History
The company was founded as AB Separator and in 1938 produce its first heat exchanger. The current name Alfa Laval was introduced in 1963. Between 1991 and 2000 Alfa Laval was a part of the Tetra Pak Group. In 1991, Alfa Laval Agri, a company producing dairy farming equipment, was split from Alfa Laval. When Alfa Laval was sold, Alfa Laval Agri remained a part of the Tetra Pak group and was renamed DeLaval, after the company's founder.
Alfa Laval now divides its operations between equipment (capital sales) and process technology (contracts with longer duration).
In October 2003, Alfa Laval acquired bioKinetics, the life science division of Kinetics Group in the US, positioning the company in the North American market for integrated factory processes in mammalian cell culture. The resulting subsidiary, Alfa Laval Biokinetics (aka Biokinetics), is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is a member of the Pennsylvania Bio commerce organization.
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