OAO Chelyabinsk Forge-and-Press Plant (Russian: ОАО "Челябинский Кузнечно-прессовый завод") (Joint Stock Company Chelyabinsk Forge-and-Press Plant) (Abbreviated as OAO ChKPZ) (RTS:CHKZIN) is a machine building and automobile component manufacturing company based in Chelyabinsk, Russia.
The company's main products are special purpose vehicles such as dumpers, short loggers, timber trucks, pipe trucks and bolsters,[1] as well as wheels for cars, trucks, trolleybuses, trailers and semi-trailers and for heavy hauler and road construction machinery.[1][2] In addition, the company produces forgings and presses used in manufacture of pipeline armature, cars and trucks, special-purpose equipment, vehicles, railway transport.[3]
Most of the Chelyabinsk Forge-and-Press Plant's products are sold in Russia and in the former republics of the USSR, as well as in countries of Europe, Africa, and Asia.[4]
The company's stock is listed on the Russian Trading System, and it currently has about 3,000 employees.[5] It has two associated companies - Garmoniya OOO and Uraldormash ZAO.[2]
The American magazine Business Week praised the company in its article published on 7 May 2009, describing it as a showcase of efficiency. The magazine especially praised the abilities of the company's 26-year-old CEO Andrey Gartung.[6]