The Volvo Group invests in new concept for emissions resulting from function tests

The Volvo Group invests in new concept for emissions resulting from function
tests

The Volvo Group is investing slightly more than SEK 330 M in a new concept for
reducing emissions and improving quality in connection with the function testing
of newly produced engines. Use of the new technology will reduce emissions by
approximately 85 percent. 


The concept has been tested for about a year at the Volvo Group's
engine-production plant in Curitiba, Brazil. The new technology enables safer
and more efficient quality assurance of new engines. While it previously took
about 30 minutes to check all functions during testing, the new method generates
the same results significantly faster and with greater precision.

With leading-edge evaluation methods in the background, this brief engine test
provides complete information about functionality. At the same time, emissions
of nitrous oxides and other harmful substances from the plant are reduced by 85
percent. 

During 2008, the new technology will be introduced at the engine-production
plants in Skövde, Sweden, and Hagerstown, Maryland in the US. In 2009, the
equipment will be installed at all of the Volvo Group's engine plants worldwide.

The investment also comprises upgrading and improving quality assurance of the
assembly process in engine production.  

March 4, 2008

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The Volvo Group is one of the world's leading manufacturers of trucks, buses and
construction equipment, drive systems for marine and industrial applications,
aerospace components and services. The Group also provides complete solutions
for financing and service. The Volvo Group, which employs about 100,000 people,
has production facilities in 19 countries and sells their products in more than
180 markets. Annual sales of the Volvo Group amount to about SEK 285 billion.
The Volvo Group is a publicly-held company headquartered in Göteborg, Sweden.
Volvo shares are listed on OMX Nordic Exchange Stockholm.