VOLVO Construction Equipment and VT LeeBoy have finalised a strategic alliance agreement for LeeBoy to supply certain pavers and road wideners to Volvo dealers under the Blaw-Knox brand. LeeBoy will also take full responsibility for product support of these machines, including the existing field population.

The equipment will be marketed under the Blaw-Knox brand under a five-year brand licensing agreement with Volvo Construction Equipment and distributed through Volvo road machinery dealers who will thus maintain access to these models in order to continue serving their customers in a variety of road development operations.

“The agreement with LeeBoy enables Volvo to concentrate its road machinery technical and engineering expertise and production operations on high-volume Volvo paving, compaction and motor grader equipment that serves our industrial and commercial customer bases,” said Göran Lindgren, president of Volvo Construction Equipment North America. “In addition, this strong relationship fosters other growth opportunities for the Blaw-Knox brand, which will give Volvo Construction Equipment dealers in North America, Australia and New Zealand access to the broadest product offering of any manufacturer in the asphalt paving industry.”

Production of upgraded and redesigned Blaw-Knox road wideners (models RW100 and RW195D) and pavers (models PF150 and PF161) is expected to begin within the next few months at LeeBoy’s US production facilities in Lincolnton, North Carolina.

Volvo Construction Equipment acquired the Blaw-Knox product line in its purchase of the Ingersoll Rand road machinery business in 2007.