Alfa Laval
- Type
- Technology Company
- Location
- Breda, Netherlands
- Industries
- Alternative proteins, Food processing robotics & machinery, New food processing techniques, Waste efficiency, Bio-energy & biomaterials, Food ingredients & products, Food safety & quality, Supply chain monitoring & traceability
- Technologies
- Microfiltration, Extraction, Power-heating technology, Resource-recovery technology, Water-reuse technology, Process automation, Processing, Circular & resource technologies
About Alfa Laval
Alfa Laval is a global industrial technology company focused on heat transfer, separation, and fluid handling. It serves customers across energy, food, marine, and other process industries with equipment and systems that help control temperature, separate liquids and solids, and move fluids efficiently through industrial processes.
The company positions itself as a partner in process optimization and resource efficiency. Its website emphasizes helping customers unlock the full potential of their resources, improve energy efficiency, support decarbonization, and advance more sustainable production and operations.
Core Values
- Resource efficiency: Alfa Laval repeatedly frames its mission around getting more value from existing resources, reducing waste, and improving process efficiency.
- Sustainability and decarbonization: The company highlights solutions that reduce emissions, recover waste heat, support circularity, and enable cleaner energy and shipping.
- Innovation: Alfa Laval presents itself as a technology leader with long experience in developing new process solutions, including advanced separation, thermal, and fuel-handling technologies.
- Customer partnership: Its messaging stresses working closely with customers, operators, and industry partners to solve process challenges and support business goals.
Unique Aspects
- Long operating history and global scale: Alfa Laval says it was founded more than 140 years ago, has customers in 100 countries, and is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.
- Leadership in disc-stack separation: The company states that it invented the first disc-stack separator and has been developing centrifuge technology for more than a century.
- Strategic academic partnership with Lund University: In 2025, Alfa Laval and Lund University formalized a structured partnership to drive innovation in energy transition, digitalization, and sustainability.
- Support for food-innovation collaboration: Known news also shows Alfa Laval backing a transatlantic collaboration between the Danish Technological Institute and North Carolina State University to accelerate food-production innovation.
- Large-scale industrial footprint: The company reported 2025 annual sales of SEK 69.6 billion and more than 23,670 employees, underscoring its scale in industrial process technology.