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Milestones, deliveries and announcements from Australia’s largest bus manufacturer.
November 15, 2019 | Media Release
Volgren, the country’s largest bus body builder, has celebrated the roll-out of the 5000th bus built at its manufacturing headquarters in Dandenong. The milestone vehicle, an Optimus Low-Floor…
Read moreMay 14, 2019 | Media Release
Volgren, Australia’s largest bus body builder, has put its first ever electric bus into production, beginning the company’s move into zero-emission vehicle technology. The prototype, which will be…
Read moreMarch 29, 2019 | Media Release
Marcopolo SA, owners of Volgren, have appointed Thiago Deiro as the new CEO of Australia’s largest bus body builder, replacing the retiring Peter Dale, who will step down…
Read moreMarch 18, 2019 | Media Release
Volgren, Australia’s largest bus body manufacturer, has signed the biggest bus supply deal in its four-decade history, extending its contract with Volvo and the Public Transport Authority (PTA)…
Read moreDecember 14, 2018 | Media Release
Family-owned New South Wales regional bus operator, Sapphire Coast Buslines will become the first operator in the country to bring Volgren’s new low-floor Urban bus used in rural…
Read moreNovember 9, 2018 | Media Release
Melbourne’s largest bus operator, Ventura Bus Lines, has extended its bus supply agreement with Australia’s largest bus body builder, Volgren. The new agreement covers four years. Under the…
Read moreOctober 10, 2018 | Awards
Volgren has won Supplier of the Year award at the 2018 Australasia Bus Conference hosted by the Bus Industry Confederation (BIC) and the Bus and Coach Association New…
Read moreSeptember 12, 2018 | Media Release
Well over a decade since their inception, Buslink NT’s fleet of low-floor, Volgren-built, wheelchair-accessible school buses remain one of the best examples in Australia of how local conditions…
Read moreAugust 16, 2018 | Media Release
Volgren has become the first Australian manufacturer in the country to successfully deliver a bus body on the new Euro 6 Volvo B5LH Hybrid. Designed and engineered in…
Read moreJuly 30, 2018 | Media Release
Airport transfer operator, Skybus, has ordered 15 new low-floor Optimus buses from Volgren. The 12.5 metre buses to be built on a Man RC-2 chassis will go into…
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