Kamaz

KamAZ Inc.
Native name
 КамАЗ
Public
Traded as MCX: KMAZ
Industry Automotive
Founded 1969
Headquarters Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatarstan, Russia
Key people
 Sergey A. Kogoghin, Director General
Products Trucks and buses
Revenue Increase US$ 3 billion
Owner Russian Technologies State Corporation(49.9 %)
Troika Dialog (27.3 %)
Daimler AG (11 %)
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (4 %)
Number of employees
 35,000
Website www.kamaz.ru/en/

KamAZ (Камский Автомобильный Завод – КАМАЗ / Kamskiy Avtomobilny Zavod – translated: Kama Automobile Plant) is a Russian truck manufacturer located in Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatarstan, Russian Federation. KAMAZ opened its doors in 1976. Today, heavy duty models are exported to many areas of the world including Eastern Europe, Latin America, China, the Middle East, Indonesia, Singapore, India and North Africa. The trucks have won the Dakar Rally a record thirteen times. KAMAZ is the largest truck producer in Russia and the CIS. The factory produces 43,000 trucks a year (2014).[1] Reinforced KAMAZ trucks are used by the Russian army.

History

KamAZ-53501
KamAZ-6560
USSR 1974 postage stamp featuring a KamAZ truck

In 1969, the Resolution of the Central Committee of the USSR Communist Party and the USSR Council of Ministers was approved which envisaged construction of a complex of heavy duty truck production plants. 70 potential sites to locate the facilities were investigated. Choice went in favor of Naberezhnye Chelny, then a small town on the Kama River. Its advantages were obvious. So far as its geographical situation was concerned, Naberezhnye Chelny was right in the center of the former Soviet Union. The navigable rivers – the Kama River and the Volga River – as well as proximity of the railway line, were central to meeting all the logistical needs of the construction site for materials, raw materials, equipment, components while, going forward, to meeting the need to ship ready made trucks to customers. The fact that the huge construction company “KamGESenergostroy” existed in the region allowed construction of plant buildings and apartment blocks for prospective KAMAZ employees to be completed.

Workers and engineers, representing more than 70 ethnicities, converged on Naberezhnye Chelny to fuse into a “melting pot” of the construction project personnel. Orders placed by KAMAZ to procure construction materials and equipment were filled by all the ministries and departments, a total of over 2000 enterprises. Over 100 thousand personnel were employed at the construction site itself. The would-be truck plant was being provided with the most state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment by the contemporary standards. More than 700 international firms were among equipment vendors for KAMAZ facilities, including such globally known corporations as Swindell-Dressler, Holcroft, CE-Cast, Ingersoll Rand, Ex-Cello (U.S.A.), Hueller-Hille, Liebherr (West Germany), Morando, Fata (Italy), Renault (France), Sandvik (Sweden), Kamatsu and Hitachi (Japan).

On December 13-th 1969, ground was broken and the first bucket of soil was excavated at the construction site of the Kama River Truck Plant which was rated for production of 150 thousand heavy duty trucks and 250 thousand engines a year. The Complex of Plants on the Kama River sprawled over a vast territory measuring 57 square km. Concurrent to construction of the truck plant, huge social challenges were tackled. Hundreds of thousands of people were provided by KAMAZ with comfortable housing, modern educational facilities, kindergartens and creches, hospitals and clinics, numerous cultural, sporting, recreational and leisure centers. KAMAZ was instrumental in transforming the Kama River Area into a powerful industrial and scientific research hub and developing the infrastructure for the suburban agricultural zone.

Every year the population of the city grew by another 30-40 thousand or so. Whereas before construction of KAMAZ got underway, 27 thousand residents had lived in Naberezhnye Chelny, the current population has now reached more than half a million.

Owners and management

The authorized capital of "KAMAZ" is 35.36 billion rubles. The shareholders of the plant as of June 2010 are:[2] 49.9 % of the shares owned by the state corporation "Russian Technologies State Corporation"; 27.3 % controlled by the company "Troika Dialog"; 11 % owned by Daimler (package of 10% was sold to "Daimler" Company "Troika Dialog" for $250 million in early December, 2008); 4 % owned by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

At the same time, "KAMAZ" has a lot of minority shareholders (more than 76,000 individuals).[3]

In early March, 2008 the Board of Directors of KAMAZ was elected, which included 15 people, including:[4] The mayor of the city of Naberezhnye Chelny (April 2010 - Prime Minister of Tatarstan) - Ildar Khalikov, head of the management Federal Agency for State Property Management (Rosimushchestvo) - Ivan V. Aksenov, and the Director-General of the "Russian Technologies State Corporation" Sergey Chemezov.

