Production activity at the Zaporozhye Automobile Plant (AvtoZAZ) is a step away from conservation due to lack of orders. This was reported on Thursday, February 8, the press service of the corporation "UkrAvto", which includes the plant. "Now ZAZ is trying to look for any orders - to produce non-core products, is negotiating the assembly of tractors of the Korean company LS. All these actions are aimed at preserving the enterprise and the collective, preserving the industrial potential of the Zaporozhye region and Ukraine. But if in the near future the situation does not change, the only way out will be the conservation of production, "- quotes" Gromadskoye TV ". In "UkrAvto" note that such a decision could lead to "the termination of the existence in Ukraine of the automotive industry as such". The corporation acknowledged that the company is working with large losses, and debt on loans as of January of this year exceeded the bar in $ 130 million. The plant in 2017th released from the conveyor only 1 thousand. 674 vehicles with a design capacity of 150 thousand. machines per year. More than 1,3 thousand.

employees are forced to work part-time. According to the publication, in Ukraine in 2008, 623 thousand new cars were sold, of which 258 thousand were produced at ZAZ. For the 2017th market was only 80 thousand. car, of which the legendary Zaporozhye auto giant was able to sell 1673 new cars. ZAZ - the only enterprise in the country with a full cycle of production of cars. From the 1960's to the 1990's, the plant produced cars brand Zaporozhets, later - cars brands Chance, Lanos, Sens and Vida.