Tag: Volvo Construction Equipment: Page 26

Roadbuilding

New Road Products

Graders, excavators, cement alternatives and herbicides are among the products featured.

August 2, 2011

Roadbuilding

New Road Products

Graders, excavators, cement alternatives and herbicides are among the products featured.

August 2, 2011

Business

Volvo customers win big in Vegas

Fairchild Brothers has been moving dirt for more than four decades. But now they’ll be doing it in style with the new Volvo MCT135C tracked skid steer loader they won at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2011. In Las Vegas, the odds of winning aren’t good – ‘the house always wins’, as they say. But during CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2011, which took […]

July 19, 2011

Safety

Product Report

Volvo continues 50-machine rollout By Marcia Gruver Doyle Volvo Construction Equipment’s Tier 4 Interim engines took center stage during its Volvo Days event in May in Sweden.  “The only thing customers will notice on these engines is the required diesel particulate filter change after 4,500 hours,” said Arvid Rinaldo, global communications strategy manager. “The filter […]

July 4, 2011

Roadbuilding

AEM Construction Challenge student competition winners announced

Fourteen student teams from the United States and Canada have won the 2011 edition of the annual AEM Construction Challenge presented by Volvo Construction Equipment. The annual challenge is held at the Global Finals of Destination ImagiNation (DI). The 2011 event took place May 25-28 at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. (For photos of […]

June 6, 2011

Technology

AEM Construction Challenge student competition winners announced

Fourteen student teams from the United States and Canada have won the 2011 edition of the annual AEM Construction Challenge presented by Volvo Construction Equipment. The annual challenge is held at the Global Finals of Destination ImagiNation (DI). The 2011 event took place May 25-28 at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

June 6, 2011

Safety

Volvo continues product advances

Volvo Construction Equipment expanded on its CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2011 introductions, highlighting several machines in its extensive product offerings at its Volvo Days event in Sweden at the end of May. Front and center was its Tier 4 Interim engines. “The only thing customers will notice on these engines is the required diesel particulate filter change after […]

May 31, 2011

Construction Equipment

Woodco Machinery acquires certain assets from Volvo Construction Equipment & Services

Volvo Construction Equipment dealer Woodco Machinery (Woodco) has acquired certain assets from the Volvo Construction Equipment & Services (VCES) Southborough, Massachusetts location. Woodco has now added Volvo compaction, paving and milling products to its existing portfolio, which includes wheel loaders, excavators, articulated haulers, motor graders, compact wheel loaders and excavators, skid steer and backhoe loaders. […]

May 17, 2011

Business

CONEXPO/CONAGG 2011

CONEXPO-CON/AGG What it means to you and the future of the industry Staff Reports With a backdrop of 20-percent construction unemployment and two years of abysmal machine sales, the tri-annual heavy equipment trade show CONEXPO-CON/AGG opened on March 22nd, in Las Vegas – ground zero in the housing bust and a town still reeling from […]

May 4, 2011

Roadbuilding

Ohio student team wins 2011 AEM Construction Challenge teen competition

A team of students from Miami Valley Career Technology Center in Clayton, Ohio, has won the 2011 Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) Construction Challenge presented by Volvo Construction Equipment. The team competed against 23 other teams from around the United States and Canada for the title. The competition took place March 22-24 in Las Vegas during CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2011.,A team of students from Miami Valley Career Technology Center in Clayton, Ohio, has won the 2011 Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) Construction Challenge presented by Volvo Construction Equipment. The team competed against 23 other teams from around the United States and Canada for the title. The competition took place March 22-24 in Las Vegas during CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2011.,A team of students from Miami Valley Career Technology Center in Clayton, Ohio, has won the 2011 Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) Construction Challenge presented by Volvo Construction Equipment. The team competed against 23 other teams from around the United States and Canada for the title. The competition took place March 22-24 in Las Vegas during CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2011.,A team of students from Miami Valley Career Technology Center in Clayton, Ohio, has won the 2011 Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) Construction Challenge presented by Volvo Construction Equipment. The team competed against 23 other teams from around the United States and Canada for the title. The competition took place March 22-24 in Las Vegas during CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2011.,A team of students from Miami Valley Career Technology Center in Clayton, Ohio, has won the 2011 Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) Construction Challenge presented by Volvo Construction Equipment. The team competed against 23 other teams from around the United States and Canada for the title. The competition took place March 22-24 in Las Vegas during CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2011.,A team of students from Miami Valley Career Technology Center in Clayton, Ohio, has won the 2011 Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) Construction Challenge presented by Volvo Construction Equipment. The team competed against 23 other teams from around the United States and Canada for the title. The competition took place March 22-24 in Las Vegas during CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2011.,A team of students from Miami Valley Career Technology Center in Clayton, Ohio, has won the 2011 Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) Construction Challenge presented by Volvo Construction Equipment. The team competed against 23 other teams from around the United States and Canada for the title. The competition took place March 22-24 in Las Vegas during CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2011.,A team of students from Miami Valley Career Technology Center in Clayton, Ohio, has won the 2011 Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) Construction Challenge presented by Volvo Construction Equipment. The team competed against 23 other teams from around the United States and Canada for the title. The competition took place March 22-24 in Las Vegas during CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2011.,A team of students from Miami Valley Career Technology Center in Clayton, Ohio, has won the 2011 Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) Construction Challenge presented by Volvo Construction Equipment. The team competed against 23 other teams from around the United States and Canada for the title. The competition took place March 22-24 in Las Vegas during CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2011.,A team of students from Miami Valley Career Technology Center in Clayton, Ohio, has won the 2011 Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) Construction Challenge presented by Volvo Construction Equipment. The team competed against 23 other teams from around the United States and Canada for the title. The competition took place March 22-24 in Las Vegas during CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2011.

March 26, 2011

ConExpo-Con/Agg

Blaw-Knox commercial paver legacy lives

By Mike Anderson LAS VEGAS – Under a manufacturing and licensing agreement with Volvo Construction Equipment, the heritage of Blaw-Knox commercial asphalt pavers and road wideners lives on in a new division of VT LeeBoy. VT LeeBoy, parent company of the LeeBoy and Rosco brands, introduced the new LB Performance division at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2011. Depending […]

March 22, 2011

Construction Equipment

AB Volvo names new president, CEO

AB Volvo’s board of directors appointed Olof Persson, 46, as the president and chief executive officer of Volvo. Persson, who is currently president of Volvo Construction Equipment, will assume the position on Sept. 1 when Leif Johansson retires. The board of directors reviewed a large number of both internal and external candidates to identify a […]

March 16, 2011