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Roadbuilding

ASC, Swanston realign Volvo equipment distribution in North Dakota, western Minnesota

Volvo distributors ASC Construction Equipment and Swanston Equipment Companies have realigned the distribution of Volvo Construction Equipment in North Dakota and western Minnesota, effective immediately. ASC is handling the sales and service of Volvo brand heavy equipment, which includes motor graders, articulated haulers, excavators and wheel loaders. The company is also taking over the sales […]

April 30, 2013

Roadbuilding

Volvo CE announces Tier 4 Final approach at Bauma 2013

Volvo Construction Equipment President Pat Olney said today at Bauma 2013 that the company will primarily use SCR technology as its Tier 4 Final approach, our sister site, Equipment World, reported from the show. Olney noted that Volvo has achieved 5 percent fuel efficiency with its Final approach. In order to maintain the correct DEF-to-fuel […]

April 17, 2013

Business

Head of Volvo Construction Americas lauds Obama’s focus on improving infrastructure

During his State of the Union address last week, President Barack Obama dedicated a significant amount of time to the country’s failing infrastructure and proposed an initiative to bring the country’s highways and bridges back up to standard. Obama called his plan a “fix-it-first” program that would not only make the most needed repairs to […]

February 19, 2013

Roadbuilding

New Road Products

A crawler loader, a sidewalk paver, an asphalt heater and paver and a work book collection are among the products featured.

February 7, 2013

Business

Little change in Volvo Construction Equipment net sales for 2012

Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) has released its fourth quarter and year­-end results, which report net sales for 2012 remained the same as 2011, as well as a 15-­percent share in the Chinese wheel loader and excavator segment in 2012. Volvo CE also reported 78,491 machine sales for the year, the company’s second best ever […]

February 6, 2013

Business

Volvo CE appoints Thorsten Poszwa as global director of external communications

Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) has appointed Thorsten Poszwa as the company’s new global director of external communications, effective May 1. Poszwa will be based at Volvo CE’s headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, where he will focus on print and online media relations for the business as well as develop worldwide external communication standards and practices […]

January 29, 2013

Construction Equipment

Cat, Volvo, JCB are Equipment World’s 2013 Innovations winners

Fuel, fuel, fuel and the costs and complexities thereof.

January 1, 2013

Construction Equipment

Volvo Construction sales fall 9 percent in third quarter, huge dip in operating income

Volvo Construction Equipment reports that it has reduced production and inventory in its facilities along with inventories at its dealers in response to a drop in sales and an "uncertain outlook."

October 24, 2012

Safety

Volvo CE offers Road Institute courses

Volvo Construction Equipment is offering courses during the 2012-2013 Road Institute. The course curriculum offers two- to five-day sessions beginning in October and continuing through May 2013, with classes held at two training facilities in North America. These facilities are located in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and Phoenix, Arizona. Road Institute focuses on the hot-mix asphalt (HMA) […]

August 16, 2012

Equipment

Volvo CE president confident in North American market

Volvo Construction Equipment president and chief executive Pat Olney discussed his confidence in the North American construction equipment market at a press conference Thursday in Miami. Olney’s confirmation of his belief in the recovery in the North American construction equipment market, which the company expects could see demand increase by up to a quarter in […]

May 22, 2012

Roadbuilding

ASC wins 2011 Volvo Masters competition

Volvo Construction Equipment dealer ASC has won the 2011 Volvo Masters competition in the North America Region. The Volvo Masters is a team competition for parts and service technicians who solve problems similar to those faced daily on jobsites. Teams are judged on their technical and parts system skills, on how they handle their tools, […]

April 15, 2011

Roadbuilding

Volvo launches Operator Safety Vest campaign at Bauma

Volvo Construction Equipment launched at this year’s Bauma its latest safety campaign — Operator Safety Vest — in a bid to reduce worksite injuries at this year’s Bauma. The conference is currently going on in Munich, Germany. Through the campaign, the company issued thousands of Volvo-branded high-visibility jackets at Bauma that will be worn globally […]

April 27, 2010