Volvo Construction Equipment's site in Bra?s, Sweden, completed its journey towards becoming carbon dioxide (CO2) neutral. It is the first construction equipment production facility in the world to be powered entirely by renewable energy. The 45,000 sq m site which specialises in the design and manufacture of articulated haulers is now powered entirely by wind, biomass and hydropower.

This achievement follows in the footsteps of the Volvo Group Truck facility in Ghent, Belgium, which set the standard for emissions-free industrial manufacturing in 2007. And just as Ghent became the first carbon neutral facility in the automotive sector, Bra+?s too becomes the first in its respective industry.

Bra?s' first step towards carbon neutrality began in 1999, when it commissioned local energy supplier V?xj? Energi AB to install a district heating plant, fuelled by wood chips, to provide central heating for its employees and the town's residents. Bra?s then joined a Volvo Group initiative in 2007 that saw it switch to green electricity.