The Yaroslavl engine plant, operated by the publicly traded Avtodizel company, is one of the leading Russian production facilities in the manufacture of multipurpose diesel engines, clutches, gearboxes, spare parts and stationary Yaroslavl plant engines. Avtodizel is subsidiary of the Power Units Division, which in turn is part of the managing company Gaz Group. The Avtodizel Yaroslavl engine plant is a diversified facility that manages all necessary production stages from blanking operations to the assembly of finished products. It also has an engineering and design centre with advanced research and testing facilities.
The facility currently produces:
- two families of four-stroke, 6-, 8- and 12- cylinder, V-shaped multipurpose engines, with power ranging from 150 to 800 horsepower, including about 60 basic models and more than 250 customisable modifications. The basic models of the 6- and 8-cylinder engines for automobiles meet Euro 2 and Euro 3 emission standards;
- 12 models of gear boxes;
- two types of clutches;
- five models of electrical generators and power units to drive pumps, compressors and drilling machinery with capacities ranging between 60 and 475 kilowatts;
- more than 1,200 types of original spare parts for all engine models and power units;
- heavy, YMZ-650 straight engines with capacities between 362 and 412 horsepower the meet Euro 3 standards (since late 2007).
Major Russian consumers of the Yaroslavl facility's diesel engines and power units include AZ-Ural (in Miass), Rostselmash Harvester Combine Plant (Rostov-on-Don), the Krasnoyarsk Harvester Combine Plant (Krasnoyarsk), Chelyabinsk Road Construction Machines (Chelyabinsk), the Bryansky Arsenal (Bryansk), Promtraktor (Cheboksary) and Likinsky Avtobus (Likino). International consumers include Belarusian companies such as the Minsk Automobile Plant, Gomselmash (Gomel) and the Minsk Tow Truck Wheel Plant (Minsk), as well as Ukrainian companies such as AvtoKraz (Kremenchug) and the Kharkov Tractor Plant (Kharkov).
The Avtodizel Yaroslavl engine plant is currently implementing an investment project to build facilities to manufacture a new generation Russian YMZ-530 engines certified to Euro 4 standards, which will have the potential to be upgraded to meet Euro 5 and Euro 6 standards.
AvtoDizel worked with the Austrian automotive consulting firm AVL at the initial stages of the YMZ-530 design. YMZ-530 engines are built with components from leading international and Russian producers, and surpass foreign and Russian analogues in areas such as power and torque while using less fuel than most competitors. YMZ-530 engines are certified according to Euro 3 and Euro 4 standards, and their design would allow them to be upgraded to meet Euro 5 and Euro 6 standards without substantial extra cost.
Commercial production is due to start in July 2011.