OREANDA-NEWS. The 5000th bus chassis was assembled in the automobile plant of KAMAZ Inc. The workers of the plant celebrated this event together.

KAMAZ started launching bus chassis in 1999. That year KAMAZinstrumentspetsmash produced 126 units. And dedicated production of chassis started in February 2001.

In 2006 there were produced 1319 bus chassis. The production program is planned for five years: in 2011-2012 KAMAZ Inc. plans to produce 1800-1900 chassis a year.

Chassis are transported to Neftekamsk (Bashkortostan) where the subsidiary of KAMAZ Inc. - NEFAZ Inc. - assembles buses of the same name: city, suburban, transit, sightseeing and “north” models. They are used in most of Russian regions, in Kazakhstan, Ukraine and other countries.

The project on mass production of minibuses on KAMAZ-4308 medium payload chassis is currently being worked out.