Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant

Not that the company closed, but not so easy to get there. This year marks the 60th anniversary MWTP. Regarding the celebration of the gate CAT reporters were allowed to look. On average salary, new developments, plans, modernization and sale of a Russian investor in a report read.
MWTP was founded in July 1954 and has long functioned as the Special Bureau of Minsk Automobile Plant on heavy wheeled artillery tractors and engines. In 1991, the reorganization took place. Soon the technique began to produce under the brand Volat. In 2010, UE "Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant" has become a public company. The plant is part of the State Military-Industrial Committee. 100% of the shares (at the moment) belongs to Belarus.



This is a great company, a city in the city, with more than 5 thousand. Employees, excluding subsidiaries. Here are 10 production plants, 25 departments, 10 departments. Schematically, the production cycle is as follows: market research, development of technical specifications for the designer, designing, manufacturing machine, its testing and subsequent refinement. We are told that in Soviet times, the chain took an average of 5 years, but now the pace of porridge will not weld. The customer will not wait. Actual period from idea to pipeline - up to 1 year of civil engineering and from 2 to 3 years of military technique, there is more stringent standards. Factory warranty "defense industry", by the way, is 10 years.
Journalists are in the research center. Here, all the tested units and components that will be used after the manufacture reducers, transmission, brakes, and so on. "In order to test even the smallest detail, it is necessary to make a special stand, - says head of department. - Much of the equipment was put back in the Soviet times. With the manufacturer's conduct of its modernization, in particular - the software ».















Water for employees - «Made in Belarus». Free.



At the site near the center - corner of history. Placed car started in the early periods of work, - to know the origins of young employees. Among other things - and unique tractor for intercontinental missile complex "Celina-2" with 12 osnym chassis and electric transmission. For service chassis is not accepted due to high cost, and "electric" theme for many years stalled. Now leaders say the school is lost, but there are plans to revive it. Subject promising because, despite the fact that the market is not ready.





Components and assemblies are cut, grind out, bent, punched in various workshops, and after they occur on the assembly line. We are in a huge hangar where all the new developments in metal. In the workplace clean and tidy. Recently, there are many important guests, including the "merchants" of Russia. The lens gets a couple of frivolous calendars - the company a lot of youth.













According to Director General Vitaly Vovk, the average salary for MWTP is the highest in the industry and is 8.5 million rubles. Vovk thus makes it clear that it is not a fan of these statistics: they are not always objective. This is the average temperature in the hospital.
- Now we can select workers. On the whole, you know, the car market falls. Large-scale production is difficult to stop, such companies may be experiencing difficulties. We are targeted in their niche. Those professionals who want to make money, we have the opportunity - and the masters and designers.















Go ahead. Models of wood, from which then will produce components for machines producing Italian equipment. Previously it was done by hand. For the manufacture of equipment for cab it took 3-6 months now - 2 weeks.





RAMS-press shop. Laser cutting of metal.



The biggest, experts say, listogib country.



On the board information to get a grasp of "quality objectives for 2014": to develop at least eight new models ensure profitability 12, 8%, to reach the volume of products sold in 1, 9 trillion rubles. The old Soviet tradition - one for all and all for one. Works?

























The workshop of flexible production systems. At the time, it was perhaps the most advanced in the USSR. Now, says the guide, a prototype of the modern plant, how it would like to see. It found a complex expensive equipment for machining. Process automation control system, a person controls. It looks that the plot is not Belarusian solid.









Each machine plate: names enshrined workers and the cost of equipment. $ 698,000, € 535,000 ... This practice, experts say, is used in the West. In some ways, the motivation for employees.











Testing and calibration point: check the settings made here for details.





Quite a regular unit. "It is necessary to someone to catch mice," - joked the director.



The most important place of the plant - the assembly shop.















Initially MWTP produced exclusively military equipment. Now the proportion is 60% for the needs of the armed forces, 40% to the national economy. Up to 90% of production is exported. First of all - to the CIS countries. The lion's share - in Russia. They work well with the markets of China, Turkey, Venezuela, Egypt, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates. There are attempts to go to Latin America, but there is not very.



Mounted on the chassis MZKT and continue to put the anti-aircraft missile systems S-300, multiple launch rocket systems "Smerch" tactical "Iskander" launchers "Topol-M" and more dangerous weapon. Civilian Applications - mixers, tankers, cleaning and trucks, forestry equipment, and so on.









The squares MWTP collected armored "Tiger" production Arzamas machine-building plant. On exponential test drive driver "Tiger" did not take risks - the deepest pit neatly traveled.



The chassis for the transportation of the rig doing commissioned oilmen. The engine is from Caterpillar - such was the demand of the customer. Engines, by the way, on the MZKT not produce as electrical parts, tires. They were purchased from Belarusian and foreign companies.



Specifics of the plant, experts explain, and that is not working at the warehouse - all machines are made to order.
- The technique is very expensive to do it for storage, - said the director. - Each chassis is different from each other, each made for a specific customer. If it is not possible at the moment to pick up the technique, it is left for safekeeping. But it has already been paid, the money arrived.
- The principle of operation is as follows: check with the customer what technology he needed and do it under the car - says the chief engineer Andrew Golovach. - After the exhibition Milex approached the chief of staff, shows that such a thing is necessary, but also to swim. No problem! We have the resources. Who do the new chassis for new types of Russian missile technology. As you know, the details can not be called. In Belarus, on behalf of the president developed an armored car. Make armored corps are not able, in the country do not produce armor. But everything else - please. Now the car break-in at the Special Operations Forces.
A special car "Fox" has already demonstrated at the recent military exhibition in the capital. This equipment is installed on the roof of the panoramic sight of the platform type and run an anti-complex "Hornet».



The chassis for the new Russian intercontinental ballistic missile solid fuel "yars" - a modernized missile complex "Topol-M". The unique thing is, we are told, no one does not do.



Among the exclusive development, which is proud of - 38-meter tankovoz- "caterpillar." And this is - the car more mundane, for the needs of the border guards.



So far, however, the Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant think not so much about new products, but about the future.
- Be able to find reliable information about the sale MZKT? Familiar workers say they have already sold "Russian Technologies" and began to guide me - a letter arrived recently in our edition.
The question we have readdressed CEO:
- You're still the Belarusian company?
- Do you doubt?
Later Vitaliy Vovk added: "Our main task - to find a strategic investor and, therefore, cheap funds for the modernization of that our banks are not able to offer».
It would seem that everything is already decided long ago. Late last year, it was reported that an agreement was reached on the sale of shares MWTP (75% minus 1 share) by Russian JSC "RT-Auto" - unit "Russian Technologies". It required just to hold an honest assessment of company assets at the market price. According to Vitaliy Vovk, the procedure is nearing completion. Soon to appear specific figures. Director General reported that the transaction must be protected and the interests of the company, its employees and the country. This recently spoke and Deputy Prime Minister Semashko. Sale of "silver" is inevitable, but it will have to bargain for zealous, for every ruble.









Source: people.onliner.by