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The famous Kama Automotive Plant, KAMAZ, is celebrating its 50th anniversary.

The company was founded in 1969 and gradually turned into a huge complex of facilities manufacturing state-of-the-art heavy-duty vehicles. Over the half-century history of KAMAZ, its trucks have earned universal recognition both in Russia and abroad.

Anniversary events started in Naberezhnye Chelny on December 5, 2019. A concert was held in the city’s Organ Hall with the participation of Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Ildar Mingaleyev, representatives of government authorities, as well as current and retired employees of the company. The Tatarstan President presented State awards to distinguished professionals. The KAMAZ staff received the Order of Merit to the Republic of Tatarstan.

On December 13, 2019, the cycle of celebrations will continue at the automotive plant with the participation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Minister of Industry and Trade of Russia Denis Manturov, and other officials.

We sincerely congratulate the employees of KAMAZ on the anniversary date!

In November, KAMAZ won second place in the prestigious category “Big Business: High-Tech Exporter of the Year” as part of the Exporter of the Year 2019 Award.

In total, more than 1600 applications from all federal districts were submitted for the Exporter of the Year Award established by the Russian Federation Government. Exporters claimed victory in such categories as “Exporter of the Year in Manufacturing Industry”, “High-Tech Exporter of the Year”, “Exporter of the Year in Agriculture”, “Exporter of the Year in Services”, “New Geography” and “Breakthrough of the Year”. More than 70% of participants are SMEs.

KAMAZ, world-famous for its trucks and automotive components, took silver in the big business hi-tech exporter category. The company, whose products are shipped to over 50 countries, recorded new exported products and the receipt of five European certificates of approval.

Winners of the Award will be granted various bonuses from the Russian Export Centre. Among them are personal support of negotiations with foreign partners in foreign markets; bonus tariff for servicing an export contract; registration at a foreign marketplace; training under the acceleration programme based on the Export School in Moscow, as well as a wide range of information support measures for exporters.

Based on information by Russian Export Centre

Today, a new production line of UzAuto Trailer for the assembly of KAMAZ chassis was launched in the city of Samarkand (Republic of Uzbekistan).

The opening ceremony was attended by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov, Samarkand Region Governor Erkinjon Turdimov, CEO of KAMAZ Sergey Kogogin, and others.

The guests to the event made a tour of the KAMAZ assembly shop, the mounted and trailed equipment workshop, component assembly lines, gas cylinder equipment assembly section, and saw a model range of trucks and municipal machinery that is expected to be manufactured by the automotive enterprise.

The assembly line is arranged in a new production building, with a total area of ​​7,000 square metres. The line is equipped with up-to-date processing and auxiliary equipment, allowing to ensure production output of more than 3,000 trucks a year.

During the ceremony, documents were signed on the establishment of KAMAZ Asia Leasing, a joint venture between UzAuto Trailer and KAMAZ Leasing Company. It is expected that the joint venture will offer comprehensive one-stop shop solutions when purchasing KAMAZ vehicles on lease, including insurance, installation of telematics equipment, and more.

Based on information by Tatarstan Presidential Press Services and KAMAZ

The Expert Council of the Industrial Development Fund approved a loan for the Tatarstan-headquartered RIAT in the amount of RUB 300 million under the Labour Productivity programme. The company will purchase equipment, organise production processes under lean manufacturing principles and methods, and will manufacture up to 2,000 special vehicles a year in its renovated building. As a result, company’s labour productivity is expected to grow by 40% until 2024. The loan funds will be used to purchase blanking, machining, welding, assembly, and painting equipment for the production of KAMAZ vehicles with modifications for operation in various road and climatic conditions, multi-axle chassis for special equipment, dump and flat trucks (trailers), tank trucks, and vacuum loaders.

In parallel with equipping the production facilities, it is expected to introduce a set of technology solutions in accordance with lean manufacturing principles: Kanban systems, visualisation systems, and others. This would create a unified information space, with the aid of which all automated enterprise management systems and industrial equipment (IoT – Internet of Things) will be able to promptly exchange information, which would make it possible to evaluate the performance of equipment and personnel.

The total project budget is RUB 422.3 million.

Based on information by Industrial Development Fund press service

The Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov paid a business visit to the People’s Republic of China, Qingdao City (Shandong Province).

During the visit, a meeting was held with Director-General of Foreign Affairs Office in Qingdao Municipal Government, Mr. Mou Jundian. At the meeting, the Minister was accompanied by Trade and Economic Representative of Tatarstan in China Yevgeny Gorshkov.

In particular, the first issue for discussion was the prospects for cooperation between the Republic of Tatarstan and the Shandong Province in such sectors as agriculture, shipbuilding and helicopter manufacturing, oil production and oil refining, electric power, investment, and medicine.

The issue of implementing joint projects with China-based Weichai Power was also raised: in September 2018, KAMAZ and Weichai Power Co. Ltd. signed an agreement for the creation of a facility to manufacture industrial diesel and gas engines in Russia with a volume of more than 17 litres and a capacity of 520 to 2000 kW. To date, the project is in its development stage.

Shandong is a province in the East China region. Its administrative centre is the city of Jinan. The largest city and port of the province is Qingdao.

In the 1st half of 2019, the foreign trade turnover between Tatarstan and China amounted to US$ 238 million.

