BelAZ
BelAZ
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Type | JSC |
|---|---|
| Industry | Automotive |
| Founded | 1948 |
| Headquarters | Zhodzina, Belarus |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Piotr Parkhomchyk |
| Products | Dump trucks Haul trucks Heavy equipment Goods wagons |
Net income |  US$ 165 million (2011) |
| Website | belaz.by [11] |
Mining dump truck BelAZ-7547
1971 USSR postage stamp depicting BelAZ 540
BelAZ (Belarusian: Беларускі аўтамабільны завод, romanized: Belaruski autamabilny zavod, lit. 'Belarusian Automobile Plant', Russian: Белорусский автомобильный завод or БелАЗ), 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.
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Type | JSC |
|---|---|
| Industry | Automotive |
| Founded | 1948 |
| Headquarters | Zhodzina, Belarus |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Piotr Parkhomchyk |
| Products | Dump trucks Haul trucks Heavy equipment Goods wagons |
Net income | US$ 165 million (2011) |
| Website | belaz.by [11] |
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
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
Belaz 78221 Wheel loader
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
Sponsorship in football
FC Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino
See also
BelAZ-75600 - off-highway, ultra class haul trucks
BelAZ-75710 - the world's largest and heaviest dump truck.