KamAZ may switch to a four-day schedule due to “weak prospects” of the market. The day before, Putin said that the company “stands firmly on its feet”

KamAZ is considering the idea of ​​reducing its production plan for 2026 and switching to a four-day work week from June 1 due to a decline in sales of heavy trucks, RBC writes, citing the company’s press service.

KamAZ reported that it was being forced to consider such measures

“weak prospects for market growth and pressure from the remnants of imported equipment from Chinese manufacturers.”

While the introduction of a four-day working week is in question, everything will depend on the indicators for April-May, sources at the plant told RBC. They emphasized that there is “no talk at all” about a three-day working week. The Mash telegram channel previously wrote about the alleged existence of such plans.

The day before, Vladimir Putin said that KamAZ,

“despite the known difficulties that arise for reasons known to us, it still stands firmly on its feet, develops and participates in large modern projects.”

• According to Russian accounting standards for 2025, KamAZ increased its loss 11 times, to 37 billion rubles. The sales loss amounted to 22.9 billion rubles against a profit of 909 million rubles for 2024.

• At the end of 2025, KamAZ CEO Sergei Kogogin said that he expected truck sales to decline by about 20%. The market was experiencing a deep crisis due to a high key rate, inflation, market glut in 2023 and overstocked warehouses in 2024, Kogogin noted.