Pioneering suspension wins Swedish Steel Prize 2013
This year’s winner of the international Swedish Steel Prize is the American company, Mack Trucks Inc., part of Volvo Group. The prize was awarded for the company’s innovative suspension system, which takes full advantage of the properties of high-strength steel.“Mack Trucks has laid the foundation for a pioneering improvement of a long-established feature of heavy goods vehicles,” says Melker Jernberg, Chair of the jury, and Head of the EMEA business area within SSAB. Road transport using heavy goods vehicles is an essential aspect of developed societies the world over, and even small