OREANDA-NEWS. June 23, 2008. On 18 June the KAMAZ automobile plant opened the assembling of KAMAZ T-215 farm wheeled tractors.

The delegation of KAMAZ partners from ARGO Tractors S.p.A. headed by the company’s president Valerio Morra participated in the opening of the assembling. On 19 June the Italian guests held negotiations with Director General Sergey Kogoghin and KAMAZ management and came to agreement about the details and time-frames of project realization in 2008. Tatarstan was presented by Prime Minister Rustam Minnikhanov, Minister of Agriculture Marat Akhmetov, the city was presented by Mayor Ildar Khalikov at the opening of tractor production.

KAMAZ takes another step for launching tractor production. For the present the assembly sets for assembly on the stocks are from Italy and France. There are test and run-in benches at the opened production.

KAMAZ workers engaged in the production received training in Italy. Several specialists from this country help KAMAZ employees master the most complicated electronic systems of tractors. At first there will be produced equipment with IVECO engines, in two years Cummins engines of 58 – 285 h.p. produced at the JV CUMMINS KAMA in Naberezhnye Chelny will be mounted.

The automobile plant is supposed to produce no less than 450 tractors till the end of the year. Then the enterprise will shift its base to its own premises located on the place of the company’s former subsidiary KAMAZ-montazh. Gradually production of components for tractors will be located in Naberezhnye Chelny and Russian plants. Only original, the most complicated and high-tech units (transmission, in particular) will be imported.

KAMAZ T-215 is a unique tractor and has no analogs in Russia. One such model can substitute for a tractor fleet of several types of vehicles. T-215 has got the highest performance level in its class and low fuel consumption. And it’s especially important under conditions when the considerable proportion of agricultural production value is the share of fuels and lubricants value. The tractor is very comfortable for a driver and has got an electronic-controlled transmission. Thanks to the climate system, it’s cool in summer and warm in winter in the tractor. Thus, the KAMAZ tractor will set new standards of mechanics’ working conditions and raise quality standards of farm equipment.