Uzbek automakers reported on past and future

13 August 2018

JSC "Uzavtosanoat" held a session of the press club

At the meeting in late July session of the recently created International Press club (IPC) of Uzbekistan, was reported about activity of JSC "Uzavtosanoat", including the results achieved and future plans for short term and long term future. The session was attended by the heads and employees of JSC "Uzavtosanoat", experts, representatives of large industrial enterprises of the system, the dealership leaders, and was attended by national and foreign media.

The leadership of AK "Uzavtosanoat" reported the public about the progress and about the future

The President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoev 26 June 2018 provided guidance to ensure this year's production and export performance in the automotive industry and the development prospects of the sphere. They include long-term objectives of this Trali, including objectives to reduce the cost of production of the automotive industry, raising the level of localization to reduce import volume.
Sootvetstvenno at the session of IPC was discussed positive and negative aspects of deregulation in the auto industry, the effect of increasing the level of localization of components production on the cost of the car, the expansion of exports of manufactured cars, as well as the current activities of the AK.
According to statements of the JSC "Uzavtosanoat" (the main co-owner of JV GM Uzbekistan) today, they are dealing with all these problems and also to improve the trading system. At the system level will be changed based on export policy and the improvement of governance and financial sustainability of enterprises. It should be noted that such a "radical" approach has led, for example, in the Russian market sales are on the decline in April and may of cars the export of Uzbek brand Ravon and full stop of sales in June and July.

Popular crossover Opel Mokka will return to Russia as Ravon Trax

However, what about the Russian market the leadership of the Russian market so Russia finally has come the long-promised crossover of the brand Ravon, what turned out to be the restyled Chevrolet Trax (single-platform sibling of the popular Opel Mokka), by the way, already collected at the facilities of Kazakhstan company "Asia Auto", but only for the local market. On the Uzbek market model will be released as the Chevrolet Trax in September of this year (SKD-Assembly at the plant in Tashkent with a 140-horsepower 1.8-liter motor gearbox or automatic transmission and front-wheel or all-wheel drive). In Russia, the crossover will go under the name Ravon, and in the longer term it is not excluded the involvement of his Assembly now abandoned GM plant in Shushary near St. Petersburg.

Universal-compact MPV Chevrolet Orlando expelled from the program GM Uzbekistan in the first quarter of this year

In addition, JSC "Uzavtosanoat" made at home optimization of the model range of Chevrolet brand in Uzbekistan: for example, in the first quarter of this year with production filmed a compact MPV Orlando (assembled from SKD kits in Khorezm plant of GM Uzbekistan in 2014), and in July – ancient (produced in Uzbekistan since August 2001) microvan Matiz, which some have called the urban hatchback is well-known in Russian cities, primarily as a pizza guy. In the model lineup it will replace the hatchback Spark.

Over and the life cycle urban mini compact MPV Chevrolet Matiz (sold in Russia under the brand Daewoo)

Until the end of 2018 at the plant in Khorezm will stop and the SKD-Assembly of the crossover Captiva.

Last until the end of 2018 from the line of GM Uzbekistan will leave a mid-size crossover Chevrolet Captiva 

Today Uzbekistan acts the leading automotive country in the Central Asian region and manufactures a wide range of cars and commercial vehicles. In addition, the Uzbek automobile enterprises operate not only in the production of cars, buses, trucks and their components, but also the production of necessary consumer goods for the inhabitants of the country. Today, in Uzbekistan, where more than 32 million population there is an urgent need for further development of automobile market and vehicle production.

background:
Joint stock Company "Uzavtosanoat" (UzAvtoSanoat) was established on 14 Mar 1994. Today, the company includes 85 large and medium-sized enterprises manufacturing passenger cars, trucks and buses, as well as components and spare parts, including joint ventures with foreign capital from countries such as USA, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, South Korea, Turkey and so on.
Today in JSC "Uzavtosanoat" has more than 26 000 employees. Of these, over 5,000 were able to improve their skills at leading industrial enterprises in the world..