MINSK, 14 August (BelTA) - The Belarusian automobile engineering company BelAZ has started supplying haul trucks with the carrying capacity of 90 tonnes to the Uchastok Koksovy mining company, a subsidiary of Russia’s Industrial Metallurgical Holding, BelTA learned from BelAZ.
More than half of vehicles supplied this year have already been assembled and put into operation. In line with the contract which was signed at the international mining expo in Russia’s Novokuznetsk in June 2019, BelAZ shall deliver 21 BelAZ 75581 haul trucks and ten BelAZ 75585 haul trucks to the Russian mining company by the end of 2019 to help it fully upgrade its fleet of heavy-duty vehicles.
Based in Zhodino, Minsk Oblast, the public joint-stock company (OAO) BelAZ is the managing company of BelAZ holding company. BelAZ is the world's leading manufacturer of haul trucks with a large carrying capacity and an extremely large carrying capacity. The company also makes other kinds of heavy transport vehicles for the mining industry and the civil engineering industry.
BelAZ was the first in the global market to offer the haul trucks with the carrying capacity of 90 tonnes and an electromechanical transmission thus satisfying the demand for high-performance vehicles with low maintenance costs.