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VEHICLES TESTED WITH TIME AND ROADS In focus – Western Africa The first demonstration area for heavy trucks testing in Ukraine AvtoKrAZ levels at Dakar! 2007 digest N3 Z Z A A r r K K o o t t v Motor Show v KrAZ-2007 A www.autokraz.com.ua A t n e News News 4 t n o New KrAZ vehicles – for Polish c Exhibitions builders! 5 Production KrAZ vehicles model range of 2007 6-7 Markets In focus – Western Africa 8-9 Events Motor show “KrAZ-2007” 10 Sport “AvtoKrAZ” levels at “Dakar” 11 The first demonstration area for heavy trucks testing in Ukraine. A photo-report from the Test-drive demonstration area 12 -15 History Pages KrAZ-255B: 40 years in service 16-17 FLN – the Iranian partner of HC AvtoKrAZ. Guarantee Partners of success! 18 Enterprises- members of Holding Company Uzhgorodskiy Turbogas Plant 19 Digest of “AvtoKrAZ” newspaper “AvtoKrAZ” newspaper is owned by “AvtoKrAZ” Holding Company. Copyright by press service of “AvtoKrAZ” HC and marketing department of JSC “FTF KrAZ”. Project director: Mrs. Natalia Orel ([email protected]) Designed and published by PrintLux (www.printlux.com.ua) The digest is published in English, Spanish and French. Total edition 2000 copies. Reference to the digest is obligatory at its material republish. FTF KrAZ’s objective is leadership in sales markets automobile machinery based on KrAZ-6322 to the post-war Iraq. The military men of Yemen, Angola, India and other countries have given preference to this truck. At one of the biggest defense exhibitions – “IDEX-2007” which took place in Abu Dhabi in February 2007, AvtoKrAZ together with his partner – the “Streit Armored Group” Company has presented a multi-purpose armored KrAZ-6322 platform truck “Raptor” that received favourable reviews of experts. High estimate of Ukrainian trucks resulted in signing of a few contracts for KrAZ trucks delivery to the countries of Africa and the Middle East. Sales growth was stimulated by a considerable extension of model range and profound vehicles modernization that JSC Foreign Trade Firm KrAZ, being an export subdivision of improved consumer qualities, as well as fundamental reor- Holding Company “AvtoKrAZ”, is a kind of “engine” of the ganization of work and concentration on the customer in company and defines development strategy of the enter- order to satisfy his needs at most that is to supply him with prise, produced vehicles design in conditions of rapidly spare parts and service package: warranty and after-sales changing global automobile market. service. Today sales efforts of Foreign Trade Firm KrAZ are directed Currently the company is working actively at developing of to 16 priority markets in the countries of the Middle East, KrAZ trucks with RH steering, enlarging the range of options Asia, Africa and Europe. Our goal is to obtain a total share offered to the customer. of 1% in the markets of these countries with 0.25% annual We have adapted the engines with the ecological standard growth and we are resolutely approaching it. Euro-3 manufactured by the Yaroslavl Motor Plant, KAMAZ Properly elaborated sales politics, carrying out of active pro- and Cummins for KrAZ vehicles sets and we offer such trucks motion and exhibition, extension of dealer network, as well to the customer. Recently we have considerably enlarged as company maintenance centers network provided FTF standard size range of tipping platforms offered the con- KrAZ with possibility to extend the geography of sales. In sumer due to completing trucks with 14-, 16-, 18- and 20- 2006 traditional markets were enlarged owing to Bulgaria, cube bodies. Liberia, UAE, Ghana, Saudi Arabia. In 2007 Poland, KrAZ vehicle served as a basis for new types of special equip- Macedonia, Afghanistan, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria and ment, namely, the KrAZ truck with multi-lift equipment, the other countries were newly “reopened”. truck for patching repair, the truck-mounted concrete pump, KrAZ vehicles sales growth in foreign markets is determined and special trucks for the Ministry of Emergency Situations by favourable terms of payment for foreign customers, such and shot lighters. For the first time during the “KrAZ” histo- as leasing, factoring, forfeiting etc. ry the production of the fire-fighting truck and the truck Among successful projects carried out by Foreign Trade Firm crane on two-axle chassis was mastered. The truck cabin KrAZ this year is the establishment of joint venture in Poland was considerably modernized: a new steering wheel was together with Polish company and signing the contract for applied, air suspension seat was equipped with safety delivery of 50 KrAZ vehicles by the end of the year. JV KrAZ belts, due to modern sound-insulating materials the level Motors Algeria found its further development in Algeria; of internal noise was greatly decreased, vibroloading at the signing the call-off contract for delivery of 100 KrAZ vehicles driver’s working place was reduced, the brake system was per year is confirmation of this development. We