4/21/2009 Value & support are central themes for Volvo at Intermat

Corporate Communication

Volvo Construction Equipment will use its ‘More Care. Built In’ brand statement to emphasise how Volvo machines and support services work together to provide total solutions in a range of job site applications. There will be several new models, including the revolutionary hybrid wheel loader. The expanded road machinery range will also be unveiled for the first time at a major European show, now wearing Volvo’s familiar yellow and grey livery.

Volvo Construction Equipment will use its 3,800m2 (40,700ft2) of stand space to show how ‘more care’ is expressed in smart product design, fuel efficient engine technology, flexible financing – combined with a well trained, experienced and committed dealer network – makes Volvo a solid partner through good times and bad.

The company will also convey how Volvo innovations have a high performance impact on customer profitability – everything from advanced engineering solutions to mobile high-tech diagnostics that allow customers to accurately calculate their costs.

A wide range of products and services will be shown; including several new machines such as the ECR 305CL short swing excavator and the L45F and L50F mid-sized wheel loaders. Another highlight of Volvo’s participation at Intermat will be the company’s new-look road machinery product range, now marketed in the corporate livery of yellow/grey and carrying the Volvo brand.

In the Innovation area, one of the industry’s most talked about products will be on show – the prototype Volvo Hybrid L220F Hybrid wheel loader. This machine’s diesel-electric hybrid drive system is the first iteration of Volvo’s ongoing development process – but its improved performance and reduced emissions and fuel consumption are impressive indicators of the potential environmental and economic benefits such hybrid systems offer.

In uncertain times, customers visiting the Volvo stand will also be reassured by a dedicated Service and Support unit, where the CareTrack remote monitoring system, maintenance packages and Volvo Financial Services offerings have been gathered together into one area. Visitors will also learn how the Eco Operator programme represents a safer and more environmentally way of training operators, and there will be an impressive range of site simulators on display – for excavators, wheel loaders and articulated haulers.

26 machines will be arranged by application, highlighting Volvo Construction Equipment’s increasing customer segment focus, and demonstrating how Volvo machines are designed to work as ‘systems’ rather than in isolation.


For further information, please contact:

Bill Law
Director, External Communications
Volvo Construction Equipment
Avenue du Hunderenveld 10
1082 Brussels, Belgium
Phone: + 32 478 92 43 26
E-mail: bill.law@volvo.com


Brian O’Sullivan
SE10
Phone: +44 77 333 50307
E-mail: osullivan@se10.com

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