BelAZ may start using Russian engines if tests successful
<p> MINSK, Apr 27 - PrimePress. Series supplies of the innovative DM-185 engine engineered by the Ural Diesel Engine Plant (UDMZ, Yekaterinburg, Russia; member of the Sinara Transport Machines holding) for BelAZ dump trucks may start in 2022 provided they are successfully tested in a quarry, said Belarus’ Deputy Minister of Industry of Dmitry Kharitonchik. </p> <p> </p> <p> “This year it will be tested in the pit, and if it shows exactly the characteristics we expect, then next year we can talk about mass deliveries of the Ural engine,” Kharitonchik noted during a visit to UDMZ. </p> <p> </p> <p> In turn, UDMZ Director General Petr Skvortsov said that his company hopes to outbid manufacturers from other countries based on the results of pilot operation of the engine. At the moment BelAZ mostly installs Cummins engines on its dump trucks. </p> <p> </p> <p> “We are ready to start deliveries tomorrow, but we need to make sure that the engine is really reliable. We always use the customer’s opinion, it is important to convince him that it (the engine – editor’s note) meets his expectations," Skvortsov said. </p> <p> </p> <p> BelAZ started cooperating with UDMZ in 2017, when the engine was shipped to the Belarusian company to work as part of the Belaz-75319 dump truck. The engine is currently being run-in and fine-tuned. </p> <p> </p> <p> The Belarusian Automobile Plant (BelAZ) was set up in 1948. It is one of the world’s largest producers of automobiles for open cast mines and building significant hydroengineering objects. </p> <p> </p> <p> The company assembles over 200 models of mine trucks with the carrying capacity ranging from 30 to 450 tons, special machines (front loaders, wheel bulldozers, wheel vehicles for metallurgic companies, aircraft haulers, irrigative machinery, automobile dump semitrailers, and consumer goods). </p> <p> Engines for rock handlers are supplied by foreign companies such as Cummins (USA) and Deutz (Germany), less powerful ones are bought from Yaroslavl Automobile Plant and Ural Motor Plant (Russia). </p> <p> </p> <p> The annual output equals 800-900 items. BelAZ produces heavy-duty trucks for open-cast mining in South-East Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. The company controls one-third of the global market of dump trucks. The company’s traditional markets are Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. End </p>
2021-04-28
Primepress
BelAZ may start using Russian engines if tests successful
MINSK, Apr 27 - PrimePress. Series supplies of the innovative DM-185 engine engineered by the Ural Diesel Engine Plant (UDMZ, Yekaterinburg, Russia; member of the Sinara Transport Machines holding) for BelAZ dump trucks may start in 2022 provided they are successfully tested in a quarry, said Belarus’ Deputy Minister of Industry of Dmitry Kharitonchik.
“This year it will be tested in the pit, and if it shows exactly the characteristics we expect, then next year we can talk about mass deliveries of the Ural engine,” Kharitonchik noted during a visit to UDMZ.
In turn, UDMZ Director General Petr Skvortsov said that his company hopes to outbid manufacturers from other countries based on the results of pilot operation of the engine. At the moment BelAZ mostly installs Cummins engines on its dump trucks.
“We are ready to start deliveries tomorrow, but we need to make sure that the engine is really reliable. We always use the customer’s opinion, it is important to convince him that it (the engine – editor’s note) meets his expectations," Skvortsov said.
BelAZ started cooperating with UDMZ in 2017, when the engine was shipped to the Belarusian company to work as part of the Belaz-75319 dump truck. The engine is currently being run-in and fine-tuned.
The Belarusian Automobile Plant (BelAZ) was set up in 1948. It is one of the world’s largest producers of automobiles for open cast mines and building significant hydroengineering objects.
The company assembles over 200 models of mine trucks with the carrying capacity ranging from 30 to 450 tons, special machines (front loaders, wheel bulldozers, wheel vehicles for metallurgic companies, aircraft haulers, irrigative machinery, automobile dump semitrailers, and consumer goods).
Engines for rock handlers are supplied by foreign companies such as Cummins (USA) and Deutz (Germany), less powerful ones are bought from Yaroslavl Automobile Plant and Ural Motor Plant (Russia).
The annual output equals 800-900 items. BelAZ produces heavy-duty trucks for open-cast mining in South-East Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. The company controls one-third of the global market of dump trucks. The company’s traditional markets are Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. End