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This week, KAMAZ will begin vaccinating its employees against coronavirus infection. The procedure will be free and voluntary.

According to Alexander Ushenin, Deputy General Director for Personnel Management and Organizational Development, there is an agreement with the City Health Department to allocate 2000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus infection to KAMAZ. According to the results of the survey, about 3.5 thousand employees of KAMAZ are already ready to be vaccinated.

«With the Head of the Health Department of Naberezhnye Chelny, Alexander Nikolaev, we agreed that paramedics from city polyclinics will come to the factory medical posts to vaccinate KAMAZ residents, – explained Alexander Ushenin. – Vaccination at work will allow our employees not to be distracted from work and not to spend time and money on trips to clinics».

The Head also noted that the company’s medical centers are ready for the procedure: repairs were made and the necessary refrigeration equipment was purchased (the drug requires strict storage conditions at a temperature no higher than minus 18 °C). The start of vaccination depends on the time of receipt of the vaccine in the city. The vaccination campaign is scheduled to start this week, according to requests from the departments. As soon as the vaccine is available, all requests will be fulfilled.

The next batch of tank container trucks on the chassis of KAMAZ-VANKOR 6522-RT was delivered to a large oilfield service company.
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Tank container truck is one of the key vehicles for hydraulic fracturing. Its main purpose is transportation, self-loading-unloading and installation of special tanks with a volume of 50 m3 for liquid and bulk reagents used for injection into wells of special solutions in the production of hydraulic fracturing.

This special vehicle is also used for transportation and independent loading and unloading of block equipment, special containers with chemical reagents, high-pressure manifolds and other large-sized equipment used during hydraulic fracturing and in other oil and gas service technologies.

Following the diesel inline engine for the KAMAZ trucks of the K5 generation, the company has begun research tests of a prototype inline gas engine that uses natural gas as fuel. Today, the development of R6 gas engines for prime movers is underway. In the future, it will be possible to install them on all modifications of vehicles of the family.
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Preliminary results of tests of the prototype of the KAMAZ R6 gas engine on the assessment of emissions of harmful substances with exhaust gases showed the achievability of environmental standards “Euro-6” which is possible thanks to applied in the design of exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) and three way catalytic neutralizer.
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The rated power of the new engine is 450 hp, the maximum torque is 1850 N*m, the planned service interval is up to 100,000 km.
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The launch of the R6 gas engine into mass production is planned in 2022.