NEFAZ PTC, a subsidiary of KAMAZ in Bashkiria, entered the "Golden Hundred" of the competition "100 Best Goods of Russia". The award ceremony of the 25th jubilee All-Russian Competition of the Program 100 Best Goods of Russia was held in Ufa, at the VDNH-EXPO site.
The subsidiary of KAMAZ submitted the city low-floor bus NEFAZ-5299-0000040-57 with a gas engine for competition. Previously, it had been chosen the winner of the republican competition “Best Goods of Bashkortostan” and got an opportunity to participate in the federal stage.
The bus produced by NEFAZ PTC became the winner of the competition in the nomination “Industrial and Technical Goods” and the holder of the honorary diploma “Golden Hundred”. Besides, the company won the award of the program “100 Best Goods of Russia” – the prize “For Achievements in Import Phase-Out”, and General Director of NEFAZ Vladimir Kurganov won the Badge of Honor “For Achievements in the Quality Assurance Sphere”. The prestigious awards were presented to Quality Director of NEFAZ PTC Inna Sokolova by Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Repiblic of Bashkortostan – Minister of Industry, Energy and Innovations Aleksandr Sheldyaev, and Director of FSFI CSU of the Republic of Bashkortostan Sergey Sevnitsky.
“Industrial companies of the region place a stake on the quality and the latest manufacturing technologies. This offers them competitive advantages on the Russian and foreign markets. The enterprises actively develop their own inventions and, what’s important, cooperate with other companies. Such collaborations can often be observed between production facilities in sectoral clusters. Collaboration between NEFAZ and republican enterprises Avtoplast, Salavatsteklo, Avtonormal, Iskozh is cooperation uniting the leaders of the auto components industry and Russia’s top bus producer,” noted Aleksandr Sheldyaev.
NEFAZ PTC is a regular participant of the competition “100 Best Goods of Russia” and a multiple winner both of the regional and federal stages. The victory of 2022 has become the seventeenth one for NEFAZ.