Every year, three million tonnes of crushed rock is being drilled, blasted, transported and sold from a low silica limestone quarry in Fujairah – one of the seven districts of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).  A relative stone’s throw from the glittering towers and desert oasis of Dubai, Tawiain in …

                A Westac Power generator sits in its temporary location outside the British Antarctic Survey’s Rothera Research Station on Adelaide Island, on the Antarctic Peninsula, before being moved into an insulated shed.   Despite the coldest temperatures on the planet, Volvo Penta engines are …

Production has started in Brazil of excavators from Shandong Lingong Construction Machinery Co., Ltd (Lingong). The SDLG-branded machines will be built in a $10 million purpose-built assembly hall within the Volvo Group facility in Pederneiras, in the state São Paulo.  To begin there will be four SDLG crawler excavator models …

As part of the Papua New Guinea liquefied natural gas (PNG LNG) project located in the southern highlands region, the Komo airfield is now complete — and has welcomed the first landing of an Antonov AH-124-100 aircraft. Komo is an extremely remote and resource-rich area in the highlands of Papua …

In the Canadian city of Coquitlam, 4,000 tons of glacial clay is being excavated every day across a 90-hectare aggregate open-pit mine. LaFarge in North America is the largest diversified supplier of construction materials in the United States and Canada. For the last decade the company has used Greater Vancouver-based …

In Shirpur, western India, four Volvo EC240 B Prime Series LC excavators are working through the night to provide essential water supplies for local communities in Maharashtra’s dry summer season. Maharashtra, the third biggest state by area in India, covers 307,731 km2, and its western region contributes the highest amount …

Volvo Penta attracted scores of customers to its bauma 2013 stand — the lure of seeing its complete range of new Stage IV/Tier 4 Final industrial engines proving irresistible. But the company also made a strong showing in all four corners of the exhibition, with a variety of OEMs proudly …

Visitors to this year’s Bauma 2013 exhibition in Munich are in for a treat, as Volvo Construction Equipment looks at the bigger picture, showcasing a total ‘rock to road’ package of new machine and customer solutions that together help build our societies. Whatever you do, don’t call Volvo Construction Equipment’s …

Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) has announced that Thorsten Poszwa has been appointed as its new Global Director of External Communications. Based at the company’s Brussels headquarters, the role encompasses print and online media relations for the business, as well as developing worldwide external communication standards and practices for Volvo …

This week’s Volvo Golf Champions at Durban Country Club in South Africa offers its golfers, for the first time ever at a professional event, the opportunity to win not one, but three different Volvo vehicles, including a construction machine, a truck and a car. Volvo has a reputation for its …