Alfa Laval
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Alfa Laval AB is a Swedish company, founded in 1883 by Gustaf de Laval and Oscar Lamm. The company is a leading producer of specialized products and solutions used to heat, cool, separate and transport products such as oil, water, chemicals, beverages, foodstuffs, starch and pharmaceuticals.
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History
Alfa Laval was founded as AB Separator and the current name was introduced in 1963. Between 1993 and 2000 Alfa Laval was a part of the Tetra Pak Group.
In October 2003, Alfa Laval acquired bioKinetics, the life science division of Kinetics Group, providing the company with a position in the North American market for integrated factory-scale process solutions[1] 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.[2]
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- ^ See Systems engineering and Process engineering for more information
- ^ “Alfa Laval acquires a North American leader in integrated process solutions for the biotech and pharmaceutical industries”, Alfa Laval, October 3, 2003.; "bioKinetics Engineering & Manufacturing." Accessed October 5, 2005.
