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Alfa Laval

Alfa Laval
Leadership team

Mr. Tom Erixon LL.B, MBA (Pres & CEO)

Mr. Fredrik Ekstrom (Chief Financial Officer)

Mr. Mikael Tydén (Pres of Operations Division)

Products/ Services
Energy Efficiency, Industrial, Machinery Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering, Mining, Test and Measurement
Number of Employees
1,000 - 20,000
Headquarters
Lund, Skane Lan, Sweden
Established
1883
Net Income
500M - 1B
Revenue
Above - 1B
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Overview
Location
Summary
Alfa Laval Corporate AB provides heat transfer, separation, and fluid handling products and solutions worldwide. The company operates in three divisions: Energy, Food & Water, and Marine. It offers oil/gas-fired steam and composite steam boilers, exhaust gas economizer, and ballast water treatment systems, and exhaust gas cleaning products. The company also provides sensing and control, cleaning validation, condition monitoring, agitators, tank, powder mixers, fittings, and tubes, as well as wall mounted cleaning nozzles, rotary jet and heads; and tank accessories and covers. In addition, the company offers centrifugal, rotary lobe, three screw, twin screw, and circumferential piston pumps. Further, the company provides butterfly, control and check, double seal, diaphragm, double seat, regulating, safety, sampling, shutter, single seat, and ball valves. Additionally, the company offers heat exchanger, tube-in-tube heat exchangers, and process shell-and-tube heat exchangers. Furthermore, the company provides finned tube air heat, scraped surface heat exchangers, and various plate heat exchangers, wet surface, and HYAC hybrid air coolers. It also offers decanters and separator related products. The company serves energy, utilities, home, personal care, food, dairy, beverage, marine, transportation, pharmaceutical, biotech, water, and wastewater industries. Alfa Laval Corporate AB was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in Lund, Sweden.
History

Origins and early expansion

Alfa Laval was founded as AB Separator by Swedish inventor Gustaf de Laval and engineer Oscar Lamm in Stockholm in 1883. The De Laval Cream Separator Co., an American subsidiary, was founded the same year.The company’s origin was de Laval’s invention of a continuous milk separator, which he and Lamm had first patented in 1878. Prior to this, dairy producers manually skimmed cream from milk, which was laborious and time-consuming. Capable of handling up to 130 litres per hour, de Laval’s centrifugal separator made this process easier and more efficient.

In 1888, AB Separator also began selling pumps to transport skimmed milk from the separator. In 1890, AB Separator introduced the first continuous separator with disc stacks featuring conical metal discs called Alfa Discs, which increased the separation capacity.AB Separator was a privately held company until 1901, when it was listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. The company continued to expand internationally in the early 1900s, opening subsidiaries in Denmark, South Africa, Finland, Australia, New Zealand, Poland, Yugoslavia and Ireland by 1936.In 1938, AB Separator began manufacturing its first heat exchanger. These were produced in Lund, Sweden, where later became the company’s headquarter.

Name and ownership changes

In 1963, AB Separator changed its name to Alfa-Laval AB, combining the name of the company’s founder with a reference to the Alfa Disc technology in its separators.In 1991, the company returned to private ownership after it was acquired by the Swedish packaging group Tetra Pak. It was then renamed Alfa Laval AB and made into an independent industrial group within the newly formed Tetra Laval Group.Tetra Laval sold a majority stake of Alfa Laval to the Swedish private equity group Industri Kapital in 2000, who purchased the company with the intention of listing it publicly within a five-year period. Alfa Laval returned to the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 2002. As of 2019, Tetra Laval has retained a 29.1% minority stake in the company.

Mission
Our mission is to create better everyday conditions for people. To do so we provide engineering solutions that optimize our customers’ processes, create circular ecosystems and deliver sustainable business.
Vision
Our vision is to be the leading global supplier for MindCraft Solutions™ that create value, enhance quality of life, and help meet the global sustainability goals.
Key Team

Mr. Frank Bolata (Chief Information Officer)

Ms. Gabriella Grotte (Investor Relations Mang.)

Mr. Johan Lundin (Head of Investor Relations)

Ms. Emma Adlerton (Gen. Counsel & Sec. to the Board of Directors)

Ms. Sara Helweg-Larsen (VP of Group Communications)

Mr. Joakim Vilson BSc. Eng. (Sr. VP of Global Sales & Service)

Joakim Tholin (Head of Corp. Devel.)

Recognition and Awards
Alfa Laval has been recognized as an industry leader in Sustainability, Digitalization, and other areas by several awards such as United Nations Climate Change Award, Forbes Global 2000 List, Water Technology Innovation Award and many more.
References
Alfa Laval
Leadership team

Mr. Tom Erixon LL.B, MBA (Pres & CEO)

Mr. Fredrik Ekstrom (Chief Financial Officer)

Mr. Mikael Tydén (Pres of Operations Division)

Products/ Services
Energy Efficiency, Industrial, Machinery Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering, Mining, Test and Measurement
Number of Employees
1,000 - 20,000
Headquarters
Lund, Skane Lan, Sweden
Established
1883
Net Income
500M - 1B
Revenue
Above - 1B
Social Media