OREANDA-NEWS. SSAB is the world’s largest steel producer and KAMAZ’s supplier of high-strength steel. OJSC KAMAZ usually cooperates only with reliable and efficient suppliers always trying to improve their products and introduce new technologies into production processes. To assess suppliers’ activities and categorize them according to the company’s requirements, KAMAZ checks different factors – from product quality and engineering tests to logistics. Suppliers receive grades for each parameter and the composite score once a quarter. The AB category means “Reliable Supplier”.

Andrey Chuprin, Sales Manager for Russia, Belarus, Central Asia at SSAB, confirmed that KAMAZ’s high appraisal is of great importance to the company. “We are proud that OJSC KAMAZ, the leader of the Russian truck industry, named SSAB a reliable supplier,” he said.