Shaping the future at Elmia Wood

MEq
By MEq June 13, 2017 17:20

Shaping the future at Elmia Wood

Volvo Construction Equipment, Volvo Penta, and Volvo Trucks joined forces to show that they provide an all-round offer for forestry customers, at Elmia Wood international forestry trade fair in Sweden.

Volvo CE: moving ahead
Volvo Construction Equipment has a range of products for excavating and earthmoving, as well as building forest roads and working with timber yards. It offers equipment and features tailored to the forestry industry, including: the L180 High-Lift, a wheel loader with excellent reach capabilities for optimum productivity; and the patented torque parallel (TP) linkage that enables the loader arms to remain perfectly parallel throughout the lifting range, thereby ensuring exceptional load stability.
Volvo CE also displayed the L120H and L150H large wheel loaders, the ECR235EL crawler excavator and the ECR88D compact excavator.

Volvo Penta: powering forward
Volvo Penta manufactures a range of engines that power machinery for harvesting and forwarding, wood chipping and shredding, land clearing and mulching. Fuel efficiency, excellent performance and load acceptance, and ease of installation are benefits that forestry customers can access across the range of engines. Volvo Penta displayed engines that are optimized for the needs of today and tomorrow, including a Stage IV D16 model, which has high power density and is ideal for many wood processing applications. The company also revealed a new engine in its EU Stage V range, which offers all the benefits of its leading Stage V concept.

“We are working with an increasing number of forestry customers,” says Johan Carlsson, chief technology officer at Volvo Penta. “The feedback of both OEMs and operators is helping us to develop products to suit their needs. In such a diverse industry as forestry, our engines need to provide the appropriate performance both for driving a machine and powering its particular forestry operations.

Volvo Trucks: efficient transportation
Volvo Trucks makes a range of trucks that provide efficient transportation of timber with optimized drivelines and features. Features include: Volvo Dynamic Steering, which reduces strain on the driver’s neck and shoulders, for optimum stability and control; the new I-Shift gearbox with crawler gears, that makes starting from standstill with heavy loads much easier (and also allows cruising speed at lower revs, to save fuel).
In addition, the Tandem axel lift also improves fuel economy as well as boosting maneuverability when driving unloaded; and the Stretch brake prevents jack-knifing when driving downhill on a slippery road by applying braking pulses to the trailer.

MEq
By MEq June 13, 2017 17:20