Press releases 2004

At Farnborough Air Show, Volvo Aero launches a new way to offer customized services to the global aviation community.

At Farnborough Air Show, Volvo Aero launches a new way to offer customized services to the global aviation community.

Volvo CE is launching its ECR range of short swing radius compact excavators from 2.5 to 8 tonnes, designed to meet the needs of operators working in confined areas.

Volvo hereby invites the mass media to a press conference on Wednesday, July 21 in conjunction with the release of the Volvo Group's report on the second quarter 2004.

Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) has sold its compact motor grader business to Champion LLC, Charlotte, North Carolina, a company organized by Gary Abernathy, manager of the Volvo compact motor grader product line since 1997. Abernathy became of manager of the business in 1993 under its previous owner, Champion Road Machinery, Ltd., which was acquired by Volvo CE in 1997.

The southern hemisphere will mount its strongest challenge for many years in the upcoming Volvo Ocean Race.  Two teams, one from Australia and one from Brazil, are preparing to build boats.

Volvo Bus Corporation has received one of the largest single orders ever in the UK. It's an order from the bus operator First for 486 Volvo buses with Wrightbus bodies.

Volvo Construction Equipment has acquired the engine remanufacturing-related assets of ECHO Industries, Inc (ECHO), Charlotte, North Carolina; the primary supplier of remanufactured engines to Volvo CE in North America. The acquisition is effective 28 June, 2004.

Volvo Penta’s 12-liter diesel engines are gaining increasing numbers of customers among machine producers worldwide. When KCI Konecranes of Finland, a leading manufacturer of lifting equipment, secured a major order for gantry cranes, the power unit chosen was Volvo Penta’s 12-liter engine – despite the fact that similar cranes had previously been equipped with 15-liter engines.

Volvo Penta is delivering generator sets to a total of eight tanker vessels ordered by the Russian shipping company Palmali Shipping.