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Construction Equipment

Volvo CE’s ECR88D compact excavator wins iF product design award

Just in case award-winning design plays heavily into your buying decisions, Volvo Construction Equipment might have the compact excavator for you. On Friday, Volvo CE was honored during a ceremony in Munich, Germany, receiving an iF product design award for the ECR88D compact excavator. The short swing radius machine was chosen by a panel of […]

March 2, 2014

Construction Equipment

Circle of Life: Factory that made Volvo construction equipment for 167 years is destroyed by its own machines

After being in operation for more than 167 years, a Volvo Construction Equipment hardening plant in Sweden met its own demise at the hand of the very machines it helped create. Located in Eskilstuna, Sweden, the old plant was situated in an area of town known as Munktellstaden, named after Theofron Munktell, the father of Volvo CE. The […]

February 25, 2014

Construction Equipment

Volvo CE fills gap in C-Series line with launch of MCT110C compact track loader

With the launch of the MCT110C compact track loader, Volvo Construction Equipment fills the gap between their MCT85C and MCT125C units. One of the four tracked models in the C-Series line, the MCT110C has a rated operating capacity of 2,250 pounds and features a Tier 4 Final 74-horsepower four-cylinder engine. The machine’s advanced combustion system […]

February 10, 2014

Business

With acquisition finalized, Volvo Rents is now BlueLine Rental

After its acquisition by private equity firm Platinum Equity — finalized in January –Volvo Rents has been rebranded BlueLine Rental. With 130 rental stores in North America, BlueLine will continue to rent Volvo backhoes, skid steers, compact wheel loaders, compact excavators and compaction equipment, along with other machines and tools. Scott Hall, president of BlueLine, […]

February 10, 2014

Business

Volvo CE operating income plummets 54% in 2013 despite gains in 4Q

Despite encouraging gains in the fourth quarter, Volvo Construction Equipment will be glad to put 2013 behind it. Full-year sales fell by 16 percent to $8.2 billion (53.4 billion SEK) while operating income plummeted 54 percent to $399 million (2.6 billion SEK). In its report, Volvo CE attributed the fall in operating income to “tough price […]

February 5, 2014

Construction Equipment

Excavator busts massive beaver dam, artfully tiptoes away from ensuing flood

This video exemplifies the fun of watching construction equipment. In it we see a very skilled operator bust up a huge beaver dam. He lays his pallets one by one to get to the massive pile of sticks and dirt and once that dam is busted and all that water is rushing at him, he […]

January 17, 2014

Construction Equipment

Cummins releases “sulfur tolerance kit” for 49 to 675 hp engines

Answering concerns about how machines using its Tier 4 engines can be used in lower regulated countries, Cummins said today it will offer a Sulfur Tolerance Kit for its Tier 4 Interim and Final engines that will allow the engines to operate on higher sulfur fuels. Tier 4 engines require the use of Ultra Low […]

December 23, 2013

Roadbuilding

25 Days of RollOuts: Volvo DD110B asphalt compactor

Volvo’s DD110B asphalt compactor, which replaced the DD90, features larger drums, more amplitude, higher frequency, increased centrifugal force and more water storage (made possible with two tanks) than its predecessor and is powered by a Tier 4 Interim Volvo engine. Volvo also included a new operator system with features like a six-way adjustable seat, tilt-steering […]

December 23, 2013

Business

Volvo sells Volvo Rents equipment rental business to Platinum Equity

As rumored earlier this year, the Volvo Group has agreed to sell its Volvo Rents construction equipment rental business to Platinum Equity, a U.S.-based private equity firm, for $1.1 billion (SEK 7.5 billion). The sale should be completed during the first quarter of 2014. As a pre-requisite for the sale to go through, Platinum Equity […]

December 10, 2013

Business

Trucking company owner parodies Van Damme’s “Epic Split” to demonstrate the dangers of Obamacare

A few weeks ago, an ad by Volvo Trucks took the Internet by storm. It featured action star Jean Claude Van Damme performing an “Epic Split” between two Volvo FM trucks in reverse. And now, unsurprisingly, it has been parodied. But parodies of viral videos don’t usually come from the owners of trucking companies. Especially […]

December 9, 2013

Roadbuilding

Volvo CE names Martin Weissburg as next president

Volvo Construction Equipment has announced its next president will be Martin Weissburg, who currently serves as president of Volvo Financial Services (VFS), according to a report from our sister site, Equipment World. Weissburg succeeds current Volvo CE president Pat Olney, who announced in October that he will be leaving the company at the end of […]

November 18, 2013

Construction Equipment

Jean-Claude Van Damme performs “Epic Split” between two trucks in reverse in viral Volvo ad

The folks at Volvo have put together some pretty audacious advertisements for their new trucks. First they let a hamster drive an FMX with a dump body up the side of a quarry. That seemed a little crazy, but was mainly just cute. Then one of their engineers buried himself up to the head and […]

November 18, 2013