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ZAZ
ZAZ or Zaporizhzhia Automobile Building Plant (Ukrainian: ЗАЗ, Запорізький автомобілебудівний завод, romanized: Zaporiz'kyi avtomobilebudivnyi zavod or Запорізький автозавод, Zaporiz'kyi avtozavod) is Ukraine's main automobile manufacturer based in the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia. ZAZ manufactures cars, buses and trucks. ZAZ is also often known by the public as its former parent company, AvtoZAZ.
The date of the plant's foundation is considered to be 1863. In 1908, the company was founded, which later became the Melitopol Motor Plant (MeMZ). In 1923, the former Abram Koop plant was renamed "Communar". In 1960, the Melitopol Motor Plant began supplying its engines to the Zaporizhzhia Automobile Plant. Since 1975, MeMZ has been a part of the production association "AvtoZAZ". Today, it is one of the structural elements of PJSC "ZAZ". In 1961, the plant was renamed to "Zaporizhzhia Automobile Plant". The plant was engaged in the production of a single car, ZAZ-965, which went down in history as a "humpbacked Zaporozhets".
On April 15, 1998, JV "AvtoZAZ-DEU" (CJSC "ZAZ", from January 2003) was established, as a closed joint-stock company on the production base of JSC "Avtozaz". The authorized capital was formed at the expense of the founders' contributions: from OJSC Avtozaz - property in the amount equivalent to $150; from Daewoo Motors - $150 million. In addition to the main enterprise in Zaporizhzhia, the joint venture included the Melitopol Motor Plant (Fracturing Plant AvtoZAZ-Motor), the Black Sea Plant of Automobile Units (Fracturing Plant ChZAA), and the Pologi Plant Iskra (Fracturing Plant Iskra) as self-supporting enterprises.
Following the bankruptcy of Daewoo Motors in 2001, UKRAVTO Group bought AvtoZAZ in 2002. All production facilities of AvtoZAZ (primarily MeMZ and the Black Sea Motor Plant) were transformed into ZAZ. Furthermore, the company adopted a new logo. In 2003, the Swiss company Hirsch & CIE bought Daewoo's stake (50%) in the joint venture.
PJSC "ZAZ" is currently Ukraine's only company with a full passenger car production cycle, including stamping, welding, painting, body equipment, and car assembly. The plant has created and continually improves a qualitatively new, modern, high-tech production, meeting the requirements of the international standard ISO 9001, version 2000.[citation needed]
The first three symbols of the VIN code of Zaporizhzhia-made cars are Y6D.[citation needed]
The company that became ZAZ developed out of four businesses founded by German entrepreneur Abram J. Koop to manufacture agricultural machinery. In 1863, local Mennonite industrialist Abram J. Koop built a factory for the production of iron parts for windmills, reapers, threshers, and plows. Later, it was nationalized and restarted as the state-operated Kommunar factory, which continued to produce twenty-four types of machines.. Its first combine harvesters appeared in 1929, with 129,724 being built by 1952 (excluding the war years). In 1930, Kommunar began producing the first Soviet harvester, Kommunar, based on the American Holt Caterpillar horse-drawn harvester. The production of the harvester allowed the Soviet Union to cease importing harvesters from abroad.[citation needed]
In 1956, the company, then known as MZMA, launched mass production of the Moskvitch 402, one of the Soviet Union's most publicly accessible cars. Following the growing trend of small cars (then accounting for between 25% and 40% of all European car sales), the minister in charge of Minavtroprom (the Soviet automotive ministry) selected the new Fiat 600 as the model to follow. The first prototype, the MZMA 444, appeared in October 1957. It was powered by a flat twin-cylinder MD-65 engine, provided by the Irbit Motorcycle Plant, which was "totally unsuited", as it produced only 17.5 hp (13.0 kW; 17.7 PS) and lasted only 30,000 km (19,000 mi) between major overhauls. As a result, a search for another engine began, and the success of the VW Type 1's boxer led to a preference for an air-cooled engine, which NAMI (the National Automobile Institute) had on the drawing board. Minavtroprom, however, preferred a 23 hp (17 kW; 23 PS) 746 cc (45.5 cu in) V4 engine, the NAMI-G, which had the additional advantage of being developed for the LuAZ-967.
