Innovations: at the heart of our separation technologies

Innovation has been at the heart of Alfa Laval's separation technology for more than 140 years. Now, we are on the path to natural intelligence. Inspired by the natural intelligence of the human body, our future separators will self-adjust with natural precision, adapting seamlessly to changing conditions. This is the next leap we are taking together with our customers, with the aim of always improving your day-to-day operations and securing sustainable processing.

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Innovation with an impact



Beer clarification

Up to 70-75% energy reduction with Hermetic Design and eMotion

Biopharma harvesting

40 to 80% less water, energy, and cleaning agents with CultureOne, compared to filter-based harvesting methods – with only a fraction of plastics

Alternative protein separation

Up to 30% less energy with Hermetic Design

Explore innovations for your industry

Food, Dairy & Beverage

Find out how about our innovative features for separators in food and beverage industries and learn how they help improve quality and energy consumption.

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Next-generation food

Discover Alfa Laval as the ideal next-generation food partner: providing guidance and expertise to create and run cost-efficient processes.

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Biotech & Pharma

Explore how Alfa Laval innovations help optimize biopharmaceutical production to secure quality and safety.

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Energy & Marine

Learn about Alfa Laval innovations that help improve performance, energy consumption and sustainable operation in oil and gas industries and marine applications.

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Learn more about separation technology

How it works

Separation technologies are essential to a broad range of industries — from food, beverage and pharma to marine and energy through to water and waste treatment. Various technologies are used for separating liquid from liquid and solids from liquids with the aim of producing cleaner substances, valuable by-products and less volume of waste to dispose.

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Take advantage of Alfa Laval features

All Alfa Laval separators are developed with the benefit of more than 130 years of experience with disc stack separation technology and our deep knowledge of customer processes. Find out how all that expertise has gone into unique features for improved separation performance.

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