Alfa Laval wins biofuel order in Brazil, value SEK 90 million

Alfa Laval – a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling – has won an order for process equipment to a number of ethanol plants in Brazil. The customer is one of the largest suppliers of ethanol plants in the world. The order includes both high speed separators and plate heat exchangers to an order value of about SEK 90 million. About SEK 15 million of the order value was booked end of March, 2008. Delivery is mainly scheduled for 2008.

“We have been active in the Brazilian biofuel market for more than thirty years and this order reinforces our position as one of the major providers of key products to the growing Brazilian biofuel industry,” says Lars Renström, CEO and President of the Alfa Laval Group.

Did you know that about 2/3 of Alfa Laval’s annual sales 2007 comes from areas that contribute to a better environment? Heat transfer, i.e. energy efficiency and energy saving, represents more than 50 percent of the Alfa Laval sales. Separation technology represents close to 25 percent, mainly cleaning of fluids and gases. Also within Alfa Laval’s fluid handling technology you find examples of activities that contribute to a better environment, such as tank cleaning equipment that minimizes the water consumption.



About Alfa Laval
Alfa Laval is a leading global provider of specialized products and engineering solutions based on its key technologies of heat transfer, separation and fluid handling.
The company’s equipment, systems and services are dedicated to assisting customers in optimizing the performance of their processes. The solutions help them to heat, cool, separate and transport products in industries that produce food and beverages, chemicals and petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, starch, sugar and ethanol.
Alfa Laval’s products are also used in power plants, aboard ships, in the mechanical engineering industry, in the mining industry and for wastewater treatment, as well as for comfort climate and refrigeration applications.
Alfa Laval’s worldwide organization works closely with customers in nearly 100 countries to help them stay ahead in the global arena.
Alfa Laval is listed on the Nordic Exchange, Nordic Large Cap, and, in 2007, posted annual sales of about SEK 25 billion (approx. 2.7 billion euros). The company has some 11,500 employees.
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Peter Torstensson
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Alfa Laval
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