OREANDA-NEWS. "GAZ Group" has signed with the Kazakh company "SemAZ" a number of memorandums of industrial assembly line of commercial vehicles in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

As the press-service of "GAZ Group" informed, test delivery of vehicle sets began in September of this year from the frame buses "Gazel Next", on-board vehicles "Gazelle Business" and vehicles LiAZ of Likinsky plant. Since the next year, based on customer requirements, "SemAZ" will produce the mass vehicles based on the entire model line "Gazelle Next", "Gazon Next" and "Business Gazelles", heavy vehicles "Ural Next", buses of all classes (PAZ, LIAZ , KAVZ and gas), including vehicles on compressed natural gas.

This project – is the continuation of cooperation of "GAZ Group" with "SemAZ", launched in 2013. As previously reported by "AUTOSTAT", it was started the car production of "Ural-4320" in Kazakhstan. The production of this model will continue in the "SemAZ” facilities in parallel with the production of" the Next Ural "vehicles, which will begin in Kazakhstan in 2017.

"Production of" GAZ Group" is traditionally wide represented in the CIS, and Kazakhstan is one of the priority markets for us in the former Soviet Union. Today, the share of GAZ in the market in Kazakhstan is 65%. The assembly organization will increase our presence in Kazakhstan, as well as expand the range of vehicles that are offered to customers in the country, through the production of new models of family Next in the country », - said the president of" GAZ Group", Vadim Sorokin.