Alfa Laval – a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling – has received an order for equipment to two new, major ethanol plants in the US.

The order value is about SEK 140 million ($20.51 million). Deliveries will take place during 2007.
“The new project is Alfa Laval’s largest ethanol order up to now,” says Lars Renström, CEO of the Alfa Laval Group. “We are very proud to take part in this very large project that will satisfy a significant part of the US ethanol needs in the future. We see the order as another proof of our strong position in the fuel ethanol industry.”
The US is currently the world’s largest producer of fuel ethanol with currently 19 billion litres per year. According to US legislation the amount of ethanol that must be blended into the gasoline is to be almost doubled from 2006 to 2012.
The Alfa Laval Group’s order intake related to fuel ethanol has been tripled during 2006 and the US represents a huge part of this increase. Alfa Laval has received a large number of substantial orders to the US ethanol industry during the last couple of years.
The new order contains decanter centrifuges, condensers and other heat exchangers for the two plants.
Alfa Laval utilises solutions based on its key technologies of heat transfer, separation and fluid handling.