OREANDA-NEWS. August 09, 2007. Total contract value will compose more than 11 bln. Rubles. The delivery of equipment will be ended in October 2007, reported the press-centre of KTZ.

The cooperation between “Onezhsky tractor plant” (OTZ) and Perm company began in 2005. “Lespromindustria” is the dealer of OTZ and in its turn sells Karelian machines to forest operators of Povolzhye and Urals, Perm region, Udmurtia, Tatarstan.

“In this regions our native equipment is trying to stand very serious competition with Chinese machines, which often cheapper than Russian ones, - says the Chief of sales department of Karelian enterprise Aleksandr Dreyzis. - Already several years ago forestry operators gave preference to appeared Chinese equipment but now the situation has changed because Karelian tractors proved their advantage”.

The growth of interest to tractors from OTZ Aleksandr Dreyzis connects with fact that local machines are better adapted for work in our woods.