BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

08/08/2006

Uzbek-Belarus-Russian Enterprise to Produce Diesel Engines

Excerpt from report by Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency

Tashkent, 8 August: The "Minsk motornyy zavod" [Minsk motor plant] (MMP, Belarus) unitary enterprise and the "Noginskiy zavod toplivnoy apparatury" [Noginsk fuel device plant] (NFDP, Russia) joint-stock company have set up the UzBelDizel [Uzbekistan, Belarus Diesel] joint venture in Uzbekistan to produce diesel engines, a source at the management of the Uzselxozmashxolding company [Uzbek agricultural machinery holding company], which unites factories producing agricultural machinery in Uzbekistan, has told the Interfax news agency.

[Passage omitted: the joint venture's authorized fund is 150,000 dollars]

It is expected that initially the enterprise will produce up to 6,000 engines annually, half of which will be delivered to the Tashkent tractor plant for tractors. About 3,000 engines will be given to service centres of Uzbekistan's agroindustrial sector as spare parts.

About 50 per cent of the spare parts for the production of the engines will be delivered from Russia and Belarus and the rest will be produced at affiliated enterprises in Uzbekistan.

According to the source, at present the joint venture is undergoing the process of registration at the country's ministries and agencies. It is expected that the UzBelDizel will produce about 500 engines this year already. By 2010, it is planned to raise the factory's production capacity up to 20,000 engines per year.

[Passage omitted: a plan to set up a joint venture with the USA failed in 1999 due to the lack of funds]

Source:

http://www.blackenterprise.com/yb/ybopen.asp?section=ybbf&story_id=96536061&ID=blackenterprise