The decision was made due to the lack of parts subject to sanctions, and the ban on the import of equipment from Russia.
Russia’s Ural Motorcycles plant will transfer production of motorcycles under the Ural brand in the Kazakh city of Petropavlovsk to the site of the Kaztekhmash machine-building plant. This was stated by the Minister of Industry and Infrastructure Development of Kazakhstan Kairbek Uskenbayev, Interfax reports on Tuesday, April 26.
“The Ural plant is in talks with Kaztekhmash, they signed a lease agreement for the premises. We will welcome (Russian production-ed.), And we have many such companies,” Uskenbaev said in journalists on the government sideline.
Earlier, Ilya Khait, CEO of Ural Motorcycles, announced on the company’s official YouTube channel that the company is moving its production to Kazakhstan.
The decision was made due to the lack of parts subject to sanctions, and the ban on the import of equipment from Russia. At the same time, the company’s plant in the city of Irbit, Sverdlovsk Region, will continue to work and produce frames and body elements for motorcycles.
Ural Motorcycles is the only one in the world that makes heavy off-road motorcycles with a sidecar, exporting equipment to the USA, EU, Canada, Australia and Japan.
Recall that Russia began to hide economic data and the impact of sanctions. The country’s authorities have stopped publishing information about public debt, imports and exports, and information on oil production.
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Source: korrespondent
