The main activity of the company is to own, maintain, protect and preserve the Volvo trademarks ( including Volvo, the Volvo device marks ( grille slash & iron mark ) Volvo Aero and Volvo Penta ) on behalf of its owners and to license these rights to its owners.

* Volvo Aero

* Tomas Bergendahl, MSc, Senior Vice President and CFO Volvo Aero

In July 2012 GKN agreed to acquire the Swedish aerospace components manufacturer Volvo Aero from AB Volvo for £ 633 million ( US $ 986 million ).

F-104 on display outside Volvo Aero

Volvo Aero, develops and manufactures components for aircraft and rocket engines with high technology content in co-operation with the world ’ s leading engine manufacturers.

The Volvo Aero Group has 3, 600 employees and in 2003 had total sales of 0. 9 billion euros.

Today Volvo Aero is a partner in more than ten commercial engine programmes.

Components from Volvo Aero are installed in more than 90 % of all large commercial aircraft engines sold.

On 6 July 2012 Volvo Aero was acquired by the British aerospace manufacturer GKN in a SEK 6. 9 billion deal.

Volvo Aero is a supplier of single-engine systems for military aircraft.

Volvo Aero delivers engine components, mainly complex engine structures like turbine exhaust casings, turbine mid frames, LPT cases, compressor housings, LPT shafts, vanes, and large rotating parts.

Volvo Aero also has a facility in Trollhättan where they do maintenance on aircraft engines and stationary gas turbines.

Volvo Aero manufactures combustion chambers, nozzles and turbines for commercial launch vehicles.

Volvo Aero subsidiaries are located in the United States and Norway, in addition to Volvo's home country, Sweden.

5. 7. 2012: Volvo AB sold Volvo Aero for SEK 6. 9 Billion to GKN.

* Volvo Aero homepage

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Volvo collaborated with high-tech system developer Ohlins Racing AB and shock absorber manufacturer Monroe for the self-adjusting shock absorbers.

Volvo also supplies marine and industrial drive systems, aerospace components and financial services.

It was also in 1969 that Volvo introduced the 164, which shared much of the 140 series structure and styling aft of the windshield while incorporating a 6-cylinder engine, the B30 which was simply a B20 with 2 more cylinders and a few strengthened and enlarged components.

This motivated Helmer Petterson to obtain financial backing from two financial firms with the intention of buying the components directly from Volvo and marketing the car himself.

Volvo Powertrain coordinates Volvo's powertrain activities and supplies the entire Volvo Group with driveline components, such as diesel engines and transmissions, which are either developed and manufactured by Powertrain or purchased.

Ford Focus, Volvo S40 and V50, and Mazda3 share about 60 percent of their parts and components.

The Volvo Group is one of the world's largest suppliers of commercial vehicles with products such as trucks, buses, construction equipment, drive systems for marine and industrial applications, and aircraft engine components.

They shared many components with the already-successful Volvo 480, including floorpan, front and rear suspension, engines, transmission and braking systems.

Others are: The mining company Boliden AB have a standing special permit for 80 ton combinations on select routes between mines in the inland and the processing plant in Boliden, taking a load of 50 ton ore. Volvo has a special permit for a, steering B-trailer-trailer combination carrying two 40 ft containers to and from Gothenburgs harbour and Volvo Trucks factory, all on the island of Hisingen.

The name Volvo was originally registered in May 1911 as a separate company within SKF AB and as a registered trademark with the intention to be used for a special series of ball bearing, but this idea was only used for a short period of time and SKF decided to use " SKF " as the trademark for all its bearing products.

In 1999, Volvo sold its car division Volvo Cars to Ford Motor Company for $ 6. 45 billion.

Volvo stopped posting profits in 2005 and in 2008, Ford decided to sell its interest in Volvo Cars ; in August 2010, Ford completed its sale of Volvo to the parent of Chinese motor manufacturer Geely Automobile for $ 1. 8 billion.

