Volvo Trucks, IKEA & Raben to Accelerate Zero Emission Transport

Volvo Trucks, IKEA Industry and the Raben Group have signed a collaboration agreement on zero-emission heavy transport. IKEA will introduce heavy electric Volvo trucks for internal transport flows at two of its factories in Zbąszynek in Poland, which will be operated by the Raben Group. Lessons from the pilot will be used for the electrification of transport operations at scale in a larger transport network. Volvo’s heavy electric trucks will be used for transporting goods between two IKEA Industry factories in Poland.Now IKEA Industry, Volvo Trucks and the Raben Group, have joined forces in Poland to deploy zero-emission Volvo FM Electric trucks. The vehicles will be used to handle the internal flow of goods between two IKEA Industry factories located 14 kilometres apart in Zbąszynek and Babimost in western Poland. The trucks will be charged at the IKEA Industry production facilities using renewable electricity from an external source. The first electric truck will begin operation during autumn and the plan is to expand the fleet based on the learnings from the pilot.IKEA is a large transport buyer with more than two million shipments worldwide per year. To reach its strategic climate goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions for product transport by -70% per shipment*, electrification of heavy-duty vehicles is critical. Electrification of transport is one of the solutions to address the root cause of climate change.IKEA Industry is an integrated part of IKEA Supply and IKEA’s in-house manufacturing operations. With its 22 sites in eight countries, IKEA Industry is the world’s largest producer of wooden furniture and employs about 17,500 co-workers.The Raben Group is a logistics provider, which offers comprehensive TFL services: contract logistics, road network (domestic, international and East), Fresh Logistics, FTL & intermodal transport, sea and air freight. It has more than 160 own branches in 15 European countries, and each day it sends over 9,000 trucks out on the road.