KAMAZ PTC has summed up the production results for December and the whole year 2021. The company produced vehicle sets by 18% more than for 2020.
The facilities of KAMAZ's single technological cycle produced 4,478 vehicle sets in December 2021 (4,465 units for the same period of 2020). In all, within a year the company produced 44,136 units, which is by 18% more year-over-year (compare with 37,345 units).
The engine plant and JV CUMMINS KAMA produced and delivered to their customers 4,663 engines and power units in December (4,314 units for the same period in the previous year). In total, such products were made in the amount of 47,949 units for a year (40,848 units, +17% y-o-y).
KAMAZ’s dealers, service centers, corporate and other customers received spare parts for the sum of 30.7 billion roubles for the whole year 2021 (25.04 billion roubles, +22.6% y-o-y), including 2.74 billion roubles (2.68 billion roubles for the same period of the previous year) for December 2021.
“Last year was difficult for our production. All manufacturers, KAMAZ is no exception, faced delays in deliveries of various vehicle components. But company’s all divisions working as one team enabled to avoid suspension of production and achieve one of the best performance indicators for the last ten years,” said Sergey Kogogin, General Director of KAMAZ PTC.
“Despite the pandemic and related difficulties, KAMAZ managed to achieve the 2021 goals, having exceeded the previous year’s production indicators by 18%. The company is going the right way: it continues modernizing production, in 2021 more than 13 billion roubles were invested in the development of the product range, over 1 billion roubles were allocated for research and development, design and experimental activities. New models of K5 trucks were commercialized, electric bus production is expanding, the KAMAZ-6290 – a green public vehicle running on hydrogen fuel cells – is almost developed. These are stepping stones to the company’s unchallenged leadership in the future. Our closest task is to master the production of the whole line of K5 generation trucks, expand the production of passenger vehicles to 2 thous. units a year, and boost exports of our products,” said Sergey Chemezov, General Director of Rostec State Corporation, Chairman of the Board of Directors of KAMAZ PTC.