Thursday, October 11, 2012

Photos: Volvo unveils $10M expansion

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Company officials said the next expansion will add 18,700-square-foot to the facility at a cost of $2.5 million, creating space for 12 truck bays. Work is slated for completion in the next seven months. It will not result in new jobs, but about 45 current Volvo employees will be relocated from leased space on Gallimore Dairy Road

Volvo Group on Thursday unveiled a $10 million, 40,000-square-foot expansion to its Technical Center and also announced an additional $2.5 million, 18,700-square-foot facility expansion at Volvo’s Greensboro campus. Along with additional testing space and truck bays, the technical center expansion doubled the size of Volvo’s design studio, which supports new truck design and development. Volvo also added to its test track to allow for testing of heavy-duty truck performance. The technical…