The history of the Lutsk Automobile Plant has never seen such a case. At the end of last week, the entire deputy corps of Volyn, headed by the chairman of the regional council Vasyl Dmytruk, as well as the city mayor Anton Kryvytskyi, visited LuAZ.
The desire of the regional and city leadership and deputies to become better acquainted with the plant and its production was prompted by the fact that the enterprise's problems and ways to solve them were repeatedly raised at sessions and meetings of the city executive committee, and appropriate decisions were made in favor of the interests of LuAZ and its workforce. In difficult times for the plant, a committee to promote the work of LuAZ was created under the city executive committee, which, by the way, is still operating today.
The chairman of the plant's Supervisory Board, Volodymyr Gunchyk, and the general director, Ivan Hrytsanchuk, familiarized the guests with the automobile production process and the working conditions of the plant's workers.
The deputies expressed their admiration while inspecting the new main conveyor line, which meets all the requirements of modern production.
They lingered for a long time near the samples of new equipment - LuAZ automobiles, whose mass production is planned to begin next year.
Volodymyr Gunchyk told the deputies what would be done at the plant within the framework of LuAZ's expanded investment program, which was approved on January 18, 2005 by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and will be in effect until 2008. It provides for the reconstruction of existing production capacities and the commissioning of new ones. In particular, it is planned to build a welding line, a painting complex with a capacity of 60,000 bodies and cabs per year, and an assembly complex for passenger cars, trucks and buses. Thus, after the implementation of the investment program, the Lutsk Automobile Plant will increase its capacity for bus production to 4,000 units per year, trucks - to 7,000, and passenger cars - to 53,000.
The implementation of the investment program also has a social character, which will make it possible to create new jobs, increase wages and budget payments.
The chairman of the regional council, Vasyl Dmytruk, in turn, assured the plant's management that enterprises and institutions of the region would take the most active part in the implementation of LuAZ's investment program and would contribute in every way to the investment climate in Volyn.
The city mayor Anton Kryvytskyi stated that LuAZ has long become a calling card not only of Lutsk but of all Volyn.
- There are not so many cities in Ukraine today that can boast of having an automobile plant. Therefore, we must be proud of this and help LuAZ multiply its labor achievements, - emphasized the city mayor.
Yaroslav Andrushko, head of the press center of OJSC "LuAZ"