Mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin and KAMAZ CEO Sergey Kogogin signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of passenger car transport development. The document provides for the organization of car production at the Moskvich plant. The priority of the plant will be the development of electric transport production. At the same time, the company's staff will be preserved. This was reported by the Moscow City Hall.
Recall that the French company Renault owned the Moscow automobile plant since 1998. In March 2022, she announced that she was closing the company and leaving the Russian market. At the same time, the former owner did not leave at the plant any technologies, design documentation, or components that should ensure production. But there were debts to the labor collective on wages for 2021 — 691 million rubles, which the Moscow Government paid immediately as soon as it became the owner of Moskvich.
For many years, the Renault Group has purposefully got rid of Russian suppliers of automotive components and transferred production to foreign spare parts and components. Therefore, the production of cars at Moskvich will have to start virtually from scratch.
It is not yet possible to immediately produce fully Russian cars today: first you will need to develop your own modern universal platform and create production of key domestic automotive components. Therefore, in order to start work as soon as possible, the Moscow Government has concluded an agreement in the field of passenger car transport development with KAMAZ.
KAMAZ will provide the plant with the necessary volumes of supplies of components from friendly countries for large-scale assembly of cars, which will be launched this year.
Within the framework of the agreement, it is planned to develop a strategy for the development of the plant for a period of eight years, including the definition of terms and conditions for the creation and development of production.
At the first stage, there will be a large—node assembly of two types of passenger cars - with an internal combustion engine and an all-electric car. The components will be supplied from friendly countries from different manufacturers.
At the second stage, it is planned to significantly expand the use of Russian components in the assembled passenger car (body parts, power controls, brake systems, and so on).
At the third stage, Moskvich will start producing domestic electric cars from key Russian components (electric motor, batteries, security and control systems).
The team of the Moskvich automobile plant today has 2305 people. The average age of employees is 38 years, the average work experience at the plant is eight years. At the same time, 42 percent of employees have been working at the company for more than 10 years. The main category of professions represented in the company is operators (56% of employees). The engineering staff includes eight percent of employees. The remaining 36% are specialists and leading specialists in various fields (25%), including logisticians, quality analysts, sales managers, financiers, lawyers, HR staff, as well as managers (11%). In the total structure of the company's employees, 22% are women. Women occupy 38% of senior positions, and 10% of operators.
PJSC KAMAZ (TIN 1650032058) is the largest automobile corporation of the Russian Federation, a manufacturer of trucks and passenger vehicles. The KAMAZ group of companies includes large specialized divisions for the development, production, assembly of automotive equipment and automotive components, as well as the sale of finished products. The main shareholders are Rostec Group, Avtoinvest Limited, Daimler, KAMAZ International Management, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Decodelement Services Limited.
