Volvo Construction Equipment

Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo) and Allied Construction Products LLC (Allied) have entered into an agreement for the sale and support of Allied hydraulic breakers. The partnership was created to offer customers more options in breakers and other aftermarket attachments in North America, and results in the addition of 40 models to Volvo dealer product offerings, including the Allied flagship Rammer and Hy-Ram hydraulic breakers and Ho-Pac and Skid-Pac compactor/drivers. Comparable Volvo-branded products in North America will be discontinued with this new partnership.

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Volvo Construction Equipment presented field test results for its LX1 prototype electric hybrid wheel loader at a press event in California, US, on July 12. The company organized the event alongside its customer Waste Management, which carried out the field tests, CALSTART, which conducted emission tests on the machine, and the California Energy Commission, which helped fund the LX1 project. Since the end of last year, the LX1 has performed hundreds of hours of real work in two applications at Waste Management facilities in California. 

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Early every morning when general manager Stuart Sharpe and his team arrive at the sprawling Tervita Metals Recycling worksite, located in northeast Red Deer, Alberta, they gaze over tons and tons of what others would call junk. But their eyes see nothing but treasure. This massive 17-acre site is the headquarters of Tervita’s metal recycling operation. From above, it looks like a maze created from every type of scrap metal imaginable. There are damaged railcars, rows of worn railcar wheels, expired city buses, kilometres of used gas-field piping, expendable parts from oil wells, drill rigs, bitumen concentrators, cooling radiators and heating units and parts from gas refineries.

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Few of us give much thought to popping a can of our favorite fizzy drink and tossing the remnants into a recycle bin. However, it’s precisely what happens after the can hits the bin that Smelter Service Corporation is interested in.

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Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) reinforced that energy efficiency is at the top of the company’s agenda when it unveiled its prototype hybrid wheel loader – known as the LX1 – at the Xploration Forum in Eskilstuna, Sweden, on September 14^th. The company gave customers, the international press, government representatives and academics an exclusive look at the electric hybrid machine, which can deliver up to a 50% improvement in fuel efficiency. On top of this, the LX1 also offers a significant reduction in emissions and noise pollution compared to its conventional counterparts.

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Texas is home to barbeques, beef jerky, cowboy boots and now, Town & Country Environmental Services, the first single-stream construction and demolition (C&D) material recovery facility (MRF) in the northern region of the Lone Star state. And it won’t be the company’s last, thanks to rising concerns about environmental sustainability in the US.

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After almost two years in development, LEGO Technic has announced the launch of its latest model – an approximately 1:20 scale model of a Volvo EW160E wheeled excavator.

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2016 marks the 50^th anniversary of the Volvo articulated hauler, and as part of the year long celebration, Volvo held a contest to identify the oldest Volvo articulated hauler still actively working on a North American jobsite. After reviewing the submissions, the winner was identified as Tomy Stenvall of Amswede Corporation in Chula Vista, California, who runs a 1968 Volvo DR860 on almost a daily basis. As a reward for his impressive equipment upkeep, he was sent to participate in the week long celebration of the articulated hauler at Volvo’s Braås, Sweden facility from July 13-18, 2016.

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Students from three universities have collaborated with the Volvo Group and the waste recycling company, Renova. The result is a robot that automatically collects and empties refuse bins. A drone on the roof of the refuse truck scans the area and helps the robot to find the bins.

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Recycling organic waste and producing compost has two environmental benefits. Firstly, it reduces the amount of food and garden waste that is sent to landfill, which in turn reduces the amount of methane – a greenhouse gas that is 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide – that is produced while it decomposes.

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