MAZ-MAN starts producing new-generation trucks

The joint venture MAZ-MAN started the production of new generation trucks, the Business Relations Agency told BelTA referring to the company.

In terms of aggregate technical and economic parameters, the new trucks will allow their owners address problems related to cost optimization of freight transportation, said Stanislav Ivaniushenko, director of the MAZ-MAN sales and maintenance department.

The enterprise has already made three samples of the new generation trucks: dump truck MAZ-MAN-652036 and the two chassis. One of them is MAZ-MAN-632044 (for installation onboard the platform, environmental class Euro-4), second one is MAZ-MAN-632036 (under the crane installation, environmental class Euro-3). Currently performance and certification testing of machines is nearing completion. First contracts for their delivery have been concluded.

By mid-January MAZ-MAN sold the last truck of the previous generation specified to the Business Relations Agency. According to technical director of the joint venture MAZ-MAN Vasily Yaskov, “despite the fact that the new machines look little different from previous ones, we are talking about a new generation of trucks rather than the upgrade of the already known models.” Application of the new MAN truck diesel engines of the D-20 series required a fundamental change in the layout of components and assemblies, a new frame. When developing the first samples we took into account the post-crisis state of the truck market. We decided to offer customers a more streamlined vehicle according to parameters such as price, fuel economy, curb weight.

Joint venture MAZ-MAN was created (registered) by MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG, MAZ and Lada OMC Holding in 1998. Shareholders are II & V GmbH (Austria, 48.2% of shares), MAZ (Belarus, 44.43%) and Trustbank (Belarus, 7.37% of shares). Since 2005, the joint venture MAZ-MAN has been the official dealer of MAN in Belarus. MAZ-MAN is a manufacturer of eight of its own models of trucks and several models of wheel loaders. 

BelTA