BelAZ, Belarusian autoworks (BY: БелАЗ, Беларускі аўтамабільны завод)
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JSC |
| Industry |
Automotive |
| Founded |
1948 |
| Headquarters |
Zhodzina, Belarus |
| Area served |
Worldwide |
| Key people |
Piotr Parkhomchyk |
| Products |
Dump trucks, Semi-trailer trucks |
| Net income |
 US$ 165 million (2011) |
| Website |
belaz.by |
Mining dump truck Belaz-7557
Mining dump truck Belaz-7547
Front-end loader Belaz-7822
BelAZ (Belarusian: Беларускі аўтамабільны завод or БелАЗ, Romanized: Belaruski autamabilny zawod or BelAZ) is a Belarusian manufacturer of haulage and earthmoving equipment based in Zhodzina. The factory opened its door in 1948 and has produced over 120,000 vehicles for use in the Soviet Union.
BELAZ is a site for one of the largest Commonwealth of Independent States investment project. The factory finalized two of the three scheduled phases of the technical re-equipment and upgrades. The Quality Management System applied in research and development, fabrication, erection and after-sale service of the equipment complies with international ISO 9000 standards.
[edit] History
1971
USSR postage stamp depicting BelAZ 540
- In 1948, a peat extraction machinery plant was constructed by the railroad station Žodzina.
- In 1951 the plant was expanded into the plant of road construction and land improvement machinery and renamed into "Dormash" (Дормаш), an abbreviation for "дорожное машиностроение", "road construction machinery building".
- In 1958 it was renamed into BelAZ. Initially it produced MAZ trucks.
- In 1961 the first 27-tonne BelAZ pit and quarry dump truck was manufactured.
- In 1990 a 280-tonne truck was manufactured.
- In 2001 the director of BelAZ plant, Pavel Maryev, was awarded the order Hero of Belarus.
- In 2005 plans were revealed for production of BelAZ-75600 with 320 tonne (352,600 kg, or 352.6 tons) capacity, ordered by Kuzbass mining.
- In fall of 2006 the first delivery of BelAz-75600 [1]
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