Publicly traded Aktiebolag | |
Traded as | Nasdaq Stockholm: ALFA |
Industry | Manufacturing, engineering and service |
Founded | 1883 |
Headquarters | Lund, Sweden |
Key people
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Tom Erixon (President and CEO), Anders Narvinger (Chairman) |
Revenue | SEK 28.652 billion (2011) |
SEK 4.691 billion (2011) | |
Profit | SEK 3.251 billion (2011) |
Total assets | SEK 34.503 billion (2011) |
Total equity | SEK 19.359 billion (2011) |
Number of employees
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17,309 (Sep 2016) |
Website | www.alfalaval.com |
Alfa Laval AB is a Swedish company, founded in 1883 by Gustaf de Laval and Oscar Lamm. The company, which started in the separation of solutions, now deals in the production of specialized products and solutions for heavy industry. The products are used to heat, cool, separate and transport such products as oil, water, chemicals, beverages, foodstuffs, starch and pharmaceuticals.
Alfa Laval is headquartered in Lund, Sweden and has subsidiary companies in over 35 countries around the world, including South Africa, Denmark, Italy, India, Japan, China, Netherlands, and the United States. In 2016, Alfa Laval had a global workforce of 17,309 employees and revenue of $4,715.96 million. Alfa Laval is a heavy industry company that focuses on the large-scale operations, such as the Marine, Energy, and Food industries. As well as selling equipment, Alfa Laval contracts out to provide individual solutions to the demands of heavy industry, in the form of "Orders".
Alfa Laval is known in the Maritime Industry as producer of maritime equipment. Alfa Laval manufactures valves, pumps, heat exchangers, evaporators, distillers, oil separators, filters, and all other hardware vital to the operation of the a ship’s engine room. As of 2011, Alfa Laval consolidated its Marine, Off-shore, and Diesel divisions into one, Marine & Diesel, division in an effort to simplify logistics and administration of its marine wing.