Volvo Construction Equipment is the oldest industrial company in
the world still active in the field of construction machinery.
Today, our products are leaders in many world markets. As you will
find out when exploring this site, there are reasons for that.
In the mid-1800s, the old agricultural society underwent
far-reaching industrial development. Homesteads all over the nation
seethed with an eager entrepreneurial spirit. Three energetic
technical talents in particular found the climate favourable for
their ideas and innovations.
They had certain things in common - their technical genius, their
enthusiasm - and the fact that all three were sons of clergymen.
Johan Theofron Munktell and the brothers Jean and Carl Gerhard
Bolinder built up the company of Bolinder-Munktell. Today, this is
Volvo Construction Equipment, which combines state-of-the-art
technology with more than 170 years of technical and industrial
traditions.
Welcome to explore the many interesting and innovative products
manufactured during the years. From the first simple foundry
products to the complex and highly advanced products of today.
From the beginning, in 1832, the company produced on demand from
the costumers like simple tools for lathes, grinders and iron
chests.
In the 1850s Munktells started producing its own products like
steam engines and in 1853 the first Swedish steam locomotive was
produced. However the big seller starting the same year was the
locomobile.
In 1906 the first of our company's many construction equipment
products saw the light of day, the steam roller.
Following the steam roller was the first Swedish farm tractor
that came a few year later in 1913. Many tractor models followed and
became the base for construction equipment like motor graders, wheel
loaders, articulated haulers, backhoe loaders and forestry equipment
etc.
Very early in both the Bolinder company as well as Munktells
engines were a large part of the production. Thanks to this
engineering history, manufacturing engines and other main components
for farm tractors and all following descendents have always been a
strong suit and is one of the main reasons why Volvo products have
been met with such success through the years.
