Volvo CE transfers backhoe loaders and motor graders to SDLG to improve profitability

As part of the Volvo Group’s ongoing activities to improve profitability and
reduce costs, Volvo Construction Equipment will discontinue development and
production of its current product line of Volvo-branded backhoe loaders and
motor graders. In the future, these products will instead be manufactured by
Volvo CE’s Chinese company SDLG.
As communicated in conjunction with the report on the third quarter of 2014,
further cost-saving measures will be implemented in Volvo Construction Equipment
(Volvo CE) to adapt the cost structure and to address the profitability of
certain products. A review of the operation has now been performed, resulting in
the decision by Volvo CE to discontinue product development and production of
backhoe loaders and motor graders in Europe and Americas and transfer these
operations to its Chinese company SDLG. Combined with other efficiency
enhancement measures, this will result in a workforce reduction of about 1,000
employees, of whom the majority are in Poland, the US and Brazil.

The current product lines of technologically advanced and high-spec Volvo
-branded backhoe loaders and motor graders have addressed a relatively small
premium segment of the market. SDLG-branded backhoe loaders and motor graders
will better serve customer demands in the large and growing value segment of the
market.

Currently, motor graders are built at Volvo CE’s production sites in
Shippensburg, US, and Pederneiras, Brazil, while backhoe loaders are
manufactured in Pederneiras, Brazil, and Wroclaw, Poland. Ceasing European
production of backhoe loaders will result in the closure of Volvo CE’s
operations in Wroclaw.

The measures within Volvo CE are a part of the series of new activities within
the increased scope of the Group’s Strategic Program 2013-2015, which was
published in conjunction with the report on the third quarter 2014. Combined,
these activities are expected to reduce the Group's structural costs by SEK 3.5
billion. Together with ongoing activities, the ambition in the Strategic Program
is to reduce the Group’s structural costs by SEK 10 billion compared to 2012 and
that all activities are implemented by the end of 2015 with a full-year savings
-effect in 2016. For further information, refer to the Volvo Group’s report on
the third quarter 2014.

November 13, 2014

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