Volvo Construction Equipment

Volvo Construction Equipment ( Volvo CE short ) is one of the largest construction equipment manufacturers in the world and claims to be the largest producer of articulated dump trucks and wheel loaders. Volvo CE is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Swedish Volvo Group.

History

1832-1950: The precursor Munktell and Bolinder

In 1832, the Swede Johan Theofron Munktell founded the Munktells Mekaniska Verkstad that made ​​1839 products for industry, agriculture and infrastructure development. Munktells company was responsible for some technical milestones in the following years. So he built his first steam engine in 1847 and presented six years later Sweden's first steam locomotive, which paved the way for further use of steam engines in the industrial sector. 1913 Sweden's first powered by an internal combustion engine tractor was manufactured. With Construction is addressed as early as 1906 in the form of steam-powered road rollers.

Twelve years after the company was founded Munktells Jean and Carl Gerhard Bolinder brothers called 1844 a foundry to life and provided, inter alia, the execution of various mechanical works. 1893 was developed by BOLINDERS Mekaniska Verkstad the first internal combustion engine in Sweden.

1950-1980: Volvo leads Sweden's construction machinery industry

In 1950 Volvo Bolinder - Munktell took over and changed its name in BM- Volvo, Volvo BM later to.

Based on the Bolinder - Munktell tractor BM35 was 1954, the first Volvo wheel loaders under the type designation H10, where a 35 hp leis border, 3-cylinder diesel engine was used as a drive.

In 1966, the concept of articulated dump truck was first introduced in the form of the biaxial type DR631 by Volvo. By his own admission, Volvo is now the largest manufacturer of these vehicles in 2006, 50,000 rolled the vehicle from the factory in Braås.

Special attention you gave has always been the issue of security, which, inter alia, through the introduction of cabs with integrated roll-over protection and protection from falling objects in 1972 is expressed.

1980 to present: Internationalization

1985 was created by a collaboration between AB Volvo and the Clark Equipment Company VME, the company whose name is an acronym for the combined under this roof construction machinery manufacturer Volvo, Michigan and Euclid. The two companies each held 50 % of VME, Volvo to 1995, all shares of Clark took over and renamed the Construction Equipment business in Volvo Construction Equipment.

The further course of the Company's history is characterized since the 1980s by numerous acquisitions through which Volvo has established itself as one of the largest manufacturers in the industry.

1982, the Swedish car manufacturer gravity Kockum Country factory was taken. In 1990, Volvo acquired a 25.1 % stake in the German Wheel loader Brand Zettelmeyer. In 1991 the production program was supplemented by hydraulic excavators Åkerman brand and completely taken Zettelmeyer. 1995 Volvo acquired the French compact excavator manufacturer Pel-Job, 1997 Graderproduktion of Champion Road Machinery Limited. 1997 Volvo acquired for $ 173 million with Champion Road Machinery Grader a Canadian manufacturer. 1998, it acquired Volvo CE Samsung Heavy Industries, whereupon the production of excavators Åkerman has been set. 2007 employs the acquisition of road machinery business of Ingersoll Rand (formerly ABG General Construction Company). In addition, Volvo CE took over 70 % of Chinese construction machinery manufacturer Shandong Lingong Construction Machinery Co., Ltd..

After Volvo articulated since the 1970s and 1980s, all-wheel drive backhoe loaders offered, which were manufactured by the Swedish company Huddig, since 2002 include in-house developed machines to the program, which are designed in France and manufactured in Poland.

In early 2010, signed Volvo and British construction machinery manufacturer JCB an agreement, as a result JCB skid- steered future Skid Steer Loader ( " skid steer loader " ) for Volvo manufactures. The current production of Volvo 's skid steer loaders in the Brazilian Pedernairas is adjusted in favor of JCB machines.

The production of the Volvo grader plant in Canada in Goderich (formerly Champion ) was relocated in 2010 after Shippensburg, there to bundle the activities of the area for road construction machinery. In the context of further consolidation in North America also was the factory in Asheville, North Carolina, closed and manufacture of the types of machines produced so far there like excavators and wheel loaders in the existing production facilities in Arvika, Sweden, and Changwon, South Korea shifted.

Products

The following table provides an overview of the current production program of Volvo CE with the production and development locations of the various products (as of 2011 ).

  • Belley, France
  • Changwon, South Korea
  • Shanghai, China
  • Belley, France
  • Changwon, South Korea
  • Changwon, South Korea
  • Shanghai, China
  • Konz, Germany
  • Konz, Germany
  • Changwon, South Korea
  • Konz, Germany
  • Changwon, South Korea
  • Braås, Sweden
  • Arvika, Sweden
  • Konz, Germany
  • Pederneiras, Brazil
  • Braås, Sweden
  • Eskilstuna, Sweden
  • Braås, Sweden
  • Pederneiras, Brazil
  • Shippensburg, United States
  • Pederneiras, Brazil
  • Hameln, Germany
  • Shippensburg, United States
  • Bangalore, India
  • Shippensburg, United States
  • Bangalore, India
  • Hameln, Germany
  • Shippensburg, United States
  • Bangalore, India
  • Hameln, Germany
  • Shippensburg, United States
  • Bangalore, India
  • Hameln, Germany
  • Bangalore, India
  • Hameln, Germany
  • Bangalore, India
  • Hameln, Germany
  • Shippensburg, United States
  • Hameln, Germany
  • Shippensburg, United States
Types of business entity Loader (equipment) Bolinder-Munktell JCB (company) Paver (vehicle)
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