21.10.2011On Friday, October 14, KAMAZ Financial Services GmbH, Austria, signed a revolving credit agreement with the Swiss bank Credit Suisse to finance imports and exports in the interests of OJSC KAMAZ for the sum of €10 million in the general directorate of KAMAZ, Naberezhnye Chelny.
According to Klaus Merz, Director of Export Finance, Credit Suisse Bank, who participated in the signing of the agreement, this is only the first step they took in their supposedly long-term cooperation with KAMAZ’s daughter enterprise. Klaus Merz emphasized that the agreement was signed due to their successful partnership, as well as high reputation and expertise of the managers of KAMAZ Financial Services GmbH and OJSC KAMAZ.
KAMAZ Financial Services GmbH is a subsidiary of OJSC KAMAZ which provides services of structured finance and investment in the interests of the parent company. On factoring terms, KAMAZ Financial Services delivered to KAMAZ imported parts from companies Oerlikon Graziano (axles, Italy), BorgWarner Cooling Systems (fans, viscous couplings, Germany), Robert Seuffer (cruise controls, Germany). It is also planned to parts from companies KINEX (bearings, Slovakia), NDGS GmbH – Noviy Disel Gearbox Service (gearboxes, Germany).
Credit Suisse is one of Europe’s largest banks. Its profit amounted to 5 billion Swiss francs (5.5 billion U.S. dollars) last year. The lending agency has got branches and representative offices in 50 countries and employs 50 thousand people.
21.10.2011
The commission of assessors, who during several days inspected departments of the company against the criteria of the EFQM Excellence model, finished its work at KAMAZ.
It should be recalled that OJSC KAMAZ participates in the contest of the European Foundation of Quality Management (EFQM). According to Director of Quality of OJSC KAMAZ Alexander Abramenko, the competition allows the companies to understand their strong and weak points, use the results of self-evaluation to further improve their activities, and ensure transparency of reports for interested parties, including public authorities, in accordance with their requirements. In addition, it will provide top managers with enough adequate information for timely and effective decision-making, and help them correctly predict the future of their companies. The contest also has a positive impact on the image: according to its results, the company receives a certain degree of perfection.
KAMAZ decided to participate in the competition in December 2010. The inspection, which has recently took place on these days, was preceded by a «selection» procedure, in the course of which the organizing committee of the competition considered the report prepared by the company. As a result, it was decided to send assessors to KAMAZ. The expert group included Yuriy Gusakov, Committee Chairman, First Vice-President of Russian Organization for Quality, EFQM representative in Russia, Galina Ivanova, Deputy Director General of the Federal Government Institution «Center for Testing and Certification – St. Petersburg», Natalia Olkhovikova, Deputy Director of International Certification Service, and Larisa Kuzmina, Deputy Director of Quality Systems Department of Vodokanal of St. Petersburg.
In the course of the inspection, the commission visited the departments of quality, labor relations and personnel development, production management, purchasing and logistics, public relations, the service of strategic development, the corporate university, the committee on production systems development, research and development center, the automobile plant, and other facilities of the company. The first results of the inspection were announced at the closing meeting held in the executive director’s office of KAMAZ.
KAMAZ Leads On Ukrainian Market
12.09.2011KAMAZ took the lead having increased its share up to 45 percent on the
Ukrainian market of trucks with a payload of over 16 tons in July.
According to AUTO-Consulting Information-Analytical Group, having sold 247
vehicles in July, the Russian automaker took 44.67% of the Ukrainian market in
the segment of heavy trucks. Moreover, KAMAZ pressed its competitors in the
sector of trucks with a carrying capacity of 8-16 tons, in which it took 42.86%
at the end of July.
The main models which are popular in Ukraine are still agricultural trucks
KAMAZ-45142, KAMAZ-45143, and KAMAZ-45144. In July, they took 39.24% of the
whole Ukrainian market of trucks with a payload of over 16 tons. These models
are chosen by Ukrainian agricultural holdings and farmers who usually actively
buy vehicles in summer. In July, customers also bought high-sided trucks
KAMAZ-53215 and KAMAZ-65117, heavy trucks KAMAZ-65115 and KAMAZ-6520, KAMAZ
chassis on which Ukrainian plants produce special equipment.
In general, 7 months of 2011 have seen steady growth in sales of KAMAZ
vehicles on the Ukrainian market. 554 cars were sold in the segment of trucks
with GVW of over 16 tons in January-July 2011, which is by 43.9% more than
during the same period of 2010. With a share of 35 percent, KAMAZ is the leader
in this segment.
For the last 7 months of 2011, KAMAZ has sold by 45% more vehicles than for
the same period of 2010 in the segment of trucks with a GVW of 8-16 tons. The
share of the Russian company in the segment of medium-duty trucks is more than
20%, according to the results of 7 months.
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