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BelAZ, Belarusian autoworks
БелАЗ, Беларускі аўтамабільны завод
JSC
Industry Automotive
Founded 1948
Headquarters Zhodzina, Belarus
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Piotr Parkhomchyk
Products Dump trucks
Heavy equipment
Goods wagons
Increase US$ 165 million (2011)
Website belaz.by
File:Belaz 7547.jpg
Mining dump truck BelAZ-7547
File:The Soviet Union 1971 CPA 3999 stamp (BelAZ-540 Tipper Truck).jpg
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 2006 the independent Mogilev Automobile Plant (MoAZ) was merged into BelAZ.
  • 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)
File:BelAZ-75214 truck in Russia.jpg
BelAZ-75214
File:БелАЗ-7513.jpg
BelAZ-7513
File:Belaz 75450 at Belarus Expo exhibition in Vilnius.JPG
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, Wwheel dozer
 Belaz 78221 Wheel loader

Other vehicles

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

Other products

  • BelAZ-7540

  • Belaz 7555.jpg

    BelAZ-7555

  • Belaz 75570 2.jpg

    BelAZ-75570

  • Belaz 78221.jpg

    Front-end loader BelAZ-78221

  • Belaz 75296.jpg

    Concrete mixer truck MoAZ-75296

  • Belaz 74212.jpg

    Aircraft tug BelAZ-74212

Sponsorship in football

See also

  • BelAZ-75600 - off-highway, ultra class haul trucks
  • BelAZ-75710 - the world's largest and heaviest dump truck.

References

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External links

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