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Volvo Cars’ Swedish engine plant is its first climate-neutral manufacturing site

Volvo Cars’ engine factory in Skövde, Sweden, has become the company’s first climate-neutral manufacturing plant, having switched to renewable heating as of 1 January 2018. The achievement is an important addition to Volvo Cars’ broader efforts in minimising its environmental footprint. Along with its plans to electrify all new Volvo cars launched from 2019, climate-neutral manufacturing operations will significantly reduce the company’s overall carbon footprint, supporting global efforts to tackle climate change.

Skövde is the first plant in Volvo Cars’ global manufacturing network to reach this status, which marks a significant step towards the company’s vision of having climate-neutral global manufacturing operations by 2025. Skövde also becomes one of only a few climate-neutral automotive plants in Europe.

A new agreement between Volvo Cars and the local provider ensures that all heating supplied to the Skövde plant is generated from waste incineration, biomass and recycled bio-fuels. Since 2008, along with the company’s other European plants, its Skövde site’s electricity supply already comes from renewable sources.

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