Alfa Laval announced that Susanne Pahlén Åklundh, President of Alfa Laval's Energy Division, is retiring. She will be succeeded on 1 August 2021 by Thomas Møller, currently President of the company's Business Unit Decanters in the Food & Water Division. The current President of Alfa Laval's Energy Division, Susanne Pahlén Åklundh is retiring after a long and impressive career with the company. Susanne joined Alfa Laval in 1983 and has held various senior positions. Since 2009 Susanne has been a member of Group Management, and the last five years she has held the position of President of the Energy Division responsible for 30% of the Group's order intake in 2020. Susanne has driven the Energy Division's transformation from traditional energy solutions to taking a much stronger position within clean technologies and renewable energy supply.
Alfa Laval AB specializes in the design, manufacturing and marketing of equipment and industrial systems for heating, cooling, separating and transporting of substances (oil, water, chemical and food substances, drinks, drugs, etc.). The activity is organized mainly arounf two families of products:
- solid and liquid treatment systems: systems for cooling, evaporation, extraction, drying, etc. intended primarily for the food processing, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, and energy sectors;
- production process equipment: decanters, heat exchangers, pumps, valves, air and liquid filtration systems, etc.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Sweden (2.2%), Europe (32.5%), China (14.1%), South Korea (5.5%), Asia (18.2%), United States (16.7% ), North America (2.1%), Latin America (5.6%), Africa (1.9%) and Oceania (1.2%).