Volvo Truck Technology – Integrating a lifecycle perspective in product development

Welcome to our next strategic business intelligence meeting. Our strategic business intelligence meetings bring together key stakeholders to explore emerging trends, monitor developments, and share insights relating to the life cycle perspective. The purpose of these meetings is to advance life cycle thinking and support researchers and practitioners in the field through information sharing and enhanced collaboration. 

Our next guests are Karin de Val and Siri Willskytt from Volvo Group. Their presentation will cover Volvo Groups’ journey with LCA work since the 1990´ until today. The focal point of the talk is on how LCA has an integrated role in product development, as a tool to both enable follow-up and track how we are performing in accordance with our sustainability targets. But also, as a tool to guide and provide directions regarding which choice we should take during the development, and to generate forecasts of the consequences from those decisions of our products in the future. Lastly, the talk shares in sights of how we have tackled the increasing demand of LCA by improving our own LCA processes through different optimizations.

Presenters

Karin de Val is an expert in Sustainability Strategy at Trucks Technology & Industrialization. She holds an MSc in Ecotoxicology and is a board member of the Swedish Life Cycle Center.

Siri Willskytt is an LCA and Circularity Specialist at Trucks Technology & Industrialization. She holds a PhD in Environmental Systems Analysis and an MSc in Environmental Engineering.

Volvo group

The Volvo Group is a world-leading supplier of transport, mobility and construction equipment – ​​complete with connected, financial and maintenance services. Through a three-step strategy of batteries, fuel cells and renewable fuels, we are driving the transition to net-zero emissions by 2040. With a focus on circular solutions and fossil-free value chains, we are shaping the sustainable transport of the future.

Trucks technology & Industrial Division

Trucks Technology & Industrial Division is a central business unit within the Volvo Group responsible for the technical development, product planning and industrial manufacturing of the Group’s heavy-duty vehicles. The division manages the entire chain from research and development (R&D) to purchasing and production. It supplies Volvo’s various truck brands (such as Volvo Trucks, Renault Trucks, Mack and UD Trucks) with technology and components.

This meeting is arranged within the project Innovation cluster for the life cycle perspective, funded by the Swedish Energy Agency and partners in Swedish Life Cycle Center.