31 May 2004 09:51
Russian plant starts assembling US off-road vehicles
Kaliningrad, 31 May: An assembly line producing US Hammer off-road vehicles has today started work at the Avtotor
plant in Kaliningrad.
An agreement on assembling the off-road vehicles in Kaliningrad was signed with General Motors in August 2003. The
first Kaliningrad-made Hammer was displayed at the Moscow auto show a month later.
Since then, the car manufacturers have done a lot of work: staff have been taken on and trained and the production
facilities have been set up. An assembly plant equipped with state-of-the-art technology has been set up to produce the
popular off-road vehicle in the Kaliningrad suburb of Aleksandr Kosmodemyanskiy.
Avtotor's management said that almost 700 vehicles will be produced at the plant by October.
[ITAR-TASS news agency] |
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