OREANDA-NEWS. May 11, 2012. Representatives of Sibir Industrial and Construction Concern, Novosibirsk, have arrived at KAMAZ to discuss the issues of the companies’ further cooperation, purchasing, operation and service of KAMAZ NGVs, as well as to share their positive experience of the advantageous use of gas-powered KAMAZ vehicles in Novosibirsk Oblast.

During the visit, the guests saw KAMAZ’s service center, the range of KAMAZ vehicles running on methane, an area for installation of an automatic centralized lubrication system by Lincoln, and a mobile auto service center (prefabricated shed). At the area of finished products, the guests from Novosibirsk got acquainted with a next-generation product developed by KAMAZ – KAMAZ-43118-30 which will soon become another commercial vehicle running on compressed natural gas.

Sibir Industrial and Construction Concern and RariTEK, a distributor of OJSC KAMAZ producing gas-powered equipment, have been cooperating since 2011 when the Siberians purchased ten KAMAZ trucks running on methane. Within a short period of time, the clients from Novosibirsk realized advantages of transition to new fuel technologies. They decided to switch from diesel to gas cars after they had been using combined gas-diesel cars for several years. It turned out that it is more profitable to use KAMAZ vehicles equipped with serial gas engines running on pure methane. The use of methane enables to significantly save on the cost of cargo transportation. KAMAZ gas engines require wear-and-tear repair three times as rarely as diesel engines, which is also very profitable.

Another competitive advantage of compressed natural gas is its permanent quality: methane cannot be diluted, like gasoline at small refueling stations sometimes, and it can’t be "summer" or "winter" like diesel fuel. Vehicles can be filled with methane at NGV refueling compressor stations – fuel is supplied to them through pipelines absolutely trouble-free.