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Encyclopedia > BelAZ

BelAZ (Belarusian: БЕЛарускі Аўтамабільны Завод, Biełaruski Aŭtamabilny Zavod, Russian: БЕЛорусский Автомобильный Завод, Belorusskiy Avtomobilny Zavod, literally Belarusian Automobile Plant) or Belarusian Autoworks is a Belarusian truck manufacturer located in Žodzina. It is one of the world's largest manufacturers of super-heavy dump trucks for open-cast mining industry (capacity ranging 30-220 tonnes). Its production also includes wheeled tractors, towers, watering trucks, aerodrome tractors, wheeled bulldozers, road construction machinery, and other heavy machinery. The driver of this DAF tractor with an auto-transport semi-trailer prepares to offload Skoda Octavia cars in Cardiff, Wales For further uses of the word truck, see Truck (disambiguation). ... A dump truck is a truck used for transporting loose material (such as sand, gravel, or dirt) for construction. ... The El Chino Mine located near Silver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine This article is about mineral extraction. ... A tonne, sometimes known as metric ton in American English, (symbol t) is a unit of mass. ... A bulldozer is a powerful crawler (caterpillar tracked tractor) equipped with a blade. ...


History

  • In 1948, a peat extraction machinery plant was constructed by the railroad station Žodzina.
  • In 1951 the plant was expanded into the plant of road constuction and land improvement machinery and renamed into "Dormash" (Дормаш), an abbreviation for "дорожное машиностроение", "road construction machinery building".
  • In 1958 it was renamed into BelAZ. Initially it produced MAZ trucks.
  • In 1961 the first 27-tonne BelAZ pit and quarry dump truck was manufactured.
  • In 1990 a 280-tonne truck was manufactured.
  • In 2001 the director of BelAZ plant was awarded the order Hero of Belarus.
  • In 2005 plans were revealed for production of BELAZ-75600 with 320 tonne (320,000 kg, or over 700,000 lbs) capacity, ordered by Kuzbass mining.

Peat in Lewis, Scotland Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetable matter. ... A tonne, sometimes known as metric ton in American English, (symbol t) is a unit of mass. ... Pit may refer to: Look up Pit on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Any high walled depression in the ground, such as a quarry or (in Britain) a coal mine. ... A small cinder quarry A dimension stone quarry A quarry is a type of open-pit mine from which rock or minerals are extracted. ... Photo of Pavieł Maryjaŭ wearing the Hero of Belarus medal Hero of Belarus (Belarusian: Герой Беларусі; Łacinka: Hieroj Biełarusi; Russian: Герой Беларуси, Transliteration: Geroy Belarusi) is the highest title that can be bestowed on a citizen of Belarus. ... The Kuznetsk Basin (often abbreviated as Kuzbas, Russian: Кузбас) in southwestern Siberia, Russia, is one of the biggest coal mining areas in the world, covering an area of around 27,000 square miles (69,900 km³) between Tomsk and Novokuznetsk in the basin of the Tom river. ...

See also

Komatsu Limited (formally 株式会社小松製作所, commonly コマツ) (TYO: 6301) is a Japanese company on the Nikkei 225 index that manufactures construction and mining equipment, silicon wafers, lasers, and thermoelectric modules. ...

External links

  • BelAZ home page
  • BelAz gallery, in Russian
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