Engineers at Volvo Construction Equipment are developing Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) which could reduce fuel consumption by up to 30% in certain applications and increase safety.

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 (Volvo CE), a leader in the Construction Equipment industry, has partnered with GMR Varalakshmi Foundation (GMRVF), the Corporate Social Responsibility arm of GMR Group, to offer an Operators Training Course, which will train under-privileged youth in India to operate construction machinery.

Volvo Construction Equipment has expanded its ability to provide custom machines for specialized applications. Today its portfolio of authorized modification partners and accompanying support structures enables customers to meet their individual requirements throughout the Volvo global distribution network.

Now available in EMEA and coming to APAC in 2013, Volvo Construction Equipment’s new series of hydraulic breakers for compact equipment are durable enough for a wide range of applications and provide consistent impact frequency and power for greater productivity.

Notwithstanding sharply reduced global demand in the last three months Volvo Construction Equipment rounded off a solid 2012 by extending its market leadership of the Chinese wheel loader and excavator segments, protected profitability via active inventory management – and sold its second highest ever number of machines.

Volvo Construction Equipment has announced that it is to consolidate its manufacturing capacity in Americas by relocating backhoe loader manufacture from Tultitlán, Mexico, to the company’s production facility in Pederneiras, Brazil.

Prior to his dramatic win on Sunday in the Volvo Golf Champions in South Africa, world number four and local hero Louis Oosthuizen had the best Friday of his life. Not only did he move into the lead in the tournament, but he also received the keys to the very thing that he has coveted for two years – a Volvo Compact Excavator EC55B.

When the job requires something beyond a standard machine, the Volvo Construction Equipment Body Builder system allows customers to build an excavator to suit their specific requirements.

Volvo Construction Equipment’s (Volvo CE) efforts have been recognized with the industry’s first worldwide certification for ISO 9001 (quality), ISO 14001 (environmental care) and OHSAS 18001 (occupational health & safety).