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Volgren

Locality: Dandenong, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 9791 4255

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25.01.2022 You can read all about our parent company Marcopolo in this great feature story from Australasian Bus & Coach.

24.01.2022 As more travel options become available, we're looking forward to seeing more SkyBuses on Melbourne roads. Here's a vehicle we delivered to SkyBus back in 2014. It's an articulated low-floor city bus built on a MAN A24 NG 323F.

24.01.2022 Transdev have announced a new two-year trial of an electric bus in South East Queensland with the Queensland Government. The Volgren Optimus e-bus will be charged using Transdev’s green mobility megawall- at their Capalaba depot. The megawall consists of 10 Tesla Powerwall batteries for 135kW storage capacity fed by 250 solar panels that harvest an average of 438kWh a day. https://thedriven.io//transdev-to-trial-100-solar-powered/

22.01.2022 Lowest lifetime cost guaranteed.. In 2016, Monash University researchers investigated life cycle cost differences between Volgren bodied buses and others in the Australian market.

22.01.2022 Since 1977, we’ve used Swiss Co-Bolt aluminium technology to manufacture Volgren bus bodies. It’s one of the fundamental reasons our vehicles have a longer working life and shorter downtime. A vehicle that is lighter, stronger and safer.

22.01.2022 Take a drive in Marcopolo's new look Audace 1050. The Audace 1050 delivers affordable luxury that can be customised to an operator’s needs. https://www.busnews.com.au//video-review-marcopolo-audace-

20.01.2022 For more than 40 years, we've built our buses with a strong focus on Australian materials and labour. Today, the Volgren bus you buy or ride on will be made from 90% local content. It's a number we're incredibly proud of.

20.01.2022 Last month we delivered two brand new Optimus buses on a MAN Truck and Bus Australia & New Zealand RC2 chassis to Queensland-based operator Surfside Buslines. The Volgren-bodied, low entry/low floor vehicles will go into service on the Gold Coast and the NSW Tweed Shire.

19.01.2022 To celebrate the new Volgren-bodied Scania Hybrid for Ventura Bus Lines; Victoria's Transport Minister Ben Carroll MP and local member Gabrielle Williams MP visited our Dandenong facility last Friday. A great opportunity to talk about local jobs and local content. #volgrenbuses #scaniahybrid #venturabuses

18.01.2022 Our Volgren bodied, low-floor, seatbelted school buses are proving popular in rural and regional areas. Here’s a few of our past deliveries to customers Busways and Sapphire Coast Buslines.

18.01.2022 Last month we had the great pleasure of delivering a Volgren Endura School Bus to Newman's Bus Service in Bathurst. Built on a Scania K310 Euro 5 - this will be Newman's first ever Volgren and their first Scania Group Australia chassis. Enjoy and safe travelling. L to R: John Allen, Volgren, Frank (one of Newman's bus drivers) and Logan Hoser, Scania.

18.01.2022 A great achievement by Volvo Buses Asia Pacific who have delivered their 1000th bus to PTA.

16.01.2022 Clayton Nel, our Queensland and Western Australian Operations Manager in front of the first Queensland built articulated Scania / Optimus for Victorian customer, Ventura Bus Lines. #Volgrenbuses #localcontent

15.01.2022 Our team in Perth are closing in on 2000 buses built at our manufacturing facility in Malaga. Peter McCrory, regional sales & contract manager and John Petit, production manager are just two of the 60 + staff in the West helping build first-class buses, every day.

14.01.2022 Here's a glimpse of our first Transport for New South Wales Panel 3-compliant Optimus vehicles prepared for Dion's Bus Service in the Illawarra. Stay tuned next month for an in-depth story on the new vehicles, Panel 3 specifications and Dion's Bus Service.

14.01.2022 We recently sat down with all round top bloke and Volgren Sales Executive, Jim Pittas. For Jim, success in sales boils down to being easy to talk to, a good listener and the ability to build long-lasting relationships. http://volgren.com.au/huge-career-shift-uncovered-sales-su/

13.01.2022 Last year we worked with our operator partner CDC Victoria on an amazing video showcasing the journey of our hybrid vehicles from body fit-out in Dandenong to CDC's Wyndham depot. Enjoy!

13.01.2022 Our Volgren Eagle Farm team recently handed over another bus to BusQLD. Built on a Volvo B8 E6 chassis, this 12.5m, two door route bus was delivered to the Westside depot. Pictured (Left to right) Geoffrey Boyd, Garage Manager, Leonie Conyers and Kevin Benat from Volvo, and Brian Weller and Stewart Topping, Volgren.

12.01.2022 Here’s a shot of the 40th Volgren-bodied, hybrid bus delivered to CDC Victoria by our chassis partner Volvo. All 50 hybrid buses for Public Transport Victoria are being built in Dandenong - securing jobs and creating the next generation of environmentally friendly buses.