Group structure

The Public Company "KAMAZ" has more than 110 subsidiaries and affiliates, it owns shares in the authorized capital of more than 50 different companies and businesses. Together they form the "Group of KAMAZ".
The group includes:

The main production facilities of the plant are located in the industrial area of Naberezhnye Chelny. Nefaz buses are produced in Neftekamsk (Bashkortostan).

There are also foreign manufacturing facilities in the following locations: Afghanistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan (AO "KAMAZ-Engineering), Malaysia, North Korea <! - According to the official website ->Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Chile, Ethiopia.

Competition

Kamaz vehicles have won the truck category of the Dakar Rally 13 times as of 2015.[6] All 14 of the 2010 Dakar Rally stages in the truck category were won by Kamaz trucks.

Generations

No years of release Features Photo
1 1976-2000 (with changes issue remains army trucks) Diskless wheels. Low cabin roof. Corrugated sidewalls sleeping compartment. Lights on the front of the cab.
2 1995- Increased height of the cab roof. Disc wheels. Rectangular lights on the bumper. New bumper with sidewalls. Underride underbody.
3 2004- New surround bumper (double for tractors). New headlamps with headlamp swivel sections, which call on the sidewalls of the bumper. We haul tractors appeared high cab. Smooth walls of the sleeping compartment. Voluminous front fenders. Some of the trucks new plastic dashboard instead of metal
4 2010- Large-scale modernization. All new front of cabin, including new radiator grille. New front bumper. New headlight lens type in one case with swivel headlights. Plastic dashboard with electronic instrument cluster. Part of trucks equipped with Cummins engine manufacturing joint venture Cummins and KAMAZ in Naberezhnye Chelny.
5 2014- cabin from Mercedes-Benz Axor with some modifications
6 ? Being developed – completely new cab – jointly with South Korean engineering company DMEC. Prototype trucks already presented

Models

Russia's President Vladimir Putin speaks about the 2,000,000th truck produced by KamAZ around the world, 2012.

Trucks

3rd Generations of KAMAZ. KAMAZ 65117
Firefighting vehicle ATs-5,0-100 on KAMAZ-65224 chassis (4th Generation of KAMAZ trucks

From 1976 - 2015, KAMAZ has produced trucks as follows :

Military tank transporter KAMAZ 65225 with an SU-85 on parade rehearsal in Red Square

Prime mover

Engines KAMAZ Engines

KAMAZ Cummins

KAMAZ Mercedes

Other vehicles

Kamaz Mustang

The Kamaz Мустанг (Mustang) is a family of general military utility trucks with numerous variants.[7] The family is based on the 1st generation KamAZ family launched in the early 1980s. A three-person cab is standard across the Mustang range. It has a sleeping berth and tilts forward for engine access. This cab can be fitted with add-on armour kit.

The Mustang family is available in eight (8) models:[8]

Original three:

And the Kamaz-43501, -5450, -6450, and -5350 trucks with armoured cabs.:[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Новости. ОАО "КАМАЗ"". Kamaz.net. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
  2. ↑ Nepomnyashchii, Alex (2010-06-21). ""Troika" depart to partners". Vedomosti № 111 (2629) (in Russian). (subscription required (help)).
  3. ↑ Stolyarov, Gleb; Fedorinova, Yulia (2007-05-17). ""Kamaz" does not pay the Federal Property Management Agency". Vedomosti, № 88 (1862) (in Russian). (subscription required (help)).
  4. ↑ www.dp.ru (7 March 2008). ""KAMAZ" approved candidates to the Board". Business Petersburg (Online) / Moscow / (in Russian). ISSN 1606-1829.
  5. ↑ KAMAZ-Metallurgy / / ROSFINPROM.
  6. ↑ "Russian Kamaz Master occupies 2015 Dakar Rally's entire podium". Russian News Agency "TASS". 17 January 2015.
  7. ↑ http://kamaz.net/en/news/2003/12/22/
  8. ↑ http://kamaz.net/en/news/2003/12/22/
  9. ↑ http://kamaz.net/en/news/2003/12/22/
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