OREANDA-NEWS. June 25, 2010. On 25 June a new cab painting line will be launched at the Press and Stamping Plant of KAMAZ which is the last action in realization of the company’s large-scale investment project.

Sergey Chemezov, Director General of Russian Technologies State Corporation, Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC KAMAZ; Ildar Khalikov, Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan; Hans-Joachim Strese, Vice President of Dьrr Systems GmbH of Components plan to participate in the solemn ceremony opening the painting line produced by Durr (Germany). They will be welcomed by Sergey Kogoghin, Director General of OJSC KAMAZ and Gamil Zaripov, Director General of Kama Press and Stamping Plant OJSC at the plant.

KAMAZ’s investment project intended for creation of the modern production line for painting of KAMAZ truck cabs has been realized step-by-step during 4 years. The agreement with Dьrr on deliveries of components of the painting line was signed in 2006. At the initial stage, by November 2007, the plant had been mounted for cab details surface preparation and cataphoresis priming. Process chambers of the painting line were launched in March 2008, and the second priming painting chamber with a drying chamber was put into service in November 2009. A finishing coating painting chamber – also with a drying chamber – was mounted at the last, fourth stage. The line speed is 75 thousand cabs a year with a possible speed-up to 125 thousand units. KAMAZ’s total investments in this project formed 1.5 billion roubles.

According to experts, the commissioning of the Durr line will increase corrosion resistance of cab details of KAMAZ trucks three times as much, ensure high quality and ornamentality of a paint-and-lacquer coating and considerably decrease manual labour due to the use of 12 robot painters. Besides, lead won’t be used in paint-and-lacquer materials, waste products will decrease by 20%, and the total emission will be reduced by 50%.