Alfa Laval wins SEK 60 million order in China

Alfa Laval – a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling – has received an order for the unique Alfa Laval Packinox plate heat exchanger from a petrochemical company in China. The order value is about SEK 60 million. Delivery is scheduled for 2009.

“During the second quarter this year China has taken over the position from the US as Alfa Laval’s biggest market,” says Lars Renström, President and CEO of the Alfa Laval Group. “The demand from the petrochemical industry and refineries remains on a high level.”

Did you know that Alfa Laval’s order intake in China has grown with 430 percent between year 2000 and 2007 and that China represented 12 percent of Alfa Laval’s total order intake in 2007, or about SEK 3.3 billion.




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
Senior Vice President, Communications
Alfa Laval
Tel: + 46 46 36 72 31
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