Ganja Auto Plant

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Ganja Auto Plant

Company type	Public Company
Industry	Automotive
Predecessor	KiAZ (Kirovabad Automobile Factory)
Founded	1986
Headquarters	Ganja , Azerbaijan
Area served	Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey
Products	Automobiles, Trucks, Mobile Cranes, Utility Trucks, Buses, Tractors, Combine harvesters, Agricultural machinery
Total assets	USD 40,000,000 dollar
Number of employees	500
Subsidiaries	ATUB Turkey
Website	http://ganjaauto.az/

Ganja Auto Plant (Azerbaijani: Gəncə Avtomobil Zavodu) is an auto assembly plant situated in the Ganja city in Azerbaijan. The factory was founded in 1986 as KiAZ (Kirovabad Automobile Plant) for a production of run of 30,000 "GAZelle" vans according to the project brief. The commissioning was intended to end in 1989 but following a decision of Council of Ministers of the former USSR the construction of the factory was interrupted, and the technological project was given to the Bryansk Automobile Plant. The 256 hectares (633 acres) of overall territory, including the 50 hectares (120 acres) of the factory footprint itself, stayed without utilization for 15 years.

Construction of an automobile plant was considered by the government after the end of the Soviet Union when Azerbaijan had obtained its independence. Since 1994 the giant and famous automobile companies of Italy, Korea, Japan, France and Germany showed interest in the facility, but negotiations held with them ended without a deal.

In December 2004, the Ganja automobile plant started manufacturing, and the first car built at the factory was sold. In 2008, the plant produced about 600 cars and tractors.^[1]