Corporate news
| Volvo Powertrain today announced that it signed a solar power services agreement with SunEdison. It will be the first North American Volvo facility to host a solar photovoltaic (PV) system. The Volvo Powertrain solar project is part of The Volvo Group’s core value of environmental care, which includes measures to use CO2-neutral energy in its global operations. |
| From 2009 onwards, Volvo will be the title sponsor and co-promoter of the prestigious Volvo World Match Play Championship, which moves to Finca Cortesín in the region of Andalucía in Spain for an initial three-year-period. |
| This week Volvo is celebrating 10 years, a decade, of progress in India. Starting with just one product line in trucks with one factory, Volvo in India today is an organization with 2,000 employees, 3 factories, 170 support points and a market leadership across all its chosen segments in the truck, bus & construction equipment, Industrial Power system & Marine segments. In 2008, Volvo will deliver over 5,000 high-performing vehicles, equipment & power system packages to the market.
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| Volvo Trucks North America will develop lightweight prototype sleepers made with advanced composite material technology as part of a U.S. Army program to reduce the weight and improve fuel economy of trucks.
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| Marstrand, the famous sailing and recreational island close to Goteborg on Sweden’s west coast, will be the Pit Stop for the 2008-09 Volvo Ocean Race en route to Stockholm, race organisers have announced. |
| Attacks against truck drivers and their cargoes cost haulage firms in the EU several billion euro every year and constitute a major threat to the drivers. Volvo Trucks and Securitas are now launching a new security system aimed at lowering the risk of theft, hijacking and other threats. |
| On Wednesday, June 4, Volvo Truck Corporation Director for Environment, Lars Mårtensson provided a keynote address during the European Commission’s Green Week, the biggest annual conference devoted to European environmental policy. |
| With the fourth Safe & Sober talk, held in Brussels yesterday at the House of Representatives, the Safe & Sober Campaign marked another success in promoting the actions taken against drink driving in commercial transport and leveraging awareness for a Pan-European harmonisation in Blood Alcohol Concentration-levels. |
| Volvo Buses has received its first order for the new bi-articulated version of the Volvo 7300 in Mexico. The buses will traffic the world’s longest BRT corridor in Mexico City. |
| Volvo Trucks North America introduced an innovative process called MVASIST to provide customers with faster, more accurate service estimates and write-ups when their trucks need service. MVASIST is an internet application that simplifies the critical first step of the service process by providing the service writer with integrated fleet and manufacturer information. Customers benefit with greater uptime, improved cost management and a better overall service experience.
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