OREANDA-NEWS. KAMAZ’s representatives have participated in a meeting of Rustam Minnikhanov, Tatarstan’s President, and top managers of Spain’s Ros Roca Group/INDOX, which took place at the House of Tatarstan Government.

The participants of the meeting discussed issues of mutually advantageous cooperation in the sphere of recycling and collecting solid domestic waste, the use of gas fuel for public transport, trucks, and agricultural vehicles.

During the meeting, Ros Roca Group presented its projects in the sphere of waste collection and the use of liquefied natural gas for filling vehicles. Tatarstan’s President noted that Tatarstan and Gazprom had developed a large-scale project to start using gas as motor fuel for transport, and the Spanish company’s equipment and technologies would help to do it more efficiently. Since KAMAZ is a member of the working group of this project, the meeting was attended by Nikolay Pronin, Deputy General Director of OJSC KAMAZ for Special Equipment, and Rafael Batyrshin, Director of RariTEK, KAMAZ’s official distributor producing gas-powered equipment.

Supposedly, KAMAZ heavy trucks and CNH agricultural vehicles produced at KAMAZ’s premises will be the first vehicles to start using natural gas as motor fuel.