Golden Chariot Award to KAMAZ
The readers of The Reis Magazine named KAMAZ the leader in the sphere of production of commercial vehicles.
The Golden Chariot National Public Award of Russia’s Transport Industry is given to the managers and staffs representing a domestic transport industry, a sphere of freight services, science and education in the transport sphere. The organizational committee of The Golden Chariot National Public Award of Russia’s Transport Industry and the editorial staff of The Reis Magazine by tradition offered readers to name the leader in nominations “The Leader in the Sphere of Production of Commercial Vehicles” and “The Leader in the Sphere of Production of Components for Commercial Machinery”. Among 18 contenders, including such companies as MAN, Mercedes, Iveco and other well-known brands, KAMAZ gained a convincing victory.
The best transport companies of Russia will be awarded in the Kremlin, Moscow, on 8 September, within the bounds of the First ExpoCityTrans Eurasia Congress and International Exhibition.
Thursday, 02 September 2010
First Big Delivery of New Holland Equipment Made in Russia
CNH and KAMAZ deliver the first fleet of combine harvesters manufactured at the recently formed industrial joint venture’s Naberezhnye Chelny plant in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.
New Holland Agriculture distributor Zapsibhlebproduct delivered this week the first fleet of 20 New Holland Agriculture CSX7080 combine harvesters to leave the assembly line at the Naberezhnye Chelny plant, manufacturing base of the industrial joint venture between CNH Global NV and OJSC KAMAZ. The machines were purchased by two large farms in the Krasnoyarsk territory.
ZAO Nazarovskoje, one of the leading farms in the Russian Federation, took delivery of 15 CSX7080 combine harvesters. With 65,000 hectares, this farm located in Stepnoj, Nazarovskij region, devotes half of its arable land to crops such as maize and rape and the rest to animal husbandry, with 50,000 pigs and 18,000 cattle. Isaev Valerij Andreevich, owner and General Director of ZAO Nazarovskoje commented: “I am very excited about the new equipment and I can’t wait to see the machines at work in our fields. We bought our first New Holland machine – a T9060 tractor – last year and have been so delighted with it and with the service support from Zapsibhlebproduct, that we have decided to stay with the brand for the purchase of our new fleet of combines.”
The remaining five CSX7080 combines were delivered to ZAO Solgonskoje, in Solgon, Uzurskij region, which already runs a fleet of five New Holland tractors and a FR9060 forage harvester. This 29,000-hectare farm focuses mainly on growing cereals, and dedicates a quarter of its arable land to animal husbandry, with 10,000 heads of cattle.
The CSX7080 is the ideal choice for mixed farms such as ZAO Nazarovskoje and ZAO Solgonskoje that need a high capacity combine harvester equipped with advanced technology in an affordable package. With their new combines they can count on the best and most effective harvesting solution in all crops, conditions and terrains. The CSX7080 is equipped with New Holland’s four-drum technology threshing drum with Opti-Thresh™ concave, beater, Multi-Thresh™ Rotary Separator, and Straw Flow™ beater. This highly versatile system guarantees high throughput with no compromise in kernel and straw quality. The CSX7080 also features the best combine cab in this segment, a component built around the operator's need to be at the very heart of the combine’s operation, with full control for top performance. With a 300 hp fuel-efficient FPT Cursor 9 Common Rail Tier III compliant engine, the CSX7080 is ideally suited to tough harvest conditions, harvesting up to 600-1000 hectares per season depending on the average yields.
Roberto Valfré, General Manager of the CNH-KAMAZ Commercial joint venture, stated: “Russian farming is going through a difficult time. The country is experiencing the worst drought in nearly 40 years and, on the financial front, credit remains difficult to obtain. In spite of this, farmers are investing in equipment to achieve the higher levels of efficiency required in today’s economic climate and place their businesses in the best position to succeed – and they are choosing New Holland for the quality of the equipment and the support they receive from us. This growing interest in our equipment was the driver for localizing production in Russia, so that we could be closer to our customers. Today, with the first deliveries taking place, our decision has become a reality and from now on our Russian customers will be able to purchase locally made and supported New Holland equipment.”
REFERENCE:
CNH (Case New Holland)
CNH Global N.V. is a world leader in the agricultural and construction equipment businesses. Supported by more than 11,600 dealers in 170 countries, CNH brings together the knowledge and heritage of its Case and New Holland brand families with the strength and resources of its worldwide commercial, industrial, product support and finance organizations. CNH Global N.V., whose stock is listed at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:CNH), is a majority-owned subsidiary of Fiat S.p.A. (FIA.MI). More information about CNH and its Case and New Holland products can be found online at www.cnh.com.
CNH in Russia - CNH operations in Russia date back to 1907, the year in which the first Case tractor was shipped to the country. Since then, the company has continued to strengthen its presence, with the opening of the first Moscow-based offices in 1998, as well as the development of a widespread distribution network. At the beginning of 2009, CNH opened a new spare parts depot centre near Moscow. CNH has historically been, and continues to be a leader in the combine and large tractor segment in Russia; in recent years, it has also quickly penetrated other agricultural and construction equipment segments.
OJSC KAMAZ is the largest Russian manufacturer of heavy-duty trucks. It takes the 11th place in truck production (of 14 t GVW) and the 8th place in diesel engines production in the world. KAMAZ Group consists of 96 enterprises, 13 of which are the main associated companies. The staff is about 59 000 employees. KAMAZ sales and service network covers all regions of Russia and the CIS, and also traditional outlets. There are 127 dealers and more than 100 firm service car centers. Trucks of GVW from 14 up to 40 tonnes, diesel and gas engines are the major products of OJSC KAMAZ. The trucks are used in the CIS, Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America (more than 80 countries).
ZAPSIBHLEBPRODUCT is a distributor of New Holland Agriculture equipment in the Russian Federation. Founded in 2007, Zapsibhlebproduct has eight outlets in North West Russia and runs a fleet of 18 service vehicles to support its customers.
Thursday, 02 September 2010
KAMAZ Increases Wages
Today KAMAZ employees’ minimal wage rate has been increased by 5 percent.
The order to increase minimal wage rates was signed by Sergey Kogoghin, Director General of OJSC KAMAZ, and Gumer Nuretdinov, Chairman of the company’s Trade Union Committee.
The order also approved a new “Single Tariff System of Payment of OJSC KAMAZ’s Workers’ Labour”. The company’s managers set themselves a task to increase wages and grant social guarantees to KAMAZ workers.
Wednesday, 01 September 2010
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