Volvo keeps its servicing environmentally friendly with renewed components
Keeping up with its environmentally friendly approach, the Swedish vehicle manufacturer is recycling scrapped Volvo components with its Greenline initiative.
The initiative should reinforce Volvo’s Exchangeparts system. Under this system used Volvo engines, axles, gearboxes and other components are collected from dealers and reworked exactly to the fresh component standards.
Volvo Greenline renewed component programme’s inspection checks and quality control are as rigorous as those followed for the new components. 12-month warranty, given for new components, is also extended to renewed parts.
Volvo Greenline parts are economically produced and sold at prices much lower than new Volvo component costs.
Volvo S80 Aluminium subframe is one of the largest Greenline Volvo range parts weighing 20kgs. Volvo is able to save large amount of raw material and energy through renewal process which starts with dismantling, blasting, inspecting for cracks and damages before cleansing in hot liquid bath.
The subframe is reassembled with new components after removing old bushings. This gives an average saving of 20 to 30% on a new component. Production of Green subframes is 400 units per year. Remanufacture of these frames cuts back CO2 emission by 54 tonnes.
Other parts recycled in the Greenline process include throttle assemblies, prop-shafts, chassis members, brackets, struts and springs. Volvo has plans to add more components to the renewed parts range.
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