Alfa Laval AB is a Swedish company, founded in 1883 by Gustaf de Laval and Oscar Lamm. The company started by providing centrifuges to dairies to be used to separate cream from milk. It now deals in the production of specialised products 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 Lavals's global HQ in Lund, Sweden
An Alfa Laval decanter centrifuge used in olive oil production in Greece
Old ALFA-LAVAL logo to be put on farms where their equipment was used.
Advertisement from 1899
Karl Gustaf Patrik de Laval was a Swedish engineer and inventor who made important contributions to the design of steam turbines and centrifugal separation machinery for dairy.
de Laval 1875
de Laval's forge in Kloster
Gustaf de Laval at the age around 50.
Impulse Turbine by Gustaf de Laval. Built in Sweden, 1888. Deutsches Museum, Munich.