Press releases

Sharply lower global demand, especially in the mining sector, weighs on first quarter 2013 results at Volvo CE. But with improved profitability over the previous quarter and inventories now in balance, the company has increased production to meet the spring selling season.

Volvo Construction Equipment President Pat Olney used his bauma 2013 press conference speech to unveil the company’s Stage IV/Tier 4 Final emissions technology – a system comprehensively tested in thousands of hours of field trials and already proven in over a million on-highway Volvo Trucks.

World-leading OEMs have signed supply agreements for Volvo Penta Tier 4/Final off-road diesel engines, with deliveries starting next year. With the strength of the Volvo Group's overall service and product offering, Volvo Penta conquers more and more global customers in the off-road segment.

Volvo Construction Equipment introduces a range of tailored buckets and hydraulic breakers designed to perform flawlessly with its range of compact and general purpose excavators.

Volvo Construction Equipment demonstrates its expertise in personalized solutions with an expanding line of innovative customer solutions tailored to increase availability throughout a machine’s lifecycle. And don’t miss the expanded range of Volvo Attachments that will be presented at bauma 2013.

Volvo Trucks reveals the new Volvo FMX at the Bauma exhibition in Munich, Germany. The new construction truck is loaded with innovations that benefit haulers as well as drivers.

With the introduction of a number of new engine variants, Volvo Penta can now offer the mining industry a complete range of engines approved for underground mining applications. The selection of nine Tier 2 engines and nine Tier 4i engines – which provide outstanding ventilation rates – enable manufacturers and users of mining equipment to make the perfect Volvo Penta engine choice.

Volvo Construction Equipment is well known for its high-quality, safe and fuel-efficient machines. But at bauma 2013, Volvo demonstrates that it’s about more than ‘yellow metal’ by exhibiting its total ‘rock to road’ package of new machine and customer solutions that, together, help build our societies.

Harnessing the latest in-cylinder, external and SCR technology, Volvo Construction Equipment is ready to comply with the tough new Stage IV/Tier 4 Final emission legislation.

Over the next three years, Volvo CE will launch a dizzying number of state-of-the-art road building machines, offering reduced noise and emissions, greater fuel and operational efficiency as well as unparalleled operator comfort.