Kamaz general director Sergei Kogogin speaks to Russia 2010 forum

The JSC Kamaz general director Sergei Kogogin has today spoken to the Russia 2010 international business event in Moscow.

The Kamaz CEO, who is the chairman of the Russian Auto Manufacturers Association non-profit organisation and a board member at other auto manufacturers, took part in the session “Russian Auto Industry: Borrowing Foreign Experience”. He told about the Russian auto industry’s integration with the global auto industry, defining it as an objective process, conditioned by the tasks the national economy as a whole faces. Comprehensive modernisation based on innovations, manufacturing high-technology products with high added value is to make it competitive on the global market. The task is complex and requires substantial investment. It can only be solved through involving the government authorities.

Sergei Kogogin focused on the Kamaz experience in implementing its anti-crisis programme, the practice of partner relations with leading global manufacturers of autos and components, basic investment projects and diversifying the company’s business. He noted that Kamaz had set itself a task to become a global player. To do that, the company will have in the near decade to launch a conceptually new truck portfolio and achieve total adaptability on the market.

This is included in the JSC Kamaz’s strategic development programme until 2013 with the description of priority goals until 2018, adopted in December 2009.

Sergei Kogogin presented the key provisions of a programme of Russia’s auto industry development until 2020 that is being devised, reports the company on the official website.