Volvo Construction Equipment, SDLG, and Volvo Buses have joined the Volvo Group’s cooperation with the Worldwide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) Climate Savers program. The cooperation is based on the Volvo Group’s commitment to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions by 30 million tons from construction equipment, buses and trucks manufactured through 2014. Volvo’s joint-venture company, SDLG, which manufactures construction equipment in China, will also become the first-ever Chinese company to be a member of Climate Savers.

With immediate effect, Inge Zhou has been appointed Vice President, Corporate Communications, for Volvo Construction Equipment’s newly formed China sales region.

Maintaining its ascendancy in the all-important Chinese market, Volvo Construction Equipment ended a successful 2011 with a 14% increase in net sales in the fourth quarter, helping the company to a full year sales increase of 15%. Amid steady growth in most markets, the company ended 2011 with a strong order book and having sold a record 84,000 machines.