New facility for truck interior and exterior parts launched in Tatarstan
In Naberezhnye Chelny, the Tehnotron Industrial Trade and Financial Company launched a new facility for the production of interior, exterior parts, and automotive components for KAMAZ, GAZ, and other automakers.
With the attraction of loans from the Industrial Development Fund, the company has established the production of exterior and interior parts for new KAMAZ trucks of K5 series: front bumpers, facing panels, and dashboards. The production capacity is 40,000 sets per year. The full-scale deliveries of products are scheduled for 2021.
The company has also expanded the production of other auto components such as viscous couplings of various modifications, traction couplings, and fifth wheel couplings. Their output exceeds 15,000 parts per year. The products are intended for trucks of KAMAZ, GAZ, Ural, and Daimler plants operating in Russia.
Earlier, the IDF provided the company with two preferential loans totalling RUB 272 million under the Component Products programme at 1% per annum in the first three years and 5% for the remaining term of the loan. The aggregate investment in the new production facilities exceeded RUB 400 million.
The IDF resources were used to purchase up-to-date equipment, including injection moulding machines for plastic products, a high-duty robotic painting line, as well as a robotic line for the manufacture of dashboard parts from soft polyurethane foam.