Volvo Car group has added a third shift at its Torslanda plant in Sweden, which has created 1,500 new jobs in the plant.
The third shift will operate at night and will be responsible for the production of XC90 seven-seater vehicle.
The company expects the creation of new jobs for suppliers and other businesses in the Gothenburg and Western Sweden regions with the expansion.
Volvo highlighted that with the additional workforce at the Torslanda plant, the company has 17,300 employees in Sweden out of which 4,800 people are employed at the Torslanda plant, and 13,500 in Gothenburg plant.
The company has presently received 30,000 pre-orders for the car and Volvo expects to produce around 50,000 new XC90s this year, which will be exported to the US and China, where demand for the vehicle is high.
Volvo also said that the new XC90 is the first car to embrace Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) which is likely to become the base of next generation Volvo models.
