The Arvika plant in Sweden has a truly fascinating history. Today’s assembling at the F-factory consists of the HDE13 and HDE16 engines.ġ30 years of dedication and commitment at the Arvika plant In October 1975 the assembly factory F was ready to produce engines at an annual capacity of 60,000 units per year. Today this is part of the Group Trucks Operations Powertrain Production plant in Skövde. The construction work of a new engine assembly factory started in 1973 and took two years to complete. During the 1920s, Volvo became an important customer and in 1935 AB Volvo bought its own engine production factory. John G Grönvall started Sköfvde foundry and mechanical workshop that year and up until 1907 the main products were frame saws, iron stoves and turbines. The history of the Skövde plant, however, dates back all the way to 1868. The assembly factory stood ready in 1975. The entire engine plant has some 2,800 employees. The main processes are casting, machining and assembly. Today, the Skövde plant in Sweden is a worldclass production facility supplying Volvo Group with diesel engines and components. The Skövde factory produced its first engine in 1907 The plant also produces marine drives for Volvo Penta and supplies the Volvo Group’s plants in North and South America with transmission components. Group Truck Operations Powertrain Production in Köping has some 1,500 employees who machines and assembles transmissions for Volvo trucks, buses and haulers. In 2016 the plant celebrated its 160th anniversary. In 1942 Köpings Mekaniska Verkstad became part of Volvo. This photo shows the production of gearboxes in 1930. In 1930, with its production of both cars and trucks, Volvo quickly became an important customer for Köpings Mekaniska Verkstad. The following year, Volvo launched its first car. In 1926 AB Volvo, a recently established company, placed its first order for gearboxes with Köpings Mekaniska Verkstad. Its largest customers included railway workshops and gun factories. The company primarily produced machine tools, such as lathes, drilling machines and milling machines. In 1856 Köpings Mekaniska Verkstad (Köping’s Engineering Workshop) was founded by Otto G Hallström in Köping, Sweden. More than 160 years of history of the Köping plant Today, the site with its 4,000 employees is a reputed centre of excellence in several technical areas such as engine development and hybrid technology. By 1974, the 24,000 trucks manufactured by Berliet made up half the French production and almost 60 per cent of the company’s employees worked at the Lyon site. After World War II, the site continued to grow. In the 1930s, a new wave of construction gave rise to large offices for administrative activities. From 1916, the site supported the assembly of almost 15,000 CBA trucks delivered to the French Army during World War I. It covered an area of almost 400 hectares. The site consisted of immense buildings, separated by wide avenues, set up in a logical flow to supply assembly lines. Between 19 Marius Berliet built an industrial complex in Lyon spanning the districts of Saint-Priest and Vénissieux. The suffix “BM” was included in the product brand name until the end of the 1990s.Ĭradle of the Renault Trucks brand and steeped in history, the Lyon site celebrated 100 years in 2016. Since 1995, the company has been known as Volvo Construction Equipment. During the years that followed, some of the best machines ever made by Volvo were put to work on construction sites around the world. Four years later, the company decided to completely abandon the agricultural and forestry sectors and only concentrate on construction machines. In 1973, the company name changed to Volvo BM AB in order to strengthen the Volvo identity and reinforce the focus on construction equipment.
A total of 28,439 Boxers were produced between 19. It was robust and resilient and was therefore also used in wheel loaders, haulers and backhoe loaders. The Boxer 350 saw the introduction of a totally new driveline. From agricultural and forestry machines to construction machinesįinal check and filling up with fluids on a Volvo-BM Boxer 350 tractor on the Bolinder-Munktell assembly line in Eskilstuna, Sweden, in the mid-1960s.
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