OREANDA-NEWS. April 10, 2009. The guests visited the enterprises of the Kama auto giant, Cummins Kama Joint Venture and could estimate their potential and achieved success at their true worth.

The American delegation was headed by dignified men – Theodore Matthew Solso, Chairman of Cummins Board of Directors, and Tom Linebarger, President of Cummins, which testifies to the effect that two parties attached great importance to the visit. KAMAZ was represented by Sergey Kogoghin – Director General of KAMAZ Inc., Yuri Klochkov – First Deputy Director General of KAMAZ Inc., Irek Gumerov – Director of Development, directors of the plants of KAMAZ Group.

The guests and hosts saw cab assembly shops and the mother gathering conveyor of Automobile Plant on electric cars which Sergey Kogoghin and Ildus Bayanov, Director of the plant, drove themselves.

Then the delegation visited OAO KAMAZ-Diesel where production of ZAO Cummins Kama is located. The guests saw a cylinder blocks processing line, a parts localization shop and a Cummins engines assembly conveyor. The management of Cummins Incorporated was interested in the potential of the joint venture and the future of the project. Dmitry Yakubovsky, Director General of JV, answered these and other questions in detail.

In KAMAZ R&D Center the American partners of KAMAZ saw models of new KAMAZ equipment with interest.

The visit was concluded with negotiations where Cummins Inc. and KAMAZ Inc. discussed the prospects of their future cooperation.

Theodore Matthew Solso, Chairman of Board of Directors of Cummins Incorporated:

– In spite of the economic recession, KAMAZ and Cummins will continue making large investments, and I could see it today. Especially I was surprised by enthusiasm of the workers and employees of the enterprise who face the future with optimism.

Sergey Kogoghin, Director General of KAMAZ Inc.:

– This is a very important meeting for our company. The main thing is that JV will work. In fact, 95% of this project is fulfilled. KAMAZ sees it as a project with the future: an absolutely new engine conforming to all modern ecological regulations. A customer has already got used to this brand in Russia and abroad. I consider that we made the right choice many years ago.