Alfa Laval
| Alfa Laval AB
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| legal form | Aktiebolag (stock corporation) |
| ISIN | SE0000695876 |
| founding | 1883 |
| Seat |
Lund , Sweden
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| management | Tom Erixon (President and CEO ) |
| Number of employees | approx. 17,000 |
| sales | 40.7 billion Skr |
| Branch | Machine and apparatus construction |
| Website | www.alfalaval.com |
| As of December 31, 2018 | |
Alfa Laval AB is a listed manufacturer of products for material separation , heat transfer and the conveyance of fluids based in Lund / Sweden .
The company is part of the OMX Stockholm 30 Index .
Alfa Laval has 42 production sites (22 in Europe, 10 in Asia, 8 in the US and 2 in Latin America).
history
1883 Gustaf de Laval and Oscar Lamm found the company AB Separator , which manufactures separators. In the same year, De Laval Cream Separator Co. is founded in the USA .
1888 The first pumps are sold. They are used to pump skimmed milk from centrifugal separators.
1889 The German inventor Clemens von Bechtolsheim's patent for conical metal disks is acquired. The use of this so-called Alfa-Disc increases the capacity of separators many times over.
1890 AB Separator introduces the world's first separator to use Alfa disc stack technology. The first milk pasteurizer is introduced.
1910 Gustaf de Laval starts building a milking machine .
1919-1936 Subsidiaries are established in Denmark , South Africa , Finland , Australia , New Zealand , Poland , Yugoslavia and Ireland .
1938 AB Separator introduces its first heat exchanger.
1951 The sale of self-cleaning centrifugal separators and decanter centrifuges begins.
1963 The company changes its name from AB Separator to Alfa-Laval AB. The name "Alfa" is derived from the Alpha Discs and "Laval" from the company founder.
1971 Alfa-Laval acquires a majority stake in the Danish Lavrids Knudsens Maskinfabrik (LKM) , which marks the establishment of Alfa-Laval in the fluid handling sector.
1976 In Sweden, construction of a new marine separator production facility begins in Tumba outside Stockholm .
1981 Alfa Laval strengthens its presence in Japan by increasing its stake in the Japanese company Nagase-Alfa to 70 percent.
1991 Tetra Pak , a global packaging company for the food industry, and the Rausing family take over Alfa Laval.
1993 Alfa Laval becomes an independent industrial group within the Tetra Laval Group. Agricultural machinery and systems are restructured into a new industrial group, Alfa Laval Agri.
1996 A new factory for heat exchangers, fluid handling systems and modules for the food and beverage industry is opened in Kaliningrad in Moscow Oblast (today's Koroljow ) .
2000 The private equity company Industri Kapital buys the Alfa Laval Group.
2002 Alfa Laval is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. In the same year two Danish companies are acquired: Danish Separation Systems A / S , a specialist in membrane filtration for the pharmaceutical and food industries, and the Toftejorg Group , a supplier of tank cleaning systems.
2005 The French company Packinox SA, which offers large, welded plate heat exchangers for oil, gas and refinery applications, is taken over.
2007 The Netherlands- based companies Helpman and Finnish Fincoil are taken over, both suppliers of air heat exchangers. Helpman products are used for commercial refrigeration of food . Fincoil is active in industrial power plant cooling.
2011 Alfa Laval acquires Aalborg Industries and two years later the Norwegian company Frank Mohn , which expands Alfa Laval's presence in the marine and offshore market.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ about-us. www.alfalaval.com, accessed April 23, 2019 .
- ↑ annual-report-2018. In: www.alfalaval.com. Retrieved April 23, 2019 .
- ↑ our-company. In: www.alfalaval.com. Retrieved February 28, 2018 .
- ↑ history-of-alfa-laval. In: www.alfalaval.com. Retrieved February 28, 2018 .