29 Mar 2023 18:36

Former Iveco JV to continue production of trucks with China's JAC after departure of Italian partners

MOSCOW. March 29 (Interfax) - Chinese automaker JAC, which has provided its technologies to relaunch some auto plants abandoned by foreign car manufacturers in Russia, plan to partner with another project in the industry - a former joint venture with Italy's Iveco with production in Miass in the Chelyabinsk Region.

The relevant statement was published on the website of AMT N.V., formerly the Iveco-AMT JV. After Iveco left Russia, the JV was consolidated by August 2022 by Russian co-owner Vladimir (80%) and Andrey (20%) Novikov's AMT LLC.

On its website, the Russian company announced that "thanks to cooperation with JAC Motors, as well as a number of other manufacturers of automotive components, the company is developing and in the near future will introduce to the market a new line of vehicles."

In contrast to the traditional all-wheel-drive range, which was produced by the company earlier, the new lineup will include both all-wheel-drive and two-drive commercial vehicles with GVW from 12 to 90 tonnes, 4x2, 4x4, 6x2, 6x4, 6x6, 8x4, 8x8, 10x10 wheel arrangements and a basic lineup of efficient engines rated from 480 to 550 hp.

AMT N.V. maintains its traditional vector - production of special trucks designed for various oil and gas, forestry, construction, and mining technologies. In addition, it supplements its production with non all-wheel-drive vehicles for long-distance transportation and urban needs, taking into account the needs of customers, whether they are large international companies or private individuals," the automaker said.

The AMT N.V. production complex includes workshops for frame assembly and production of superstructures, welding, assembling and painting of truck cabs, vehicle assembly and testing facilities. The design capacity of the company is 5,000 vehicles per year, and the current capacity is 3,500 vehicles and 1,500 superstructures.

Data from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities shows that JAC is not participating in the project as a co-owner. At the same time, the former JV with Iveco is not the first in the Russian automotive industry to be relaunched after the start of last year's crisis with the help of its technologies. New Sollers brand LCVs are being produced at the Sollers plant in Tatarstan vacated by Ford, while the former Renault plant in Moscow is producing Moskvich cars using JAC technologies.