- CEO
- Andrey Valeryevich Gartung
- Full Time Employees
- 16,910
- Sector
- Producer manufacturing
- Industry
- Auto parts: OEM
- Address
- 12, Gorelova Street Chelyabinsk CY Russian Federation 454012
- IPO Date
- Nov 18, 2005
- Business
- Chelyabinsk Forge-and-Press Plant, Public Joint Stock Company (CHKZ.ME) operates as a leading Russian forging and stamping enterprise, specializing in the production of forgings, stampings, machined parts, wheels, and special-purpose vehicles for automotive, railway, agricultural, oil and gas, power engineering, mining, and aerospace sectors. The company manufactures hot-die forgings and machined parts; cold sheet-metal stampings; flanges and finished pipeline fittings; wheels for cars, trucks, trolleybuses, trailers, semi-trailers, heavy haulers, and road construction machinery; stamped body parts including fenders, roofs, doors, and panels for VAZ, Moskvich, and Ural trucks; side rails for Ural and ZiL trucks; forgings and stampings for pipeline armature, special-purpose equipment, vehicles, and railway transport; as well as trailers, semi-trailers, dumpers, short loggers, timber trucks, pipe trucks, bolsters, and heavy-duty vehicles on URAL, KAMAZ, and IVECO chassis. Founded in 1942 following the evacuation of Moscow's Stalin Automobile Plant during World War II, the company is headquartered at 12 Gorelova Street, Chelyabinsk, Russia, and primarily serves markets in Russia, former USSR republics, Europe, Africa, and Asia, with approximately 3,000 employees and subsidiaries including Garmoniya OOO and Uraldormash ZAO. In recent developments, the company signed an export contract in December for supplying a complete forging line to Mexico, reinforcing its international presence; approved dividends of RUB720 per ordinary share for 2024; and completed the sale of a 50% stake in Khartung Uils OOO to an undisclosed buyer in 2021, while maintaining ISO/TS 16949 certification as Russia's first forging firm to achieve it and continuing production diversification amid sanctions designations by the U.S. Treasury in 2024 for ties to special-purpose vehicle manufacturing.