12.01.2022 Great to see two of our adult apprentices turned field technicians from Volgren Eagle Farm featured in Australasian Bus & Coach https://www.busnews.com.au//volgren-bus-apprentices-highli

12.01.2022 We've been manufacturing buses in Australia for more than 40 years, and two of our people have been there pretty much from the start. Together, Ross Herring and Peter Bromley have notched up more than 80 years of service with Volgren. You can read their fascinating stories below. https://www.busnews.com.au//volgren-bus-veterans-celebrate

12.01.2022 Here’s a shout out to the many Volgren After Sales personnel dedicated to keeping our operator partners on the road in four different states. Volgren employs around 50 After Sales staff and we have 12 mobile service vehicles servicing Vic, Qld, WA and NSW.

12.01.2022 A few years back we delivered two articulated buses to Nara Kotsu Bus Lines located in the South of Japan, near Osaka. The 18-metre long low entry buses were built on the Scania K360UA E6. #Australianmanufacturing #Volgren #Optimusbus

11.01.2022 @VicGovAu is getting on with the job on future proofing Victoria's bus network. @BenCarollMP announced this year's Budget will invest $20 million towards a three year trial of zero-emission buses across Victoria - delivering reliable, clean transport for passengers and local jobs in manufacturing. Here's a clip of yesterday's announcement made on board Volgren's first ever electric vehicle. https://twitter.com/9NewsMelb/status/1327874621803212800

10.01.2022 Delighted to see our parent company Marcopolo on the front cover of Australasian Bus & Coach (August issue). Stay tuned for the full online story later this week. Pictured: New G7 Paradiso 1600 Low Driver (LD)

10.01.2022 It's always a privilege to have our vehicles featured in Australasian Bus & Coach, especially a cover story. Big thanks to our friends at Transdev Australasia who recently launched Australia's first 100% solar powered, full size electric bus (Volgren-BYD D9RA) in Brisbane. Photo credit: Nick O’Sullivan https://www.busnews.com.au/industr//abc-issue-406-out-now

10.01.2022 Here's our first ever vehicle to enter the Japanese market. The articulated low-entry Optimus was one of four delivered to Niigata Kotsu in 2015. Chassis Scania K360UA E6

09.01.2022 A new year brings new ideas and new opportunities, but one thing that remains exactly the same for Volgren is bus deliveries - and lots of them. Here are just two of many more: an Audace that went to Mareeba in the Atherton Tablelands for our customer Bambino; and an Endura school bus that went to Surfside in Tweed Heads.

09.01.2022 Last week, Volgren delivered the final bus of an agreement with Brisbane City Council that has lasted 12 years and incorporated almost 900 vehicles. The handover event featured the last of the locally built buses to leave the company’s Eagle Farm facility the 882nd delivered to Council as well as the very first bus, a Volvo B7RLE, built in 2009.

08.01.2022 The very first Transport for New South Wales Panel 3-compliant buses will take to the road this month for Dion's Bus Service in the Illawarra - and they're Volgrens! Australasian Bus & Coach reveals the full story behind these vehicles, which possess the most rigorous fire safety specifications in Australia. https://www.busnews.com.au//illawarra-family-operator-to-r

08.01.2022 Sticking with our buses supplied to the Public Transport Authority of Western Australia - here’s a few more of our buses getting around the streets of Perth.

08.01.2022 Last year we celebrated a big milestone - 40 years of building bus bodies. To mark the occasion we pulled together some important numbers to help explain our story.

08.01.2022 Towards the end of this year Volgren Perth will close in on 2000 buses locally built for the Public Transport Authority of Western Australia (PTA). Our partnership with the PTA is one of Australia’s longest bus partnerships and one we’re incredibly proud of.

06.01.2022 Nick Carnie's Volgren story begins not on an assembly line or in a meeting with an engineer but at a university. It was while completing his Bachelor of Industrial Design at Monash University Art Design & Architecture that Nick was first introduced to our flagship bus the Optimus. http://volgren.com.au/design-graduate-engineering-leader/

05.01.2022 These striking yellow Optimus bodied, Scania route buses are heading to our regional customer Newton's Bus Service. Proudly serving locals throughout Echuca, Moama and Rochester, Newton’s purchased their first Volgren in 2008. #localmanufacturing #Volgrenbuses #regionalbusinesses

04.01.2022 It's been a big couple of weeks talking about local manufacturing and jobs. Fantastic to have Anthony Albanese Mark Dreyfus and Julian Hill MP tour our Dandenong factory this week. #volgrenbus

04.01.2022 Well done to TransLink and Brisbane City Council staff who last week celebrated 20 years of Brisbane's South East Busway. This crucial piece of infrastructure plays a huge part in Brisbane's public transport network. https://www.busnews.com.au//brisbane-busway-celebrates-20-

02.01.2022 For bus people, by bus people.

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01.01.2022 Here's a shot of our Volgren Eagle Farm team handing over a Volgren Optimus (12.5mt) on a Volvo B8 Euro 6 chassis to valued partner Bus QLD. In picture (left to right): Geoffrey Boyd, Bus QLD Workshop Manager, Stewart Topping, Volgren Contracts Manager, Tony Browne, Volvo and Brian Weller, Volgren After Sales.