MAZ company today
Production Republican Unitary Enterprise "Minsk Automobile Plant" - is one of the largest state enterprises of the Republic of Belarus for production of heavy-load vehicles as well as buses, trolley-buses, trailers and semi-trailers.
The factory is an independent economic entity having the right of legal body, it is a parent enterprise of the Production association "BelavtoMAZ", which as well incorporates RUP "BAAZ" (city of Baranovichi), RUP "OZAA" (city of Osipovichi), RUA "KZTSH" (city of Zhodino), RUP "Litmash" (city of Minsk), PRUP "DEMZ" (city of Dzerzhynsk), RUP "StrojMAZtrest" (city of Minsk).
Minsk Automobile Plant incorporates all kinds of existing productions characteristic for modern and large engineering plants among which you can find: foundry, forge, press, welding, machining process, thermal, painting, assembly, tooling productions.
A range of produced automobiles includes fifth-wheel truck tractors, drop-side, middle-ton low-frame automobiles, dump trucks, timber trucks, short log trucks, off-highway vehicles, chassis automobile to be completed with all kinds of special equipment and plants. Wheel arrangements of the above-enumerated vehicles are represented by the following variants: 4х2, 4х4, 6х4, 6х6. All in all MAZ factory produces more than 250 modifications of automobiles. As for mass production the factory has mastered 6 generations of heavy-load trucks. MAZ automobiles are the embodiment of the most modern and progressive design decisions, advanced domestic and foreign technologies that have allowed obtaining maximum possible cargo capacities at minimum values of vehicle laden masses; high average schedule speed, comfort and low labour-intensiveness of maintenance, fuel efficiency, flotation ability and reliability combined with low operating costs.
Minsk Automobile Plant produces more than 60 modifications of trailers and semi-trailers. It allows development and production of truck tractors completely unified with semi-trailers, and drop-side automobiles - with trailers. Trailers and semi-trailers (one-, two-, three-axle) can be equipped with awning rigid and isothermal bodies; chassis trailers are used to be completed with different special equipment. The factory has set up production of trailers towards dump trucks with two-sided unloading; there is also production of trailers towards motor cars.
Starting from 1995, the factory produces city, suburban and international buses. Minsk Automobile Plant has achieved serial production of 12 models of buses and more than 30 modifications on their basis, among which you can find special buses designed for operation in specific conditions: in the northern regions - with special heating system and heat insulation of the passenger compartment, double floor, diminished area of glass cover, and in the southern regions - with enhanced ventilation system and increased sliding air vents. Starting from 2004, the factory produces a small-size bus MAZ 256 designed for 28 seats with the body from glass-fiber material, by the way it was for the first time in bus production practice that plastic parts for the body were painted in bulk.
In 2001 MAZ company mastered production of trolley-buses. As one of the main advantages of MAZ trolley-buses specialists note that as for basic number of units and aggregates, as well as body design the trolley-bus is unified with MAZ buses that provide comfort and universality of maintenance.
At present, heavy-load MAZ trucks - are automobiles corresponding Euro-2, Euro-3 and Euro-4 requirements. These automobiles are the embodiment of the most modern and progressive design decisions that allowed obtaining new consumer qualities of trucks enabling them to compete with the best world analogues.
So that the factory could move up to production of new competitive vehicles there has been developed a project of technical re-equipment of the enterprise covering most of its productions.
For their further work top management of RUE "MAZ" among the tasks of primary importance defines production of competitive products meeting customers requirements, renewal of its product range and quality improvement, perfection of sales pattern and service structure, reducing production costs, increasing production capacities and conquering a high status among producers of heavy-load automobile, trailer-and-semi-trailer and bus vehicles.