Volvo Construction Equipment Enhances Production Facilities
Published: 24/7
Volvo Construction Equipment has inaugurated new facilities at its plants in Changwon, South Korea, and Braås, Sweden, to support its strategy to offer more sustainable solutions to its customers and meet its ambitious sustainability commitment of fossil-free manufacturing operations, with 35% of machine sales to be electric by 2030.
A 27,000-ft2 (2,500m2) battery pack production facility at Changwon allows full in-house production of batteries for Volvo’s construction machines, as well as other group products. Now operational, the facility’s first products will be used in the 23t Volvo EC230 Electric excavator, which begins mass production this summer. As Changwon is Volvo CE’s largest excavator manufacturing site, producing around 55% of its total excavator volumes, the new facility will become a core competence center for all Volvo electric excavators.
The Braås plant is undergoing an expansion of production facilities to accelerate the phased shift to electromobility for articulated haulers. This will enable the factory to deliver a larger range of articulated haulers with different types of powertrain to reflect Volvo’s shift toward offering solutions that run on more sustainable power sources.
The plant has always been at the forefront of sustainability, it was here that the first articulated hauler in the world was produced using fossil-free steel.