BelAZ

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БелАЗ
BelAZ

logo
legal form AG
founding 1948
Seat BelarusBelarus Belarus , Schodsina
Number of employees 10,739
Branch Construction machinery manufacturer
Website www.belaz.by

Soviet postage stamp from 1971. The picture shows a BelAZ-540.

BelAZ ( Belarusian БелАЗ - Беларускі аўтамабільны завод / Belaruski autamabilny sawod, in German Belarusian automobile plant , German transcription actually BelAS ) is a Belarusian vehicle manufacturer with headquarters in Schodsina . The company manufactures large dump trucks , heavy earthmoving equipment such as B. wheel loaders , concrete mixers , but also aircraft tractors or rail freight cars.

history

In November 1958, a heavy tipper for a payload of 25 tons was assembled in a factory for road construction machines in Dormasch near Schodsina. The individual parts were supplied by the commercial vehicle manufacturer MAZ . The vehicle was still given the designation MAZ-525 . Series production of these 25-ton tippers, which were now manufactured under the name BelAZ-525 , began just one year later . In 1961 the prototype BelAZ-540 with a payload of 27 tons and two years later the BelAZ-548 for a payload of 40 tons was presented. When series production of the BelAZ-540 started in 1965, production of the -525 was discontinued. In the mid-1970s, dump trucks with a maximum payload of 75 and 120 tons were developed.

A 180 ton dump truck with the type designation BelAZ-7521 was built in 1979 for test purposes. A 280 ton vehicle was also built, which was mainly used in opencast mining in Russia. In the 1980s and 1990s, aircraft tugs were also manufactured that can pull aircraft with a total weight of up to 200 tons. Vehicles with a payload of 30 to 450 tons are currently available.

In 2006 MoAZ became part of BelAZ. MoAZ exports more than 60% of the commercial vehicles it produces to the CIS countries . In 2012, the company established a joint venture in Barysaw with the Chinese company Geely International Corporation .

Models

BelAZ-548A (1967)
BelAZ-75214 compared to a Great Wall Safe SUV

Unless otherwise stated, they are large dump trucks. If known, the payload and year of first production are listed. New models are marked in bold.

Historical models

  • ex MAZ-525 as BelAZ-525, 25 t (1958–1965)
  • ex MAZ-530 as BelAZ-530, 40 t (1960–1963)
  • BelAZ-540 , 27 t (1961–1967)
  • BelAZ-540A , 27 t (1967–1985)
  • BelAZ-540B , 45 t (1962, prototype)
  • 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 models

gallery

  • BelAZ-7540 dump truck at Innoprom 2013

  • BelAZ-7547 dump truck

  • BelAZ-7555 dump truck

  • Dump truck BelAZ-75570

  • BelAZ-7513 dump truck

  • Wheel loader BelAZ-78221

  • Concrete mixer MoAZ-75296

  • Aircraft tug BelAZ-74212

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Employee numbers from 2015 at various Belarusian companies (Russian)
  2. ↑ a b BelAZ. Products. Mining dump trucks. Retrieved November 4, 2013 .
  3. ↑ "Mogilev Autoworks named after SM Kirov" (MoAZ) (English)
  4. ↑ BELTA. Chinese car factory in Belarusian Borisov nearly ready (English) ( Memento from February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

Commons : BelAZ  - collection of images