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AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY

 

Belarus specializes in manufacture of trucks. In the recent years, a breakthrough has been made in this field related to the manufactured trucks, buses and special machinery. The enterprises of this industry manufacture machines with up to 220 tons load-carrying capacity. The production scale is increased; the product quality is improved. Only the Minsk Automobile Plant manufactures over one hundred modifications of trucks. This is the only enterprise in the CIS, which manufactures long-distance articulated trucks meeting EURO-2 and EURO-3 requirements.

The automotive industry includes 35 enterprises and organizations manufacturing vehicles and articulated trucks for international carriage, dump trucks and timber carriers, all-wheel-drive cross-country vehicles, heavy-duty quarry dump trucks and dump trailers, loaders, self-propelled scrapers, truck trailers and semi-trailers, trailers for cars, bicycles, motorcycles, components and spare parts for vehicles. The industry includes special research and design institutes, which develop new products, technologies and equipment.

The Minsk Automobile Plant manufactures vehicles and articulated trucks, tractor trucks for international and long-distance carriage, dump trucks, timber carriers, cargo trailers and semi-trailers, town and long-distance buses, caravan trailers for cars.

The Minsk Plant of Wheeled Tractors manufactures heavy-duty and large carrying capacity articulated trucks, off-road all-wheel-drive chassis and dump trucks, and truck cranes.

The Belarusian Automobile Plant in the town of Zhodino manufactures heavy-duty and extra heavy-duty quarry dump trucks, cargo and cargo-passenger vehicles as well as ambulances of low load-carrying capacity and loaders.

The Mogilev Automobile Plant named after S.M.Kirov manufactures scrapers, articulated trucks for underground mines and tunnels, tractor trucks for aircraft, loaders for mining, and concrete-mixer vehicles.

The Minsk Engine Plant manufactures four- and six-cylinder diesel engines for automotive industries, including turbo engines.

The Minsk Motorcycle and Bicycle Plant manufactures road, sport, mountain, tourist bicycles and motorcycles.

Belkard Grodno Enterprise manufactures universal joints for vehicles.

Avtoguidrousilitel Borisov Plant manufactures hydraulic steering boosters for vehicles.

The Borisov Plant of Vehicle Electrical equipment manufactures starters and other electrical equipment for automotive-tractor machinery.

The Grodno Plant of Vehicle Units manufactures shock absorbers, brake disks and children's bicycles.

 

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National Centre for Marketing and Price Study

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Online Catalogue of Belarusian Goods, Services and Companies
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GUIDEBOOK ON DOING BUSINESS IN BELARUS
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Internet resource on investment potential of Belarus

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Belarus Investment Projects

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Belarus Innovation Projects

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Tractor and Agricultural Machine Building

This sector oriented towards the agrarian sector of economy. Recently it improved quality of its traditional products and manufactures new models of machinery. The agricultural machinery sector includes 30 enterprises, which provide machines for the agro-industrial complex, including machines for agricultural products processing.

New products are developed by specialized institutes, special design departments and plants; design departments. The enterprises are oriented towards manufacture of agricultural machinery and equipment for processing sectors. The leading enterprises of this sector, Minsk Tractor Works Production Amalgamation, has begun to manufacture a new series of tractors with the power of up to 130 h.p. with the synchronized gearbox, a hydraulic steering and a modern hydraulic system. Preparations are made to manufacture machines MTZ-1522 150-180 h.p.; a new more powerful tractor (up to 250 h.p.) is being designed.

The enterprise is among the seven largest exporters of such machinery in the world.

The Minsk Tractor Works manufactures universal tractors of 50-180 h.p. (22 models), small tractors of 20-35 h.p. (6 models), motor units and mini-tractors 8-12 h.p. (8 models), communal, loading, mining and forest machines (815 models). Gomselmash Production Amalgamation manufactures self-propelled fodder harvesters, universal energy facilities, fodder and beet-root complexes, sowing machines, mowers, reapers, wood-planting machines, mini-tractors and grain harvesters.

The Minsk Gears Plant manufactures tooth shafts and wheels for automotive and other machinery, steel forging equipment and tractor ploughs.

Bobruyskagromash Plant manufactures transport technology machines for spreading liquid and solid organic and mineral fertilizers, complexes of machines for hay making, transportation and distribution of coarse fodder in rolls, mobile universal fodder distributors and machines for flax harvesting.

Lidselmash Enterprise manufactures potato sowers, cultivator-cum-ridgers, potato harvesters and digging machines, disk harrows, tractor ploughs, pneumatic universal sowers and other types of agricultural machinery.

Bobruyskselmash Plant manufactures the following equipment for the MTZ tractors: segment-finger mowers, dump trailer "Bizon" (7 t), and a "Pauk" device for timber trailing. The Plant also manufactures "Fortuna" trailers for cars, sets of school furniture (desks and chairs), mini-complexes for garbage collection, and equipment for housing and communal facilities.

Brestselmash Plant manufactures equipment for heating, ventilation and hot-water supply: heat generators, furnace units, steam boilers and boilers for houses, and grain dryers (8 t/h).

Mozyrselmash Plant manufactures equipment for heating, ventilation and hot-water supply: heat generators, water-heating installations, and boilers for houses.

The Brest Electro-Mechanical Concern manufactures pneumatic universal grain sowers.