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Volvo Construction Products is really a company and subsidiary section of AB Volvo. Volvo Construction Equipment develops, produces and markets equipment for the building and related businesses.

A heavily altered Volvo can be used to launch big balloon payloads at Esrange in northern Sweden.

Volvo Construction Products has manufacturing facilities in Sweden, France, Germany, China, Brazil, Mexico, Republic of Korea, India, and Poland. With the purchase of the road department of Ingersoll Rand, a Road Construction facility was acquired by Volvo in Pennsylvania, their only existence within america. The organization offers sparepart supply and global service along with a broad variety of attachments.

Principal Volvo items for your rental centers comprise the firm's complete line of compact excavators, skid-steers, and backhoe loaders.

The company's gear rental arm, Volvo Rents, began its gear franchising initiative in 2001. The firm proceeds to expand its operations in Europe with rental facilities in Spain and Portugal - - and now has almost 90 gear rental facilities - - largely in North America. In 2008, Volvo formed "Volvo Construction Products & Providers California," in the IRES and recently obtained "Mathews Machinery" places located in California.

History

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The firm was set up in 1832. In 1932 the choice was supposed to unify both organizations Munktells and Bolinders. In 1950, AB Volvo purchased the machine maker BolinderMunktell (BM). Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, a variety of European, American and Asian building equipment makers were bought.

In February 2007, Volvo announced it had decided to purchase the highway building products department of IngersollRand for $1.3 billion in money to reenter the Road Construction marketplace.

The unit makes and sells compaction equipment, asphalt paving equipment, milling machines and building - associated materials handling equipment and produced net earnings of about $ 850 million for 2006. The deal comprises production facilities in Pennsylvania, Germany, China and India, too as 20 distribution and support facilities within the U.S. The company employs about 2,000 people world-wide.

On December 11, 2009, Volvo announced that it could shut its production facility in Asheville, NC on or before March 31, 2010; leading to the reduction of 228 jobs, and also the shortage of any building equipment facilities in america beyond Highway Machinery. These products assembled in the Asheville Plant, including crawler excavators and wheel loaders, were used in Volvo production facilities in Sweden and South Korea.

On January 13, 2010, Volvo announced that it could invest 65 million SEK to start creating crawler excavators in Brazil, benefiting from government run, low funding alternatives for products constructed in nation.

Starting in 2010, Volvo introduced its new emphasis entitled "Fit for your Future". Important initiatives include concentrating increase and expansion in the "BRIC" nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China). The brand new emphasis is set to operate through 2012.

Demonstration Center and a top notch Consumer will probably be constructed in Shippensburg. In its particular Training Center, and addition, a new office building will be put up by Volvo CE to the campus to place its Regional Sales Headquarters, its Volvo Rents offices.