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ZAZ
ZAZ or Zaporizhzhia Automobile Building Plant (Ukrainian: ЗАЗ, Запорізький автомобілебудівний завод, romanized: Zaporiz'kyi avtomobilebudivnyi zavod or Запорізький автозавод, Zaporiz'kyi avtozavod) is Ukraine's main automobile manufacturer based in the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia. ZAZ manufactures cars, buses and trucks. ZAZ is also often known by the public as its former parent company, AvtoZAZ.
The date of the plant's foundation is considered to be 1863. In 1908, the company was founded, which later became the Melitopol Motor Plant (MeMZ). In 1923, the former Abram Koop plant was renamed "Communar". In 1960, the Melitopol Motor Plant began supplying its engines to the Zaporizhzhia Automobile Plant. Since 1975, MeMZ has been a part of the production association "AvtoZAZ". Today, it is one of the structural elements of PJSC "ZAZ". In 1961, the plant was renamed to "Zaporizhzhia Automobile Plant". The plant was engaged in the production of a single car, ZAZ-965, which went down in history as a "humpbacked Zaporozhets".
On April 15, 1998, JV "AvtoZAZ-DEU" (CJSC "ZAZ", from January 2003) was established, as a closed joint-stock company on the production base of JSC "Avtozaz". The authorized capital was formed at the expense of the founders' contributions: from OJSC Avtozaz - property in the amount equivalent to $150; from Daewoo Motors - $150 million. In addition to the main enterprise in Zaporizhzhia, the joint venture included the Melitopol Motor Plant (Fracturing Plant AvtoZAZ-Motor), the Black Sea Plant of Automobile Units (Fracturing Plant ChZAA), and the Pologi Plant Iskra (Fracturing Plant Iskra) as self-supporting enterprises.
Following the bankruptcy of Daewoo Motors in 2001, UKRAVTO Group bought AvtoZAZ in 2002. All production facilities of AvtoZAZ (primarily MeMZ and the Black Sea Motor Plant) were transformed into ZAZ. Furthermore, the company adopted a new logo. In 2003, the Swiss company Hirsch & CIE bought Daewoo's stake (50%) in the joint venture.
PJSC "ZAZ" is currently Ukraine's only company with a full passenger car production cycle, including stamping, welding, painting, body equipment, and car assembly. The plant has created and continually improves a qualitatively new, modern, high-tech production, meeting the requirements of the international standard ISO 9001, version 2000.[citation needed]
The first three symbols of the VIN code of Zaporizhzhia-made cars are Y6D.[citation needed]
The company that became ZAZ developed out of four businesses founded by German entrepreneur Abram J. Koop to manufacture agricultural machinery. In 1863, local Mennonite industrialist Abram J. Koop built a factory for the production of iron parts for windmills, reapers, threshers, and plows. Later, it was nationalized and restarted as the state-operated Kommunar factory, which continued to produce twenty-four types of machines.. Its first combine harvesters appeared in 1929, with 129,724 being built by 1952 (excluding the war years). In 1930, Kommunar began producing the first Soviet harvester, Kommunar, based on the American Holt Caterpillar horse-drawn harvester. The production of the harvester allowed the Soviet Union to cease importing harvesters from abroad.[citation needed]
In 1956, the company, then known as MZMA, launched mass production of the Moskvitch 402, one of the Soviet Union's most publicly accessible cars. Following the growing trend of small cars (then accounting for between 25% and 40% of all European car sales), the minister in charge of Minavtroprom (the Soviet automotive ministry) selected the new Fiat 600 as the model to follow. The first prototype, the MZMA 444, appeared in October 1957. It was powered by a flat twin-cylinder MD-65 engine, provided by the Irbit Motorcycle Plant, which was "totally unsuited", as it produced only 17.5 hp (13.0 kW; 17.7 PS) and lasted only 30,000 km (19,000 mi) between major overhauls. As a result, a search for another engine began, and the success of the VW Type 1's boxer led to a preference for an air-cooled engine, which NAMI (the National Automobile Institute) had on the drawing board. Minavtroprom, however, preferred a 23 hp (17 kW; 23 PS) 746 cc (45.5 cu in) V4 engine, the NAMI-G, which had the additional advantage of being developed for the LuAZ-967.