have con- modernized etc. cluded a contract for delivery of a large lot to Equatorial We offer the consumer KrAZ vehicles equipped with engines Guinea and successfully won a number of tenders for of such manufacturers as Cummins, Deutz, as well as of delivery of KrAZ vehicles to Egypt, Afghanistan, Angola and Eaton and Alisson gear boxes, fifth wheels of the “JOST” or other countries. “George Fisher” type, Micheline tyres etc. Our future trend is A short-term goal of FTF KrAZ is to launch assembling in Iran to work out KrAZ medium-duty trucks, to diversify special and India and open joint ventures in Ghana, Sudan, Yemen. equipment. Today among KrAZ vehicles the most merchantable in the The company is constantly engaged in information gathering foreign markets are fifth-wheel tractors (47% of the total about running performance of the supplied KrAZ trucks in delivery amount), dump trucks (25%) and chassis (26%). order to make engineering development. The most popular in the far-abroad markets are KrAZ-65055 Holding Company “AvtoKrAZ” and its export subdivision and KrAZ-65032 dump trucks, KrAZ-6443 fifth-wheel tractor. JSC FTF KrAZ offer cooperation! KrAZ-6322 military cross-country truck and its modifications is the leader of sales. High competitiveness of this model and the company itself was proved by successful fulfillment of the contract (the largest in the automobile plant’s history and the third-large in the history of a military-technical col- Prime Deputy laboration of Ukraine with foreign countries valued at more General Director than 110 USD mln.) for delivery of more than 2000 units of FTF KrAZ, JSC Yuriy Oblog 4 digest N3 2007 A v t o K r A Z News The Egyptian military A new design on KrAZ men have completed chassis – a truck-mounted their training in KrAZ concrete pump maintenance Last year Holding Company “AvtoKrAZ” has concluded a contract for delivery of 29 trucks for the Ministry of Defence of the Egypt Arabian Republic (EAR). This cooperation was completed by the cus- tomer representatives’ training in operation, maintenance and operating repair of the KrAZ-6322 platform truck. The Egyptian mili- tary men have received theoretical knowl- edge which they have already applied in practice in the second half of their training. The training completed, the representatives of the Ministry of Defence of Egypt were awarded diplomas To satisfy numerous requests of construction organi- certifying the acquired qualification level. zations, Holding Company “AvtoKrAZ” has brought out to the market of building technology a truck-mounted KrAZ cross-country trucks concrete pump JXZ 37-4.16HP (“JUNJIN Heavy Indu- stry”, Korea) on KrAZ-65053 chassis with 6x4 wheel have made their way arrangement. towards Italy A new design enables to discharge concrete mix to the height of 37 m with high accuracy, it saves time, pro- Italian company “Vehicle Engineering” has bought a vides conveniences and additional opportunities when lot of all-wheel drive KrAZ-632 chassis. The president operated on the construction site. The concrete pump of the company, Mr. Marco Tockachelly, has shown truck output is 20-158 cubic meter per hour. Concrete his willingness to accept the vehicles on the spot and intake capacity is 600 l. test them personally in off-roads conditions and in A powerful multi-stage rotary water pump has output the soft ground. capacity of 120 l/m and operating pressure of 20 bar. Having completed a test-drive Mr. Tockachelly admi- The pump is equipped with automatic control system red high cross-country ability of all-purpose vehicles, using radio remote control. their excellent dynamic behaviour and good maneu- verability and expressed his interest in developing cooperation. Field communication system – based on KrAZ-5233BE “AvtoKrAZ” jointly with the “Telecard-Device” Com- pany (Odessa) created field communication system based on the two-axle all-wheel drive KrAZ-5233BE truck with 4x4 wheel arrangement. The truck is equipped with 330-h.p. engine Euro-2, 1350x550-533 tyres and provided with centralized tyre inflation system controlled directly from the cabin. Truck full mass with communication equipment room complex is 14.2 tons. Truck maximum speed is 80 km/h. Communication equipment complex (the so called shelter) is mounted on the shortened platform. This complex takes place of 7-8 earlier applied com- munication equipment rooms. It is noteworthy that similar products are produced only in 5 countries of the world. This complex has a great export potential since without it, it is impossible to control army in modern conditions. A v t o K r A Z 2007 digest N3 5 Exhibitions New KrAZ vehicles – for Polish builders! Holding Company “AvtoKrAZ” jointly with the company I tested many trucks, but if I were to choose which AUTOKRAZ POLSKA – the exclusive representative truck I would prefer for work, I would answer without in the territory of Poland took part in the International hesitation: “Surely, KrAZ!” Once at the highway con- Exhibtion of Road Construction “Autostrada-Polska’ 2007” struction we had an accident.