Press releases

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 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.

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.

With powerful, fuel-efficient Volvo engines, a perfectly matched hydraulic system and a robust body, the new Volvo ECR25D, ECR58D and ECR88D short swing radius excavators offer remarkable productivity, stability, ease-of-use and safety when working in confined or restricted conditions.

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.

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.