OREANDA-NEWS. April 9, 2008. The enterprises of KAMAZ Group finished the first quarter of the year having overfulfilled the basic prognoses of the business-plan and considerably exceeded the analogous figures of 2007.

In total for 3 months there were shipped marketable products for RUB 22 billion 016 million (+15.2% in comparable prices) including:
– 13169 trucks (+19.0%);
– 16455 engines and power units (+23.5%);
– spare parts for RUB 2 billion 477 million (–0.5%);
– diversification products for RUB 2 billion 439 million (+10.5%).

In addition, there were rendered services for RUB 1 billion 210 million.

In March KAMAZ exceeded the production volumes of February by half a billion roubles. The automobile plant practically caught up with the backlog of the production timetable of vehicles and its main components which took place in the middle of the month. In the third ten-day period of March all productions and assembly conveyors of the enterprise came closely to the rhythm planned for the summer months.

There were realized 9971 trucks via the dealer network and direct deliveries on the home market (+17.2% to January-March 2007). The foreign customers received 3198 vehicles (+25.1%). There were modernized 425 KAMAZ vehicles. There were produced 840 assembly sets for foreign assembly enterprises.

For three months 1102 units of the basic production – trucks, buses and trailer equipment – were leased or delivered with payment by installments. This is by 31.8% more than for the same period of 2007. KAMAZ Group leased 257 NEFAZ buses on the basis of the special KAMAZ chassis (+9.8%).

The largest KAMAZ subsidiaries of a united technological cycle outside Tatarstan solidly improved production and realization volumes as compared to 2007:
– “Avtopritsep-KAMAZ” Inc. (Stavropol) – by 12.3%;
– “NEFAZ” Inc. (Neftekamsk) – by 7.3%;
– “Tuimazy Concrete Delivery Truck Works” – by 14.1%.