KAMAZ is ready to reduce the working week by one day

The Tatarstan publication Business Online found that the Chelninsky plant was discussing the transition to a four-day due to low demand. In the truck market, overstocking, there are a lot of cars on the drains of dealers, so there is no need to produce new ones. There is no talk of an instant reduction in the working week: KamAZ will study the market until July. If the decision to switch to a four-day will still be taken, then the workers will be notified in two months.

The problem with the oversaturation of the Russian car market of trucks, the head of KAMAZ, Sergei Kogogin spoke in an interview at the end of March. Then the general director of the auto giant said that in 2025 the plant “you can not produce anything at all – all these cars are already there.” However, a four -day working week is not the only possible scenario for optimization of production.

It turned out which KAMAZ of the K3 line will be the first to resign Weichai showed the latest diesel with a resource 50% more than that of KamAZ KamAZ showed a new heavy tractor with a carrying capacity of 108 tons

Not only KAMAZ was encountered with products sales problems. In March, the manufacturer of agricultural machinery Rostselmash moved to the shortened working week, and from July 1, the “extra” day off will be added to employees of the largest Russian plant for the production of diesel engines – Avtodisel (YaMZ) from Yaroslavl.

According to Avtostat in April 2025, the demand for heavy trucks (with a full weight of more than 16 tons) decreased by 59% compared to last year, and in the mid -toning segment (full weight from 3.5 to 16 tons), the fall was 48%. Only the segment of light commercial machines (-14% in April) is kept, but in the KAMAZ lineup this category includes only “compass 3”, which is still on the way to the series.

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