Today, as part of the celebrations of the Mechanical Engineer’s Day in Naberezhnye Chelny, the bust to the first Director General of KAMAZ, Lev Vasiliev, was officially opened at 2 Avtozavodskoy Prospekt of the city.

Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov addressed the guests with a welcoming speech noting the invaluable contribution of Lev Vasiliev to the development of the city:

“Vasiliev is not only the history of the plant. During his ruling, the city, from a settlement of 30,000 people, grew up to 300,000 people with schools, streets, hospitals...”

Lev Vasiliev is a public official and industrial figure, a Hero of Socialist Labour, and Director General of the KAMAZ Production Association from 1969 to 1981. On February 7, 2020 Leo Vasiliev will turn 95 years old; he is still full of life and energy and lives in Moscow.

On the first day of October, the 9th St. Petersburg International Gas Forum (SPIGF 2019) opened at the ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre in St. Petersburg.

The event annually becomes the leading platform for discussing current issues in the gas industry. The participants to the Forum are top managers of major oil and gas companies, representatives of country’s innovation centres and design institutions, experts, academics, heads of dedicated universities and R&D establishments.

In the Forum’s exhibition programme, Tatarstan is represented by leading republic’s enterprises of the sector, such as the Kazan Motor-Building Production Association (KMPO), the Aviagaz-Soyuz+, the RariTEK Holding, Kazancompressormash, and KAMAZ.

The central place in the KMPO display is the natural sample of the NK-38ST gas turbine engine, one of the advanced products developed by the company. The display also hosts a virtual reality table demonstrating a 3D compressor station project with a modular gas pumping unit. Visitors can also see the virtual cinema IC.IDO. Using IC.IDO technology, one can plunge into the virtual world of a gas turbine power plant, install and dismantle various units of a power plant drive.

Based on information by gas-forum.ru website and KMPO press service

Many good parting words were said today on the RariTEK Group site to the participants of the Blue Corridor - Gas into Engines 2019 gas motor rally. Representatives of the Gazprom Gas Motor Fuel and KAMAZ, top executives of the RariTEK Group, colleagues, relatives, and friends came to support the participants.

The participating vehicles include the KAMAZ 651156 truck tractor with a grain-carrying semitrailer, the LOTOS 105 bus of RariTEK production, and the Hyundai HD 78 van that run on liquefied natural gas (methane). The rally also involved the crews of the Gazprom Gas Motor Fuel and KAMAZ.

The rally will start on September 20. The event is organised by Gazprom and Germany’s Uniper SE. The race features cars, trucks and passenger vehicles powered by compressed and liquefied natural gas. The rally demonstrates the reliability of methane-driven vehicles and focuses on stress on long-distance and ultra-long-distance transportation opportunities for passengers and goods.

The length of the rally section in Russia is 2,760 kilometres. Its route will pass through the Rostovskaya, Voronezhskaya, Belgorodskaya, Moskovskaya, Novgorodskaya, and Leningradskaya oblasts. The race will finish on October 3 at the ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre in St. Petersburg.

Based on information by RariTEK Group

Today, Minister Karimov attended the opening of the 6th all-Russian summer vocational guidance forum titled “PROF Movement” to be held from August 19 to 23 at the Zvezdny Camp. The Forum was organised by KAMAZ with the support from the Tatarstan Government.

The PROF Movement Forum once again brought together students of colleges and universities throughout the country. More than 200 students of educational organisations came to Naberezhnye Chelny from Krasnodar, Volgograd, Kemerovo, and Saratov regions, Chuvashia and Tatarstan. The Forum was attended by Director General of KAMAZ Sergey Kogogin, directors of company’s units and divisions, as well as representatives from various ministries and agencies of Tatarstan. This year, the Forum is timed to coincide with the Year of Blue-Collar Jobs and the 50th anniversary of KAMAZ. The key topic of the event is “Product Quality through Process Quality”.

The goal of the PROF Movement is to tell young people about career opportunities in their respective regions. Participants will be able to visit the World-cafe, talk with KAMAZ top managers and representatives of ministries, listen to a lecture by Director of KAMAZ Quality Department Anton Saraykin, take part in business games, competitions, and much more.

Based on information by KAMAZ press service

Today in Naberezhnye Chelny, the KAMAZ Press and Frame Plant launched a new line for the production of aluminium fuel tanks, which is intended to replace the supplies of imported tanks from Austria. The ceremony was attended by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Director General of the Rostec Group Sergey Chemezov, Deputy Prime Minister Albert Karimov, and other officials.

Before the launch of the new line, Russia has no facilities for the production of aluminium fuel tanks that would meet the quality and capacity requirements of KAMAZ, so the company purchased these products abroad. In 2017, KAMAZ decided to set up its own facilities for the aluminium fuel tank production. In 2018, the Industry Development Fund (IDF) supported the company’s project by providing the manufacturer with a loan under the Component Products programme.

Within this project, KAMAZ began producing aluminium fuel tanks with a capacity of 200 to 800 litres. The new production’s output is 35,000 tanks a year. However, the line is universal allowing the production of both aluminium and steel fuel tanks.

Earlier, the IDF granted the company a preferential loan for the purchase of new equipment. The total project budget was RUB 544 million, of which RUB 230 million is an IDF loan.

An important project for KAMAZ and the region has become the 150th production project launched with the involvement of a IDF loan.