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▲ Magnus Olsson, Vice President and Plant Manager
When Swedish King Gustaf VI Adolf inaugurated Volvo’ s Torslanda plant in 1964, it represented the biggest industrial investment in Swedish history. Sixty years later, the facility remains Volvo’ s largest plant, producing 300,000 cars annually with 6500 employees across three shifts. Now it’ s undergoing an even more dramatic transformation: a SEK 10 billion investment to become the company’ s primary electric vehicle production hub. Starting this spring, Torslanda will anchor Volvo Cars’ fully electric future, as the foundation for manufacturing the next generation of
EVs built on the company’ s new Scalable Product Architecture 3( SPA3) platform.
The scale of this investment and project is impressive.“ We had four years to prepare and implement a plan of how to continue to manufacture 6000 cars per week in parallel to rebuilding the complete plant,” begins Magnus Olsson, Vice President and Plant Manager at Volvo Car Torslanda.“ We started by creating an open space and in that we rebuilt one fourth of the assembly plant – new lines, renovated floor, upgraded roof and so on, and then moved onto the next empty space.”
The transformation introduces new and more sustainable technologies and
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