OREANDA-NEWS. August 29, 2012. OJSC Belarusian Automobile Plant (BelAZ) has announced an open tender to choose a supplier of equipment and technologies for producing castings and casting forms worth 2.7 million euros.

The closing date for bids and applications is September 7, 2012.

The deal will be financed with the company’s own funds.

The castings equipment shall be supplied anytime from September 15, 2012 till September 15, 2013.

The Belarusian Automobile Plant (BelAZ) was set up in 1958. It is one of the world’s largest producers of automobiles for open cast mines and building significant hydroengineering objects.

The company assembles over 200 models of mine trucks with the carrying capacity ranging from 30 to 200 tons, special machines (front loaders, wheel bulldozers, wheel vehicles for metallurgic companies, aircraft haulers, irrigative machinery, automobile dump semitrailers, and consumer goods).

The annual output equals 800-900 items. BelAZ produces heavy-duty trucks for open-cast mining in South-East Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe.