The agreement on organizing the assembly was signed in June at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, and late last week the GAZ press service announced the start of the assembly of the GAZelle Next in Argun. The new assembly line added 100 jobs to the Chechenavto plant.
“The line we have installed is universal, it can be used to assemble various modifications of cars for freight and passenger transport, as well as school buses, ambulances, housing equipment and municipal services,” says Andrey Sofonov, Managing Director of GAZ .
Previously, GAZ had an active presence in the region, but then everything was limited to the supply of equipment – commercial models and buses. After the launch of the production of GAZelles in Chechenavto, the leadership of the republic announced the imminent creation of a car cluster and the expansion of the model range – it is planned to assemble buses locally and superstructures from the social sphere at the GAZ- to install chassis .
Recall that until recently Chechenavto worked only with AVTOVAZ – in June, for example, Grant was restarted there in an anti-crisis version.