KrAZ

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Kremenchutsky Avtomobilny Zavod
KrAZ or AvtoKrAZ
Type privately held company
Industry automobile manufacturing
Founded 1946
Headquarters Kremenchuk, Ukraine
Products trucks
Owner(s) Finance and Credit
Parent KrAZ Holding Company
Website www.autokraz.com.ua
Example of the KrAZ trucks

KrAZ (Ukrainian: Кременчуцький автомобільний завод, Kremenchuts'ky Avtomobil'ny Zavod, Kremenchuk Automobile Plant) (or AvtoKrAZ) is a factory that produces trucks and other special-purpose vehicles in Kremenchuk, Ukraine; particularly heavy-duty off-road models.[1] The factory was incorporated as a holding company combining several other factories nationwide and becoming the industrial wing of the finance-industrial group "Finance and Credit" that also holds the Bank Finance and Credit.

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[edit] History

Kraz was founded on 31 August 1945 when the People's Commissariat for Transportion Routes issued a warrant to build a mechanical bridge plant in Kremenchuk. The first brick was laid in the plant foundation in 1946 and during the next 8 years it produced about 600 bridges with the total length of about 27 km for use on the Dnipro, Moscow, Dniester, Volga and Daugava rivers etc. In 1956 the plant has manufactured combine harvesters and other farming machines. The Kremenchug combine plant has produced 11,000 agricultural machines in the first two years of its existence.

On April 17th, 1958 the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union decided to build a plant for heavy-duty vehicle production in Kremenchuk. Heavy-duty truck manufacture was transferred from the Yaroslav automobile plant or YaAZ. the first two KrAZ-222 dump trucks were assembled from imported units and components on 10 April 1959, and by 1961 the plant exported over 500 hundred vehicles in 26 countries of the world such as Argentina, Afghanistan, Bulgaria, China, India, Vietnam etc. KrAZ was awarded the Order of Lenin in January 1971 for completion of the five-year plan ahead of schedule and successful developments of new truck models. On January 15th, 1976 the plant became "AvtoKrAZ".

External images
KrAZ-5233 "Spetsnaz"
Image of the vehicle

By 1986 the company's yearly production output totalled 30655 vehicles. The Kremenchug automobile plant was registered as an Open Joint Stock Company in 1996. The holding company "AvtoKrAZ" was registered in 1999. 2002 witnessed the start of privatization with the "AvtoKrAZ" block of stock being purchased by a joint Ukrainian-German enterprise "Mega-Motors". In 2003 AvtoKrAZ opened vehicle assembly plants in Russia and Vietnam. In 2004 "AvtoKrAZ' was awarded an order for 2200 KrAZ vehicles to be delivered to Iraq. AvtoKrAZ received an ISO 9001:2000 for quality control.

In January 2006 the 800,000th truck was assembled at the KrAZ main assembly plant. In October of the same year HC "AvtoKrAZ" won the first prize among 100 Ukrainian companies with the best rate of development according to the net profit growth pursuant to the results of rating "Top 100 Most dynamic companies"

On August 23, 2011 the KrAZ-5233 "Spetsnaz" has entered into service with Ukrainian army.[2]

[edit] Products

[edit] Civil Vehicles

  • KrAZ-255
  • KrAZ-5133B2 - 4x2 - 330 hp (246 kW)
  • KrAZ-6510 - 4x4 or 6x4 - 240 hp (179 kW) engine
  • KrAZ-65055 - 6x6 - 330 hp (246 kW) engine
  • KrAZ-65032 - all-wheel drive 6x6 dump trucks - 330 hp (246 kW)
  • KrAZ-6130С4 - all-wheel drive 6x6 dump trucks - 330 hp (246 kW)
  • KrAZ-7133С4 - 4-axle (8x4) dump trucks
  • KrAZ-65053 - 330 hp (246 kW)
  • KrAZ-65101 - 240 hp (179 kW)

[edit] Chassis

  • KrAZ-5133H2 - 4x2 - 330 hp (246 kW)
  • KrAZ-7133H4 - 8x4
  • KrAZ-7140H6 - 8x6 - 400 hp (298 kW)
  • KrAZ-63221 - 6x6
  • KrAZ-65053 - 330 hp (246 kW)
  • KrAZ-65101 - 240 hp (179 kW)

[edit] Semi-tractors

  • KrAZ-5444 - 2-axle - 330 hp (246 kW)
  • KrAZ-6140TE - 3-axle - 400 hp (298 kW)
  • KrAZ-6443 - 3-axle
  • KrAZ-6446 - 3-axle
  • KrAZ-64431 - 3-axle

[edit] Military Vehicles

  • KrAZ-5233BE 4x4 - 330 hp (246 kW)
  • KrAZ-6322 6x6 - 330 hp (246 kW)
  • KrAZ-6135B6 6x6 - 350 hp (261 kW)

[edit] Special-purpose Vehicles

  • KrAZ-6133M6 - timber truck
  • KrAZ-64372 - timber truck
  • KrAZ-6233R4 - concrete mixer truck
  • KrAZ-6333R4 - concrete mixer truck
  • KrAZ-7133R4 - concrete mixer truck
  • KrAZ-65055DM - dump truck/snow plow (municipal)

[edit] Gallery

  • KrAZ-214 with a PMP Pontoon bridge

  • KrAZ-214 with a PMP Pontoon bridge

  • KrAZ-255 with a TMM folding bridge

  • KrAZ-255 with a TMM folding bridge

  • KrAZ-255B showing its undercarriage

  • The follow on to the KrAZ-255, the KrAZ-260. Here ia a former NVA of DDR.

  • KrAZ-258-Sattelzug

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Холдинговая компания АвтоКрАЗ. Производство, продажа и поставка тяжелых грузовых автомобилей и автомобилей специального назначения, а также запчастей к ним. Сервис, станции техобслуживания". Autokraz.com.ua. http://www.autokraz.com.ua. Retrieved 2009-12-25. 
  2. ^ The KrAZ-5233 Spetsnaz enters into service with the Ukrainian army

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