Alfa Laval Company Description
Alfa Laval is a fount of valves -- and other industrial processing equipment. The company is organized around its three main product lines: separation (centrifuges), fluid handling (pumps and valves), and heat transfer (heat exchangers). Its equipment and services are designed to help optimize processes such as heating, cooling, separating, and transporting products (including oil, water, chemicals, beverages, and foodstuffs). The group introduces 25 to 30 new products each year, and its products are sold worldwide. Alfa Laval counts BASF, Bayer, Cargill, Heineken, and Tetra Laval as customers. Gustav de Laval, who invented the centrifugal separator, founded the company in 1883.
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