KAMAZ reduced the production by 15% in April of 2022

KAMAZ reduced the production by 15% in April, by producing 3,803 trucks. According to the company, this decrease was expected in connection with the decision taken earlier by the management of KAMAZ to reduce the daily rate of the conveyor to 180 units per a day, based on an assessment of the situation on the market and preventing overstocking of the company's warehouses. According to the results of four months of 2022, KAMAZ produced 15,201 vehicles, which is 6.6% higher than the figure for the same period of the previous year, KAMAZ said in a statement.

Recall that due to the suspension of the supply of imported components under the conditions of external sanctions, the bulk of KAMAZ's production is currently made up of Euro-5 class K3 trucks. Nevertheless, the production of cars of the K4 and K5 generations also continues, however, the stock of components is still the limiting factor in production. Therefore, today the main efforts of the company are aimed at localizing imported components and the work with alternative Russian suppliers. As Sergey Kogogin, General Director of KAMAZ, stated earlier, the task of the enterprise is to start the assembly of K5 vehicles from January 2023 without the participation of foreign partners.

The initial volume of produced trucks will be small, but the company does not plan to abandon the promising line of vehicles, in the development of which a lot of money and time have been invested. In addition, today the top management of the company is taking a number of measures to organize the supply of components for the K4 line so that the assembly of these vehicles in demand on the market on the KAMAZ conveyor continues at least until the end of this year.