BelAZ

BelAZ, Belarusian autoworks
БелАЗ, Беларускі аўтамабільны завод

Type	JSC
Industry	Automotive
Founded	1948
Headquarters	Zhodzina, Belarus
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Piotr Parkhomchyk
Products	Dump trucks Heavy equipment Goods wagons
Net income	US$ 165 million (2011)
Website	belaz.by

Mining dump truck BelAZ-7547

1971 USSR postage stamp depicting BelAZ 540

BelAZ (Belarusian: Беларускі аўтамабільны завод or БелАЗ, Romanized: Belaruski autamabilny zawod or BelAZ) is a Belarusian manufacturer of haulage and earthmoving equipment based in Zhodzina. The factory opened its door in 1948 and has produced over 120,000 vehicles for use in the Soviet Union.

BELAZ is a site for one of the largest Commonwealth of Independent States investment project. The factory finalized two of the three scheduled phases of the technical re-equipment and upgrades. The Quality Management System applied in research and development, fabrication, erection and after-sale service of the equipment complies with international ISO 9000 standards.

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, Pavel Maryev, was awarded the order Hero of Belarus.
In 2005 plans were revealed for production of BelAZ-75600 with 320 tonne (352,600 kg, or 352.6 tons) capacity, ordered by Kuzbass mining.
In fall of 2006 the first delivery of BelAZ-75600.^[1]
In April 2012, BelAZ announced it would hold an IPO – the first in Belarus.^[2]
In September 2013, BelAZ presented the first sample of mining dump truck BelAZ-75710, the world largest dump truck with 450 tons load capacity.^[3]

Models

BelAZ-548A (1967)

BelAZ-75214

BelAZ-7513

BelAZ-75450

Discontinued models

Mining dump trucks

MAZ-525, 25 t (1958–1965)
BelAZ-540, 27 t (1965)
BelAZ-540A
BelAZ-540B, 45 t
BelAZ-548A, 40 t (1967)
BelAZ-548B, 65 t
BelAZ-549, 75–80 t (1969)
BelAZ-7519, 110–120 t (1977)
BelAZ-7521, 180 t (1979)
BelAZ-75211, 170–220 t (1983)
BelAZ-75214
BelAZ-7522
BelAZ-75303
BelAZ-75483

Current model range

Mining dump trucks

BelAZ-7540, 30 t
BelAZ-7545, 45 t
BelAZ-7547, 42–45 t
BelAZ-7555, 55–60 t (since 1994)
BelAZ-7557, 90 t
BelAZ-7513, 110–130 t (since 1996)
BelAZ-7517, 154–160 t
BelAZ-7530, 180–220 t
BelAZ-7531, 240 t
BelAZ-7560, 320–360 t
BelAZ-7558, 90 t
BelAZ-7571, 450 t (since 2013)

Note: New models^[4] are highlighted in bold.

Construction & road-building vehicles

MoAZ-4048, front-end loader, 7.5 t
BelAZ-7822, front-end loader, 7 t
BelAZ-7823, wheel dozer
MoAZ-60148, scraper
MoAZ-60007, scraper
Concrete mixer trucks

Other vehicles

MoAZ-75296, low-profile mining and tunneling concrete mixer truck
BelAZ-74212, aircraft tug

Other products

Articulated haulers
Underground vehicles
Vehicles for mine-servicing works
Vehicles for metallurgical works
Goods wagons: covered hoppers, open wagons, flat wagons

BelAZ-7540
BelAZ-7555
BelAZ-75570
Front-end loader BelAZ-78221
Concrete mixer truck MoAZ-75296
Aircraft tug BelAZ-74212

Sponsorship in football

1989-1993: BelAZ Zhodino

References

↑ Два новых карьерных самосвала "БелАЗ-75600" грузоподъемностью 320 т. (in Russian). 2006-09-11. Retrieved 2009-03-20.
↑ "BelAZ Truck to hold first Belarusian IPO". Steelguru. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
↑ "BELAZ produced the world's largest dump truck with 450 tons load capacity". Land of Ancestors. 2013. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
↑ "BelAZ. Our Products. Mining Dump Trucks". Retrieved 9 November 2013.

External links

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Automotive industry in Belarus

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Active vehicle manufacurers	BelAZ Belkommunmash MAZ M1nsk MTZ MZKT Neman

Active Joint Ventures	MAZ-MAN Unison (IKCO Samand) BelGee (Geely)

Defunct Joint Ventures	Ford Union

Related topics	Ministry of Transport and Communications of Belarus