LYON, France—Engineers at the Volvo Trucks plant here use 3D printing to create a variety of custom tools.

COLUMBIA, SC—South Carolina is a finalist for Volvo’s first North American assembly plant. North Carolina and Kentucky also are pursuing the Swedish carmaker’s plant.

GOTHENBURG, Sweden—Volvo Car Corp. is considering locating an assembly plant in the southern United States. The automaker is reportedly negotiating with Kentucky, North Carolina and South Carolina about incentives that could be offered for a plant.

DUBLIN, VA—Volvo’s New River Valley assembly plant in is now completely powered by methane gas from nearby landfills.

Today’s car buyers typically order a number of custom options for their vehicles at the time of purchase. In turn, the automaker must identify and track each vehicle throughout the production process to ensure that all options are installed. Volvo Car Corp. uses RFID tags to meet this challenge.

DUBLIN, VA—Volvo Trucks North America says it will invest $69 million in improvements at its New River Valley plant in Dublin.

STOCKHOLM—Volvo plans to invest $11 billion to establish new plants and develop new products with a focus on new lineup of advanced power trains.

STOCKHOLM—Volvo Cars is best known in the United States for safe cars built in Sweden. But CEO Hakan Samuelsson says he is looking at the pros and cons of bolstering the company’s U.S. product lineup with smaller vehicles made in China.

HAGERSTOWN, MD—Volvo will invest $30 million to expand its power train assembly plant here.

STOCKHOLM—Volvo has developed a new concept for lightweight structural energy storage components, in a bid to enhance the use of energy for future electrified vehicles. The new component includes carbon fibers, nano structured batteries and super capacitors.