BelAZ heavy-duty truck manufacturer is due to hold a contest to choose a project developer, a project designer and an equipment supplier for a $45 million project aimed at upgrading the truck manufacturer’s CNC machine workshop.
The closing date for applications is December 23. The equipment and solutions are to be supplied in the period from January 23 till December 31, 2017.
The Belarusian Automobile Plant (BelAZ) was set up in 1958. It is one of the world’s largest producers of automobiles for open cast mines and building significant hydroengineering objects.
The company assembles over 200 models of mine trucks with the carrying capacity ranging from 30 to 450 tons, special machines (front loaders, wheel bulldozers, wheel vehicles for metallurgic companies, aircraft haulers, irrigative machinery, automobile dump semitrailers, and consumer goods).
Engines for rock handlers are supplied by foreign companies such as Cummins (USA) and Deutz (Germany), less powerful ones are bought from Yaroslavl Automobile Plant and Ural Motor Plant (Russia).
The annual output equals 800-900 items. BelAZ produces heavy-duty trucks for open-cast mining in South-East Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. (Prime-TASS/Business World Magazine)