BelAZ

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BelAZ is a Belarusian manufacturer of haulage and earthmoving equipment.

Founded in 1948, the factory maintains a status of flagship of Belarussian industry for many years. For more than a fifty years history the company produced about 120 thousands of vehicles which all were hard at work not only on the immense territories of the Soviet Union but in 50 countries all around the globe.

Beginning from the 90’s of the last century the company faced the necessity to adapt itself to the new economic environment but the company remained solid to broaden the product line of the haul trucks and even top launch all-new products for road construction and metallurgical production. BELAZ continued sustainable growth in the new century and actually it is the company which benefits from own designing and research basis, up-to-date production facilities and management, qualified and motivated staff; and all the factors are brought together to produce reliable and competitive heavy-duty equipment for mining, construction and other industries.

The BELAZ machines feature improved power-to-weight ratio, smooth ride and comfortable working environment, good controllability and overall reliability. The trucks gained reputation of efficient haulers for mining, quarrying and construction applications in the Arctic North or Tropical South.

BELAZ is proud to be a site for one of the largest in the CIS investment project. The factory finalized two of the three scheduled phases of the technical re-equipment and this enables to provide higher quality, economic effectiveness and reliability of the products. The Quality Management System applied in research & development, fabrication, erection and after-sale service of the equipment complies with international ISO 9000 standards.

[edit] History

• In 1948, a peat extraction machinery plant was constructed by the railroad station Žodzina.
• In 1951 the plant was expanded into the plant of road construction and land improvement machinery and renamed into "Dormash" (Дормаш), an abbreviation for "дорожное машиностроение", "road construction machinery building".
• In 1958 it was renamed into BelAZ. Initially it produced MAZ trucks.
• In 1961 the first 27-tonne BelAZ pit and quarry dump truck was manufactured.
• In 1990 a 280-tonne truck was manufactured.
• In 2001 the director of BelAZ plant, Pavieł Maryjaŭ, was awarded the order Hero of Belarus.
• In 2005 plans were revealed for production of BELAZ-75600 with 320 tonne (320,000 kg, or over 700,000 lbs) capacity, ordered by Kuzbass mining.

[edit] See also

Russo-Balt BELAZ - official distributor of BELAZ

[edit] External links

• BelAZ home page
• BelAz gallery, in Russian
• The fullest technical information. 3D models BELAZ