Future project: Volvo Trucks, Ghent

The Swedish Volvo Group is one of the leading manufacturers of trucks, buses, earthmoving machines, engines and drives for pleasure and commercial vessels as well as industrial applications. The first Volvo cars came off the assembly line in 1927. Volvo Trucks has been at home in Belgium since 1964. Initially, production took place near Brussels until a new plant near Ghent was inaugurated in 1975. Over the years, the facility has expanded to include new activities, such as tire fitting. The Volvo Fitting Centre assembles tires on rims for its own production in Ghent, but also supplies the wheels for the truck plants in Tuve, Kaluga, Blainville and for the bus plants in Sweden and Poland. Later, the cab finishing facility was added, where “naked” cabs produced at Volvo’s cab plant in Sweden are finished or upholstered before being assembled on the truck chassis, manufactured in Ghent.

Today, the Ghent facility is the Volvo Group’s largest truck plant in the world. Volvo’s entire European heavy truck range is produced there and exported around the world. more than 40,000 cabs and trucks are produced annually in Ghent and more than 700,000 wheels are assembled. In the fall of 2018, the millionth truck rolled off the line in Ghent.

Winlock will install two gates at the logistics site with a fire rating of 120 minutes and WIPO.

Thank you, Alheembouw and Volvo Group!