Volvo Trucks North America (VTNA) is helping the communities in which its painters live and painting through the generation of non-public protective devices (PPE) for medical services in the region and through donations to non-profit organizations.
“Our workers and communities are incredibly critical to Volvo Trucks,” said Peter Voorhoeve, president of VTNA. “We need to do what we can in the existing situation, whether designing and producing critical PPE or through monetary or in-kind donations, and we are very proud of our workers who have played such a critical role in those efforts.” “
Three services supporting VTNA have been stepped up to manufacture PPE for local medical services, including: the Technical Center in Greensboro, North Carolina; New River Valley Manufacturing Plant (NRV), where all Volvo trucks for North America, founded in Dublin, Virginia, meet; and the Volvo Group powertrain facility, where the North American powertrain is joined, founded in Hagerstown, Maryland. Using existing technology, each site has changed spaces that now bring together PPE types.
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At the NRV truck factory in Dublin, a team of painters created several iterations of the design of a face protector, until one of them inspired local medical professionals and met their requirements. NRV is also producing an ear protector, with the message “Heroes at Work” embedded in the design as a sign of appreciation to those who paint with patients. To date, NRV has delivered approximately 650 face screens, ear protectors and N95 masks to: LewisGale Hospital in Pulaski, Va., Twin Counties Hospital, Galax, Va., VCU Medical Center in Richmond, Va., and emS fireplace and set departments in Pulaski County, Virginia.
“The face protector is one of the most difficult devices to locate in our region,” said Franky Marchand, vice president and general manager of NRV. “I am incredibly proud of the ingenuity and will of our painters, and even their families, to have made their paintings to create those headbands, illustrating the voluntary attitude we expect from our NRV painters.”
At Volvo Powertrain’s Hagerstown facility, engineers used existing designs and began printing 3-D headbands and ear protectors for facial protectors, piloted and reviewed through site painters until local professionals met. Employees who paint from home and have their own three-dimensional printers also print PPE. A total of 700 facials and earmuffs were delivered to the Meritus Health Center in Hagerstown, WellSpan Waynesboro Hospital in Pennsylvania, the local Homewood Retreat Center and the site’s Family First Medical Center – Pharmacy.
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Volvo PowerTrain is also recently committed to delivering healthy snacks each week at the Hagerstown YMCA, which has a mandate to provide child care to fitness professionals and first responders until the end of the COVID-19 crisis.
“The ingenuity of hagerstown plant workers has never been more dazzling than COVID-19,” said Marcus Minkkinen, vice president of transmission system production at the Hagerstown transmission train plant. “We are pleased to be able to help our network through the teamwork of our workers and the production of PPE that is so important in this period.”
In Greensboro, North Carolina, intermediate technical workers use 3-d printers and 3-d stereolithography (SLA) systems to produce facials and hearing protectors. About 1,000 pieces were delivered to Cone Health in Greensboro. Previously, the company donated several thousand OF PPE to Cone Health, such as protective goggles, gloves and various types of masks from its internal stock. The Volvo Group also recently donated $40,000 to the Greensboro Virus Relief Fund, created through United Way, the City of Greensboro and the Greater Greensboro Community Foundation to local youth and families affected by the virus. Volvo also donated $20,000 to the Out of the Garden Project, a nonprofit organization committed to the food insecurity of others in north Carolina’s Piedmont Triad region.
“It’s wonderful to see the dynamism and commitment of our workers at various Volvo facilities in the U.S., which are partnering with percentage practices and making a joint contribution to local communities,” Voorhoeve added.
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The tug-of-war between negative influences on the business environment and road transport reached a tipping point at the end of June, however, the escalation of new COVID-19 instances threatens to oppose this nascent recovery, according to ACT Research.
According to ACT Research’s latest report, the fact that more people and politicians take COVID-19’s risk more seriously is a volatile economic path.
The monthly report includes a summary of high-level forecasts, complete with transportation data to be used through advertising vehicle broker executives, review of high-level considerations such as rental indices, cargo segments, heavy vehicles, and middleweights, the U.S. general market. For used trailers. truck sales data and a review of U.S. macroeconomics.
“While the virus broke out in the weeks after Memorial Day and was exacerbated until July 4, segments of the economy will be deactivated and then reactivated as government paintings to involve the development of the spread of the disease,” said Kenny Vieth, ACT. president and senior analyst. “While we expect statewide closures to be more likely at the time, we believe that the number of cases in Sunbelt’s primary states increases the threat of chain-of-origin disruptions if one of those states is closed for several weeks.” “
In addition, ACT Research recently launched its latest monthly report on Transport Digest, which states that the tug-of-war between positive and negative influences on the business environment and road transport reached a point in late June, but a new escalation COVID-19 instances since mid-June threaten to oppose this nascent recovery.
“The sudden surprise of the COVID-19 recession brought the market to the edge of the cliff in March and April, but the uptick in the economy and transport in May and June was almost as immediate as it was brutal,” Vieth said. “Recognizing that we are at a crossroads, we can maintain the positive momentum of more than two months, although it depends on the existing trajectory of the spillover curve, long-term political responses, adjustments affecting the production of key goods, and the activities of the distribution industry and the foreign economy, to name a few.”
“Economic reports published in early June described an economy recovering at a supposedly more powerful rate than expected, encouraging an air of optimism about the speed of activity,” Vieth added. “Unfortunately, towards the end of June, a resurgence of COVID-19 in many states increased the specter of additional closures and an imaginable acceleration of layoffs, highlighting the uncertainty that hides the commercial outlook.”
In the popularity of the virus, ACT Research has created a COVID-19 Market Watch website to track the high-frequency and macroeconomic indicators of the shipping market.
However, Vieth noted that the pandemic is not the only concern, despite its higher turnover.
“The U.S. electricity sector remains vulnerable, the industry’s biggest tensions with China are another consideration, as well as the restructuring of the retail sector, and from there we can’t see potential disruptions similar to advertising of genuine goods, as well as the general credit market situations that may present dangers on the horizon.” Array said.
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