On 28 January 1999, Volvo Group sold its business area Volvo Car Corporation to the Ford Motor Company for US $ 6. 45 billion, with the resulting group largely set on commercial vehicles.

* Volvo Trucks ( midsize-duty trucks for regional transportation and heavy-duty trucks for long distance transportation, as well as heavy-duty trucks for the construction work segment )

* Volvo Buses ( complete buses and bus chassis for city traffic, line traffic and tourist traffic )

* Volvo Penta ( marine engine systems for leisure boats and commercial shipping, diesel engines and drive systems for industrial applications )

The day-to-day work is focused upon maintaining the global portfolio of trademark registrations and to extend sufficiently the scope of the registered protection for the Volvo trademarks.

However, the first modern three point seat belt ( the so-called CIR-Griswold restraint ) used in most consumer vehicles today was patented in 1955 ( US Patent 2, 710, 649 ) by the Americans Roger W. Griswold and Hugh DeHaven, and developed to its modern form by Nils Bohlin for Swedish manufacturer Volvo — who introduced it in 1959 as standard equipment.

In 2011 Volvo also entered the championship, fielding a one-car team as an evaluation for a possible heavier commitment to the series.

* Volvo B52 engine, a group of Volvo engines

* 1993: Pump nozzle injection introduced in Volvo truck engines.

The only exceptions to this are Volvo and its subsidiary Mack Trucks, which are available with their own engines.

Straight-6 engines are used in some models from BMW, Ford Australia, Chevrolet, GMC, Toyota, Suzuki and Volvo Cars.

Exceptions to the shift to V6 engines include BMW, which specializes in high-performance straight-sixes used in a lineup of front-engine / rear-wheel-drive vehicles, Volvo, which designed a compact straight-six engine / transmission package to fit transversely in its larger cars, and the Australian Ford Falcon, which still uses a straight-six configuration.

Since Volvo introduced their Volvo 850 in 1992, much of their lineup has switched to straight-five power, with their engines also seeing use in Ford's Focus ST and RS models.

All of the inline five engines used by Volvo and Ford are built at the Volvo Skövde engine plant in Skövde, Sweden.

The first PRV engines were officially introduced on 3 October 1974 in the Volvo 264.

Volvo began to withdraw from the PRV consortium in the late 1980s, shifting its powerplant reliance onto in-house inline engines.

The engines tested was Volvo B18, Ford V4, Triumph 1300, Lancia V4 engine, Opel, Volkswagen and Hillman Imp.

These diminutive carbs familiar to any English sports car fan improved the acceleration and overall performance of the B4B which in turn accomplished Volvo's corporate desire to make the PV444 cars powered by these engines more attractive to the American audience whose attention Volvo hoped to gain.

These engines were fitted to the PV444 in its final two years ( 1957 and 1958 ), the Volvo PV544 in its 1958 introduction, as well as the companion estate and van versions known as Volvo P445, Volvo P210, and Volvo Duett.

* List of Volvo engines

Originally it used the 4-cylinder Volvo 1800 cc unit with overdrive gearbox and De Dion rear axle but in 1966 this changed to Ford engines of 1500 cc, 1600 cc and 1650 cc and a coil-sprung live rear axle, with another change In 1969 to the Ford Essex V4 engine from the Ford Corsair and Capri Mk1.

In 1969 the plywood chassis was replaced by steel, which shortened production time and allowed use of more powerful 6-cylinder engines, with a choice of, 3-litre Ford Essex V6 engine ( UK ),, 3-litre Volvo straight 6 or more rarely the Triumph 2. 5-litre straight 6.

Cars for the North Americas market had Volvo in-line 6 cyl 3 Ltr engines coupled to Borg-Warner automatic transmissions, tubular steel space frames, a higher ride height and no headlight covers, in order to get US road certification.

The inline-5 engine in the 2. 5 TL competed with similar 5-cylinder engines offered in Audi and Volvo models.