New Belarusian MMZ diesel engine for Russian Intrall

Minsk Motor Plant (MMZ trademark) is busy developing a new diesel engine modification for the Russian consortium Intrall, representatives of the Belarusian company told BelTA.

According to the source, potential Russian partners have approached the Belarusian company with a request to develop a four-cylinder 200-220hp diesel engine for them.

The Belarusian company is expected to ship the first sample of a 186hp diesel engine for an armored off-road vehicle to the customer in December 2014.

The pilot samples of the engine and the vehicle will have to pass the full series of validation tests. “If after a full series of tests our engine suits the customer, then the decision on the batch production of this engine for Intrall will be made in 2015,” said representatives of Minsk Motor Plant.

The agreement to develop the engine modification was reached during the visit of Intrall’s President Anatoly Leirikh and Engineering Director Stanislav Shelestov the previous week.

Intrall Consortium was established by private Russian investors in 2013 with a view to buying foreign intellectual assets relevant for the design and manufacturing of commercial vehicles. Creating vehicles for special purposes is one of the types of business the consortium does. The consortium has already created a family of vehicles with the full weight as large as 6, 8, and 12 tonnes. MMZ engines will be used for vehicles like that.

The public joint-stock company Managing Company of the Holding Company Minsk Motor Plant is a leading manufacturer of modern diesel engines in the CIS and is the top producer of engines for tractors and harvesters in terms of output. In 2013 the company sold over 90,000 engines, with export at about $150 million. In cost terms export accounted for about half of the sales. The company sells most of the output in Russia.