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Manufacturing 2025: MINKKINEN, MARCUS
VICE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER, NEW RIVER VALLEY PLANT, VOLVO TRUCKS, DUBLIN
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
Manufacturing 2025: MINKKINEN, MARCUS
VICE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER, NEW RIVER VALLEY PLANT, VOLVO TRUCKS, DUBLIN
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
In September 2024, Minkkinen succeeded Koen Knippenberg, who managed the plant for more than two years before being promoted to senior vice president of group truck operations for Volvo’s North America branch.
A native of Sweden whose father and grandfather worked for Volvo, Minkkinen joined the company in 2004 as a trainee after receiving a degree in engineering at Lund University in Sweden. During that time, he spent several months working at Volvo’s Hagerstown, Maryland, powertrain facility. He returned to Maryland in 2006 as an industrial engineer and later became an engineering manager at the plant.
In 2010, Minkkinen returned to Sweden to fill a similar role, and after a term as vice president of the Hagerstown plant, he moved to the New River Valley plant. In 2022, Minkkinen hosted President Joe Biden at the Hagerstown plant for National Manufacturing Day.
The Dublin facility experienced two waves of layoffs in the first half of 2025, totaling between 430 and 530 employees, Volvo said, due to reduced demand.
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