Torslandaverken
The Torslanda Works (or Torslandaverken in Swedish), is one of the largest production facilities of Volvo Cars and is located in Torslanda on the island of Hisingen, about 12 km north west of Gothenburg city centre. The plant marked fifty years of operation on April 24, 2014.[1] under the motto "Increased capacity – for ever-higher quality."[1]
History
Success and expansion in the latter 1950s led management to begin planning for the Torslanda Plant in 1959 in a rural area that had been intended by city planners as a future industrial use. As well, infrastructure had already been in place, the port and the open sea were nearby, and the city of Göteborg’s airport was also located in Torslanda.
Containing 200,000 square metres of factory floorspace at its inception, production capacity was originally planned at 110,000 cars a year in single-shift operation, with the possibility of increasing to 150,000 cars in two-shift operation. The annual production record from 1973, when 178,000 cars left the factory, still held, as of 2004.
The plant was inaugurated on Friday 24 April 1964, with production beginning in the TA plant (press-shop/body production factory), the TB plant (paintshop) and the TC plant (final assembly). Production on a smaller scale had actually begun in 1962, when approximately a third of the factory was ready to assemble Amazons.[2]
Volvo’s President Gunnar Engellau, Doctor of Engineering
The first car manufactured was an
Production ceased in Volvo Lundby plant in 1973 with the demise of the
Originally employing about 2500 people the plant became Sweden’s largest workplace.[1] Currently, a workforce of about 5000 can produce the current capacity of 170,000 cars. By 1998, the plant received carefully coordinated parts deliveries from the nearby supplier park in Arendal.[3]
By 2014,
Railway access
The Torslanda Works is connected to the Swedish national railway network via the Gothenburg Harbour Line (sv:Göteborgs hamnbana), which branches off from the Bohus Line after the Marieholm Bridge (sv:Marieholmsbron).
References
- ^ a b c Volvo Car Corporation (15 April 2004). "From Mass-Market Cars to Niche Sports Utility Vehicles - The Volvo Torslanda Plant Turns 40". www.swedespeed.com. Swedespeed. Retrieved 2017-10-05.
- ^ Björklund, Bengt, ed. (June 1962). "Branschen i blickpunkten" [Focus on the Industry]. Illustrerad Motor Sport (in Swedish). No. 6. Lerum, Sweden. p. 34.
- ^ Volvo Car Corporation (June 1998). "Volvo's supplier parc for the Torslanda plant". Retrieved 2018-01-01.
- ^ a b http://teknikensvarld.se/tillverkningen-av-nya-volvo-xc90-har-paborjats-172843/. Teknikensvarld
- ^ http://www.automotorsport.se/artiklar/nyheter/20140424/volvo-okar-kapaciteten-i-torslanda-till-300000-bilar-per-ar. Auto Motor und Sport