Terex Corp. and GAZ Group this week entered into an agreement to form a joint venture company for the manufacture of construction and roadbuilding equipment in Russia. Under the agreement, the joint venture will manufacture, market and sell certain Terex and all GAZ Group construction and roadbuilding products in Russia, as well as distribute construction and roadbuilding products manufactured by Terex and exported into Russia. The joint venture will also sell certain construction and roadbuilding products of GAZ Group for export.

GAZ Group will provide manufacturing facilities and human resources, as well as access to the GAZ Group’s Construction Equipment Division dealer network. The joint venture arrangement will allow access to relevant technology and know-how that will help to upgrade the current product portfolio of the GAZ Group Construction Equipment division. The joint venture is expected to be operational in early 2012.

“I welcome this joint venture between GAZ Group and Terex, which expands and upgrades the road construction equipment product line offered to Russian and international customers and puts both companies in a strong position to take advantage of Russia's booming infrastructure building market,” said Oleg Deripaska, CEO of Basic Element, majority owner of GAZ Group.

Ron DeFeo, Terex Corp. chairman and CEO, said, “From our viewpoint, the opportunity for Terex to participate in helping to build vital infrastructure in Russia and other markets, as we better serve the equipment needs of both existing and new customers is truly exciting. The combined product offerings, expanded geographic reach and extensive manufacturing capacity in the Russian Federation offer considerable opportunity for both our companies.”

The joint venture will announce the specific Terex-designed products that will be initially introduced and produced in the near future as decisions are finalized. Production is planned for GAZ Group’s Tvex Excavator, Bryansk Arsenal, Chelyabinsk construction and road machines, and Zavolzhsky crawler vehicle plants.

“This new venture is truly a winning combination,” said Steve Filipov, president of Terex Developing Markets. “It will help Terex to solidify our goal in becoming the most customer-responsive company to meet local infrastructure building needs. In addition, it will bring the distribution partners together from both GAZ Group and Terex to deliver the best product line, quality, support, and service available in the Russian market, not to mention our long-term objective to increase and diversify our revenues in developing markets.”

Terex Corp., Westport, Conn., is a diversified global manufacturer operating in four business segments: Aerial Work Platforms, Construction, Cranes, and Materials Processing. Terex manufactures a broad range of equipment for use in various industries, including the construction, infrastructure, quarrying, mining, shipping, transportation, refining, energy and utility industries.

Headquartered in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, GAZ Group is the largest manufacturer of commercial vehicles in Russia. It includes 18 plants in 10 regions of Russia, and a distribution and service network. It produces light and medium-duty commercial vehicles, heavy-duty trucks, buses, cars, construction and road-building equipment, powertrain and automotive components. The controlling shareholder of the company is Russian Machines Corp., part of Oleg Deripaska’s Basic Element. For more information on GAZ Group, visit www.gazgroup.ru.