OREANDA-NEWS. March 15, 2010. 2009 was the 34th year from the beginning of KAMAZ trucks batch production and the 40th one from the establishment of the enterprise.

In 2009 KAMAZ produced 23.3 thousand vehicle sets, including about 22.5 thousand finished vehicles and chassis in Naberezhnye Chelny. KAMAZ-Diesel made almost 28.5 thousand engines and power units. This is almost the same performance KAMAZ showed in 2002-2003 when going out of the previous crisis.

STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP. KAMAZ made the first steps for its more intensive strategic partnership with Daimler. The German managers and specialists highly appreciated KAMAZ’s activities for Production System development and came to the conclusion that KAMAZ continued developing truck production meeting the European quality standards. Two joint ventures for production and sales – Fuso KAMAZ Trucks Rus and Mercedes-Benz Trucks Vostok – were established.

INTEGRATION. KAMAZ Inc. and Federal Mogul Corporation (USA) launched the production of their joint venture OOO Federal Mogul Naberezhnye Chelny. KAMAZ Inc. and Case New Holland (FIAT Group) signed an agreement on development of production of tractors and other agricultural equipment in Naberezhnye Chelny. CUMMINS KAMA Russian-American Joint Venture launched its engine production. KAMAZ started producing Euro-3, -4, -5 Cummins engines. OOO KNORR-BREMSE KAMA JV producing brake systems for KAMAZ vehicles was acknowledged the most successful one among joint ventures established earlier.

FOREIGN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY. KAMAZ Inc. was named the best exporter of the Russian Federation in the sector “Mechanical Engineering” for the tenth time in succession. OAO NEFAZ, KAMAZ’s subsidiary, became the best Russian exporter to the CIS countries. Turkmenistan became one of the largest and stable importers of KAMAZ vehicles: in 2009 contracts for delivery of over 1400 vehicles to this country were concluded. The first heavy contract for delivery of 400 KAMAZ vehicles to Yemen was realized. KAMAZ Inc. and India’s Vectra Group signed an agreement on establishment of a joint venture for production of KAMAZ trucks for the Indian market. The expected capacity of the enterprise is 5 thousand trucks a year.

DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMPANY AND ITS PRODUCTS. For the first time KAMAZ presented models of its serial vehicles with restyled cabs at two largest Russian exhibitions. The fisrt such vehicles are made. During 2010 the whole model line of trucks will gradually be equipped with restyled cabs. KAMAZ-65222 dump truck was acknowledged the best product of Tatarstan in 2009 in the nomination “Production for Industry and Engineering”. The same vehicle of KAMAZ became the finalist of the competition “Russia’s 100 Best Products” for achievements in securing of quality of the Russian production. KAMAZ Inc. adopted Program of Strategic Development for 2010-2013.

DEVELOPMENT OF SALES AND SERVICE. A new trade and service center of KAMAZ was opened in Kemerovo. In November KAMAZ Inc. declared a clearance sale of vehicles produced before the crisis in 2008, but unrealized in storehouses of dealers and KAMAZ Trade and Finance Company and offered them to customers at a discount of 35%. The main part of vehicles of “the pre-crisis stock” was realized.

WORK WITH STATE STRUCTURES. The RF Governement decreed the list of automobile equipment produced on the territory of the RF to be purchased by the RF federal executive bodies which includes all KAMAZ products. The company received means from the Russian banks within the bounds of the program of support of the Russian automobile industry.

IMAGE AND AUTHORITY. KAMAZ received a national award “The Company of the Year – 2009” instituted by RBC Group of Companies. The company won in the nomination “Automobile Industry”. Sergey Kogoghin, Director General of KAMAZ Inc. was received the award of the RF Government in the sphere of science and engineering and was reckoned among the top ten most professional top managers in Russia, according to the rating of Kommersant Publishing House and the Russian Managers Association. Sergey Kogoghin became the best among top managers of non-Moscow companies in this contest. Also he was named “The Manager of the Year” in Tatarstan and “The Person of the Year” by version of Tatarstan’s Internet-newspaper “BUSINESS Online” and the city’s newspaper “Vecherniye Chelny”.

PERSONNEL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT. Students of “KAMAZ-KSTU” Mechanical Engineering Educational Cluster acquired working professions after the first year of studying. SODEXO French Company started servicing public catering establishments of KAMAZ.

SPORT. The KAMAZ-master team won at two large off-road rally raids in 2009 – Dakar-2009 in South America and Silk Way-2009 on the route “Kazan – Ashgabat”. Firdaus Kabirov’s crew took first places in both cases.