History
2024: Launch of trailer production
At the end of February 2024, mass production of trailed vehicles based on the Belarusian OJSC "" began in Ulyanovsk. MAZ The project was implemented on the basis of the existing site of Akro Trading House LLC in the Zasviyazhsky district of the city.
According to Interfax, the project to create the production of trailed vehicles based on MAZ vehicles has been implemented since February 2022. TD "Akro" acts as an investor, "MAZ" - as a co-investor-technological partner. By the beginning of March 2024, 500 million rubles were invested in the project. The first 20 units of products were released. The production capacity of the project is up to 600 units per year. LLC Trading House Akro and OJSC MAZ intend to capitalize joint production by 2 billion rubles.
A land plot in the Zavolzhye industrial park is being considered as a site for placing a new production building, said Alina Abitova, General Director of the Ulyanovsk Region Development Corporation, in early March 2024. According to Boris Muschinsky, First Deputy Commercial Director of MAZ, after expanding production at the next stages, we will be able to significantly increase the volume of products - up to 2 thousand units per year. The new enterprise will create almost 200 jobs for residents of the Ulyanovsk region.
LLC Trading House Akro operates on the basis of the Akro special equipment plant, which was founded as a plant for the production of special vehicles, special and metal-cutting tools. By March 2024, the company produces automotive equipment and components, has the status of an official dealer and service partner of MAZ OJSC and MZ Tonar LLC[1]