Minsk Tractor Works

Minsk Tractor Factory
Native name	Мінскі трактарны завод
Company type	Public
Industry	Agricultural machinery
Founded	1946
Headquarters	Minsk, Belarus
Products	Tractors
Revenue	2,203,436,000 Belarusian ruble (2021)
Operating income	Br 184,000,000 (2017)
Net income	48,196,000 Belarusian ruble (2021)
Total assets	2,541,779,000 Belarusian ruble (2021)
Number of employees	15,377 (2021)
Website	www.belarus-tractor.com/en/

Minsk Tractor Works (Belarusian: Мінскі трактарны завод, romanized: Minski traktarny zavod; Russian: Минский тракторный завод; MTZ) is a Belarusian agricultural machinery manufacturer with headquarters in Minsk, Belarus. Minsk Tractor Works is one of the main tractor factories in the country. It is a part of the Minsk Tractor Works Industrial Association. In addition to the main plant in Minsk, the association includes a number of plants that produce parts and attachable tools for tractors and other vehicles produced by MTZ.

History

MTZ-2 (1954-1958) tractor near Minsk Tractor Works. Minsk, Belarus.

MTZ-5 (1957-1972)

MTZ-52 (1962-1985)

MTZ-80 (since 1974)

Main assembly line

The plant was established on 29 May 1946. The first manufactured tractor was caterpillar tractor KD-25 [ru] "Kirovets".^[2] The production of MTZ-model tractors, the MTZ-1 and MTZ-2 models, started on October 14, 1953. (Prototypes were manufactured in 1949.)^[2]

As of 2005, it had nearly 20,000 workers. The plant produces over 62 models of vehicles. Its main civil production has been four-wheeled tractors of model "MTZ", known as Belarus. By 1995 the plant had manufactured 3,000,000 tractors. In 1999, it produced 58% of all tractors manufactured in the CIS. In 2017, its share in the production of wheel tractors in CIS countries was 87%.^[1]

MTZ tractors were exported to Western Europe, too.

In 2013, the plant tractors were certified in the US by the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) and in Canada by Environment Canada and received full approval for their import and distribution in both countries. Since 2010, distribution of Belarus tractors in the US and Canada is carried on through a local distributor, MTZ Equipment Ltd.^[3]

In 2015, MTZ produced 2,424 tractors, an increase of 45% compared to the previous year (1,648 tractors).^[4]

In 2017, 92.1% tractors of 31,011 produced were exported. Eight countries imported more than 500 "Belarus" tractors: Russia (11,135), Pakistan (4,845), Ukraine (4,028), Kazakhstan (2,106), Azerbaijan (1,637), Hungary (871), Romania (812), Lithuania (736).^[1]

In 2020, after the Presidential elections, police brutality, and the mass torture of protesters, the workers of MTZ joined the national strike and opposition.^[5]^[6]

In 2022, Canada and Ukraine imposed sanctions on MTZ.^[7]

Products

Tractors

Belarus-80.1; Belarus-82.1; Belarus-90; Belarus-92; Belarus-320; Belarus-310; Belarus-321; Belarus-422; Belarus-510; Belarus, 512; Belarus-520; Belarus-522; Belarus-572; Belarus-622; Belarus-820; Belarus-826; Belarus-892; Belarus-920; Belarus-922.3; Belarus-923.3; Belarus-1021; Belarus-Belarus-1025.2 1220.3; Belarus-1221.2; Belarus-1523; Belarus-2022.3; Belarus-3022DTS.1; Belarus-3522.; Belarus-5022

Special tractors

Belarus-80X; Belarus-100X; Belarus-920R; Belarus-921.3; BELARUS-921.4-10 / 91.

Caterpillar tractors

From November 1950 to August 1951 the plant manufactured the caterpillar tractor KD-25 [ru] "Kirovets".^[2]

Also for some time the plant manufactured skidders.^[2]

Associated plants

MTZ plant
Сморгоньский агрегатный завод, Smarhon mechanical unit plant
Бобруйский завод тракторных деталей и агрегатов, Babruysk tractor part and mechanical unit plant
Витебский завод тракторных запчастей, Vitsebsk tractor part plant
Минский завод специнструмента и технологической оснастки, Minsk instrument and auxiliaries plant
Минский завод шестерён, Minsk gear plant
Лепельский электромеханический завод, Lepel electromechanical plant
Смолевичский завод шестерён, Smalyavichy gear plant
Гомельский завод «Гидропривод», Gomel hydraulic drive plant
Завод гидроаппаратуры в г. Хойники, Khoyniki hydraulic drive plant
Наровлянский завод гидроаппаратуры, Narowlya hydraulic drive plant
Мозырский машиностроительный завод, Mazyr machine-building plant
Saint Petersburg^[8]

Joint assembly production of MTZ tractors began in 2013 in Cambodia, at MTZ's first assembly plant in the ASEAN region. Tractors are now exported to all ASEAN countries. ^[9]

Sport, media, and culture

Until 2010 Minsk Tractor Works was a sponsor of a Belarusian Premier League football team MTZ-RIPO Minsk. Games were played at Traktor stadium, which is located near the plant.

The Palace of Culture of the plant hosts the ballroom Dance Club Mara.^[10]