All Volvo Cars articles – Page 4
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ArticleVolvo restructures senior management
Sweden – The OEM has created three new business regions, each led by a senior vice-president (SVP) and member of the executive management team. Each of the three SVPs will have total operational responsibility for his region. Volvo Cars has also established an SVP role for its chief information officer.Encompassing ...
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ArticleVolvo Torslanda shifts up a gear
Sweden – The plant in Gothenburg will add a third shift and 1,300 personnel in the first quarter of 2015 to coincide with the production launch of Volvo’s new XC90 SUV. The move follows the opening of a new bodyshop in April this year which has raised the annual production ...
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ArticleVolvo Gent to cut CO2 emissions by 40%
Belgium – Volvo Car Group and Stora Enso, the global paper products group, have joined forces to reduce carbon emissions at Volvo's plant at Gent by over 40%. Stora Enso will install an underground hot water pipeline, from its biomass fuelled paper mill, to transport compressed water at a temperature ...
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ArticleVolvo builds first vehicle on SPA
Sweden – The Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) has been developed by the OEM in-house over the past four years as a mainstay of its $11 billion transformation plan. Following its debut with the XC90, the modular chassis technology will be rolled out across the Volvo product range.According to the OEM, ...
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ArticleVolvo ends domestic XC90 production
Sweden – After 12 years and more than 636,000 units, the OEM today stopped manufacturing a model which it claims “revolutionised the global SUV sector”. The last vehicle made at Torslanda will join the Volvo Museum collection in Gothenburg.The XC90 was launched with a range of five and six-cylinder engines, ...
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ArticleVolvo’s first Polestars are born at Torslanda
Sweden – The OEM plans to produce a total of 750 of the S60 and V60 models not only for the domestic market but for Switzerland, the Netherlands, the UK, the US, Canada and Japan.The Polestar marks Volvo’s first introduction of an independent partner to the Torslanda production operation. “It ...
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Volvo Trucks unveils automated transmission, dual clutch
Sweden – Claiming an industry first, the OEM says its product uses power-shift gear changes to enable torque to be maintained without any disruption in power delivery or loss of speed. I-Shift Dual Clutch can therefore deliver more comfortable and efficient progress on the road.I-Shift Dual Clutch is based on ...
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ArticleVolvo opens new bodyshop at Torslanda
Sweden – The manufacturing facility, inaugurated on the OEM’s 50th anniversary at the location, covers 24,000 sq. ft and will boost its annual capacity from 200,000 to 300,000 units. The move will bring Volvo closer to achieving its long-term goal of selling 800,000 cars per year.The bodyshop will be used ...
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Tech Mahindra to provide Volvo’s IT
Sweden – The provider of connected solutions will supply end-to-end IT infrastructure support and services for the carmaker not only in its domestic market but in China and Belgium, covering factories, R&D facilities, offices, dealerships and a global data centre. This will include 4,000 factory devices, 2,800 servers and 30,000 ...
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ArticleVolvo lays out its plans for 2014
Sweden – In line with its €11 billion four-year transformation plan, the OEM has said it will introduce new technologies and a series of “industry-leading” innovations, plus the XC90. The XC90 will be the first model built on the company’s new SPA vehicle architecture as well as the first to ...
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ArticlePermanova celebrates Volvo award
Sweden – The Volvo Cars Quality Excellence (VQE) award was presented to Ulf Sandström, managing director of Permanova Lasersystem, at a ceremony in Gothenburg in mid-December. Sandström welcomed the award as “proof that our work is being appreciated by our customers”.www.permanova.com
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ArticlePermanova delivers laser station to Volvo in Chengdu
China – The laser station for the welding and cutting of car bodies is operated in full automatic mode and includes seam-tracking technology in the welding tool. A small robot-carried xy stage with a cutting tool is used for laser cutting of shocktowers, plus reference plates in the side and ...
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ArticleVolvo receives approval for manufacturing in China
China – Government authorities have approved Volvo Cars’ bid to establish manufacturing plants in Daqing and Zhangjiakou meaning that Volvo Cars’ full Chinese industrial footprint (including Chengdu) has now been approved.The assembly plant in Daqing is under construction and the first pre-series cars will be built in late 2013 for ...
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Danielson appointed as vice-president at Volvo Cars China
Sweden – Volvo Cars has appointed Lars Danielson as senior vice-president, Volvo Cars China Operations. He succeeds Freeman Shen.Danielson was most recently vice-president of China operations within manufacturing, responsible for developing and establishing Volvo Cars’ manufacturing footprint in China.www.volvocars.com
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Volvo appointed Samuelsson as new president and CEO
Sweden – The board of directors of Volvo Car Group has appointed Håkan Samuelsson as new president and CEO. Stefan Jacoby will leave Volvo Car Group under an amicable agreement.Samuelsson was chairman and CEO of MAN SE between 2005 and 2009. Since 2010 he has been an independent member of ...
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Volvo appointed Alain Visser to Sales vice-president post
Sweden – Volvo Car Corporation has appointed Alain Visser to the new position of vice-president Sales Operations within Marketing, Sales and Customer Service.Visser comes from a position as vice-president Sales, Marketing and Aftersales for Opel and Vauxhall, based in Germany. His previous experience includes a variety of leadership positions in ...
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Axelson leaves Volvo after 12 years
Sweden – Volvo Car Corporation's senior vicepresident of public affairs, Olle Axelson, is leaving the company after 12 years as a member of the executive management team.Axelson was recruited to Volvo during summer 2000 and he has been operative under the executive management of four presidents and CEOs: Hans-Olov Olsson, ...
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Danielson leads Volvo's manufacturing operations in China
Gothenburg, Sweden – Lars Danielson has been appointed manager of Volvo’s manufacturing operations in China. Danielson was previously manager at Volvo Cars Torslanda.He will report to Freeman Shen, recently appointed as Senior Vice President, China Operations, and Magnus Hellsten, Volvo Cars’s Senior Vice President, Manufacturing.Danielson, 61, joined Volvo in June ...
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ArticleEditor's Note: The price of progress for Volvo
It’s widely believed that there is no such thing as a free lunch. In support of this truism, we can examine the case of Chinese carmaker Geely. Having bought Volvo from Ford in August for about RMB 11.3bn ($1.7bn), the Swedish premium vehicle manufacturer looked to be on considerably firmer ...
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ArticlePressing ahead at Volvo
Volvo Car’s new transfer line is the latest interpretation of so-called classical manufacturing. AMS talks with Jonas Knutsson about the technologies that make it possibleNew take on an old ideaHaste makes no wasteAlist of the attributes of a classical manufacturing ‘transfer line’ reads like a litany of everything that modern ...
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