Zamyad Company was able to produce more than 10,000 cars in the first 100 days of the current fiscal year (started March 21), setting a record in the past 10 years.
The company was able to sell 10,722 types of light products, including 9,022 Zamyad pickup trucks, 22 types of Zamyad vans (gasoline, dual-fuel and diesel), 150 Padra vans, 1,483 Padra Plus vans and 67 Karoon vans.
“Zamyad has broken the 10-year production record. At the same time, the company’s output also registered a 40% increase, compared with the corresponding period of last year, which is a rare achievement for the company,” Mohsen Mortazavi, CEO of Zamyad, was quoted as saying by the news portal of SAIPA.
“The production record of Zamyad was achieved in the first quarter of the fiscal 2022-23 [March 21-June 21] at a time when the automotive industry is struggling to solve the problems of supplying raw materials and other issues related to production.”
The unprecedented growth in Zamyad is also noticeable in other areas of the company. Recently, Zamyad’s pickup truck managed to lose 100 negative points in terms of quality. The company also aims to achieve four quality stars for its Padra Plus van.
Referring to the company's goal of producing more than 50,000 commercial vehicles this year, the CEO of Zamyad said the company is pursuing its macro policy of increasing output and improving the quality of vehicles to the latest standards.
“The company has focused on the development of its light and heavy vehicles portfolio, which includes the supply of Padra Plus van and Karoon double cabin van,” he said.
Mortazavi announced the company’s plans to end the production of incomplete cars.
“At present, Zamyad is selling and delivering cars directly to customers. The number of cars stored in the parking lot due to the shortage of parts has declined significantly since the beginning of the year and reached 170 cars,” he said.
SAIPA Sets Production Records
The daily and weekly domestic production records were broken by SAIPA Automotive Group in the third fiscal month (started May 22), according to the latest statistics reported by the company.
With the production of 1,835 vehicles on May 25, SAIPA set the daily production record in the last eight months.
In the first week of the current Iranian month (May 22-May 28), with the production of 10,601 vehicles, the highest weekly output was registered in the last 12 months by the industrial group, Donyaye Khodro reported.
To increase production capacity and reduce incomplete vehicles in SAIPA, 17,000 defective vehicles have been completed since the beginning of the current fiscal year (March 21), which has resulted in a 40% reduction in incomplete vehicles.
In other words, 43,000 incomplete vehicles in SAIPA’s parking lot have decreased to 26,000 and the company intends to boost the number of these vehicles to 20,000 vehicles.
SAIPA produced nearly 70,000 vehicles in the fiscal 2021-22, according to the Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade, which shows that 103% of its target were achieved.
Despite the criticisms of some automakers regarding the ministry’s policy regarding the integrated sales system, Mohammad Ali Teymouri, the CEO of SAIPA, considered it as one of the best policies implemented in the automotive industry.
"All major automobile producing countries supply and sell their products on this basis. If proper policymaking had been done for SAIPA from the beginning, the group would have been able to produce 2,700 vehicles in three shifts," he said.
The CEO noted that SAIPA has been able to use 98% of its capacity in two shifts this year and produce 1,800 cars per day.
“The main problem with unsafe cars goes back to the 18 million cars that have been produced in the fiscal 2011-12 and before," he said.
"Recently, Tiba and Samand cars have been declared unsafe cars by the Institute of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran. However, these vehicles have 85 standards and the main problem pertains to cars produced before the fiscal 2011-12 and a serious decision must be made to collect old cars."
Teymouri stressed that there must be a process to remove the car from the production chain because currently, parts manufacturers have produced parts for Tiba and Samand, the manufacturers of which also have parts of these two cars in their warehouses, so preventing the production of these cars in a sudden manner and without prior notice will cause losses and waste national resources.
