At the meeting, prospects for cooperation in the field of agricultural engineering between Kazakhstan and Russia, issues of locating the production of Russian Kirovets tractors at the site of Agromash Holding KZ in Kostanay, as well as prospects for deepening the localization and placement of components production were discussed.
The plants General Director Sergey Serebryakov expressed interest in cooperation not only in organizing the production of tractors, but also in setting up production of components: cardan shafts and wheel disks at the facilities of Agromash Holding KZ JSC.
“JSC Petersburgsky Tractorny Zavod intends to launch the production of energy-saving tractors at the facilities of JSC Agromash Holding KZ,” said Serebryakov.
On the eve he got acquainted with the potential of the production sites of the leading manufacturer of agricultural machinery in Kazakhstan, Agromash Holding KZ, a national automaker, SaryarkaAvtoProm LLP, as well as the Industrial Zone in Kostanay.
The production of the plant are popular In Kazakhstan. Thus, in the period from 2014 to 2017, about 500 Kirovets tractors were sold in Kazakhstan. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, the annual demand is about 1,600 tractors.
Petersburgsky Tractorny Zavod is a subsidiary of the Kirov Plant, one of the oldest machine-building enterprises in Russia, founded in 1801. In 2014, the mass production of K-744R series of the updated generation of heavy agricultural tractors Kirovets was launched. Now the plant produces eight modifications of Kirovets agricultural tractors of series K-744R with capacity from 300 to 450 liters and 17 types of road-building and special machines made on the basis of Kirovets industrial tractors.