Founded in 1883, it is the world's leading provider of heat exchange, separation and fluid handling solutions, a well-known brand in the international heat exchanger industry, and the world's top supplier of air heat exchangers
Alfa Laval is a leading global solutions provider for a wide range of industries, such as beverages/ Biofuels / Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals / Chemicals / Food / HVAC / Machine Building / Marine & Diesel Power / Metals & Minerals / Metals & Minerals / Metalworking / Oil & Gas / Refineries / Power / Pulp & Paper / Refrigeration & Cooling / Wastewater Treatment .
Our Mission
Continuously optimize the customer's process to achieve the best performance.
3 key technologies
Alfa Laval's core business is based on three key technologies: heat exchange, separation and fluid handling. These three technologies are of great importance to industrial companies in a wide range of industries. Alfa Laval is the world's leading market leader in its business areas.
10 customer departments
Alfa Laval has strengthened its market positioning by identifying 10 customer divisions in recent years. Our customers are involved in a wide variety of industries such as Chemical, Oil & Gas, Pulp & Paper, Wastewater Treatment, Marine, Energy & Food, etc. In order to highlight the user-centric strategy more clearly, these customer divisions are further divided into two divisions – the Processing Technology Division and the Equipment Division – which promote and sell products to specific user groups.
More than 100 countries
Alfa Laval sells its products in nearly 100 countries, with its own sales organization in 50 of them. The company has 42 large production bases (22 in Europe, 10 in Asia, 8 in the United States, and 2 in Latin America) and 70 service centers.
18,000 employees
Alfa Laval currently employs around 18,000 people worldwide – Sweden (2,133), China (2,768), Denmark (1,802), the United States (1,830) and India (1,435).
After 132 years, it is still vibrant
Gustaf de Laval was a great technical genius, and his inventions included a centrifugal separator and the first practical steam turbine. During his lifetime, he registered 92 patents and founded 37 companies. In 1883, he and his partner Oscar Lamm Jr. founded AB Separator, the forerunner of today's Alfa Laval.
Ongoing development work
Alfa Laval's business is based on three key technologies that are leading the world in three key technologies: heat exchange, separation and fluid handling. Continuous product development is indispensable for enhancing competitive advantage. The company invests around 2.5% of its total sales revenue in R&D every year, and releases 35 to 40 new products every year.
Fortune is endless
The user's peace of mind comes from excellent service. For Alfa Laval, "service" is an overarching concept that encompasses everything from providing humble spare parts to working together to maintain product performance. Alfa Laval has a global network of more than 200 skilled service experts in hundreds of locations in more than 50 countries, a range of competitive service solutions and more than 120 years of business and service experience.
