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27.01.2012 

Cummins Crankshafts Will Be Made at Our Forge Plant

The forge plant of KAMAZ Metallurgical Complex has successfully finished mastering of a crankshaft forging to be mounted on engines manufactured by Cummins–Kama JV. The forging differs from that of the KAMAZ-truck for its more simple and graceful geometry. And it is this difference that made designers, technologists and production personnel work hard at the forge plant.

At the end of the last year Cummins Inc. audited the factory, and the audit confirmed that forgings made by KAMAZ Forge Plant met all the requirements for Cummins engine components. In addition, a pilot batch of forged parts was machined at the engine plant and was approved as a conforming one. Based on the results of work, it was decided to proceed to a serial production of the forging. The volume of delivery should be 300 crankshafts in February and it is scheduled to be increased up to 800 pieces for April.

15.11.2011 

The Best Chelnintsy Have Been Honoured Awards

November 15. - Vasil Shaikhraziev, the mayor of the town of Naberezhnye Chelny, presented some federal and republican awards to chelnintsy (citizens of Naberezhbye Chelny). 8 people were awarded. The solemn ceremony was held at the Palace of Festivities. There were cultural workers, public health care servants, officers of the bank sector, business and industry, representatives of the authorities there. Addressing to the heroes of the occasion, the head of the town noted a worthy tribute of anyone of them to the social and economic development of Naberezhnye Chelny.

- “The purposefulness, initiative, love of the native town and republic have formed the basis of your success and achievements “– said the mayor.

At the solemn ceremony KAMAZ Inc. was represented by Vladimir Abramov, the KAMAZ Inc. Deputy General Manager of Metallurgy and CEO of KAMAZ-Metallurgy, Plc.. He was given an honorary title of the Honoured Machine Engineer of Tatarstan for his conscientious work of many years.

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Vladimir I. Abramov has been the CEO of KAMAZ-Metallurgy, Plc. since 2005. Having graduated from the Siberian Metallurgic University, in 1975 he started work at the KAMAZ Foundry as a foreman in the steel precision casting shop. He, in person, took part in setting up of a new production area which was the piston rings shop. Under his direct supervision and with his direct participation there were conducted programs concerning the optimization of production capacities and areas of the factory, the reduction of utilities consumption, the melting-down power-saving of the electric arc furnaces. Having gained a great experience in organizing the work on development and improvement of the foundry production, today Vladimir Abramov is a leader in the determination and achievement of the strategic goals of the foundry development. The every year expansion of production volumes became evident in KAMAZ-Metallurgy Plc..

Vladimir Abramov was decorated with “The 11th Five-Year Shock Worker” breastplate, he was given the rank of the “Honoured Kamazovets” (the honoured employee of KAMAZ), “Veteran of the Plant”, awarded with the “Diploma of the Head of Naberezhnye Chelny Administration”, “Medal for the 1000th Anniversary of Kazan”. He is a member of the KAMAZ Inc. Board and a member of the Volga Region Division of the Russian Foundymen’s Association; since 2005 he has been a member of the editorial advisory board of the designated magazines such as The Foundry and The Foundryman of Russia.

In his answering speech Vladimir Abramov noted:

- “36 years ago I came to the KAMAZ Foundry as a young specialist. I have made my way in the profession from a foreman to a CEO of the Association. And now, being here in this hall, I take a special pride in my collective and in the achievements of these years. I would like to express my sincere thanks to my colleagues for their appreciation of my individual contribution to the common cause which is called KAMAZ.”

14.09.2011 

Participation of KAMAZ metallurgists in the Russian Foundrymen conference and in the exhibition ‘Casting 2011’

The Õ th Russian Foundrymen conference and international exhibition ‘Casting 2011’ are held in Kazan from 13th September to 15th September. Among the conference sponsors are Government of Republic Tatarstan, Russian Foundrymen Association (RFA), Tatarstan Regional Department of RFA, KMPO public company, by supporting of Industry and Commerce Ministry of Russian Federation. As for the quantity of participants, it rather pleased the organizers of the conference. Over 500 leading specialists in the field of foundry from Russia and foreign countries met those days and there were over 40 firms that introduced their expositions at the exhibition: casting producers, suppliers of equipment for casting production and technological material manufacturers. Specialists from KAMAZ-Metallurgy Plc. are also participating in the conference and exhibition.

The delegation from KAMAZ-Metallurgy was one of the largest in number. Over 20 specialists were involved in the work of conference and exhibition. Together with Vladimir Abramov, General Director of KAMAZ-Metallurgy Plc., the leading technologists are representing recent developments in the sphere of casting production. Their reports touch upon the most prospective and actual directions of plant activities like modern equipments for casting production, peculiarities of technological material application, finishing of castings, use of IT-decisions for casting process modeling.

There are iron, steel castings and also non-ferrous castings and forgings represented at the exhibition stand of KAMAZ-Metallurgy. All products visually demonstrate state-of-the-art capabilities of KAMAZ metallurgical block.

Excursion for the participants of the forum to the plants of Republic Tatarstan will be the final event of the work of conference and exhibition. KAMAZ-Metallurgy is one of these plants. It is planned to show production capabilities of iron casting production building for quests.

22.07.2011 

New certificates are received!

On 22nd of July there was ceremonial presentation of new certificates in KAMAZ-Metallurgy which confirmed the accordance of Quality Management Systems to the standards ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001. These documents were presented to General Director of KAMAZ-Metallurgy Vladimir Abramov by General Director of «Russian Register - Volga region» Ltd. company, Andrew Yashin.

New certificates confirmed that the recertification audit which was conducted in KAMAZ-Metallurgy Plc. by the specialists of Russian Register in April was successful. Ecological Management System of the plant was inspected and was recognized to satisfy the requirements of ISO 14001:2004 concerning designing, production and sale of iron, steel and nonferrous castings and stamped blanks, às for the systems of Precautions and Safety arrangements they also satisfied the requirements of OHSAS 18001:2007. We should admit that the first certificates were received by plant in 2008, as a result of certification audit of the systems of Precautions, Safety arrangements and Ecological Management system.

General Director of “Russian Register – Volga region” Ltd. company, Andrew Yashin:

- We all don’t only work and achieve high results in production but we live also. It is very important that our planet to be livable tomorrow. Certification in ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 which you passed successfully – is not only a step to business development, although it is very important as well, but also a step to the near future, not only for you but for your children and grandchildren. In our time it is important to be occupied with activities like Ecology and Safety arrangements. Therefore that complex work which you keep at your plant – in the field of Quality Management, Safety arrangements and Ecological Management – is an example for many other companies. Congratulations! I wish you new achievements in management system development!

17.05.2011 

Modernization of the furnaces

Simultaneously with scheduled capital repairs of melting furnaces there is also modernization of furnaces in steel casting plant of KAMAZ- Metallurgy. The purpose if this invest project is improvement of metal melting and reliability of equipment work and also reduction of costs due to charges for energy and material consumption. Two of the seven furnaces are improved for today (furnace #5 and furnace #6).

The furnace #5 was the first one. The equipment in hydraulic station of the furnace was entirely replaced– hydro supply source, control panel, arc power regulator, automated process control system was also introduced and new control equipment was installed. As a result, metal melting time was shortened for 13 minutes. And this involved also operating costs reduction: electric power, graphitized electrode, charge and refractory materials. Resource saving from the furnace #5 exploitation constitutes about two million rubles quarterly.

The Foundry is planning to finish the work within the bounds of this project in 2015.