Alfa Laval as the
Transition Leader

In 2023, Alfa Laval articulated a 2030 strategic direction for the company and called it “the Transition Leader.”

Pioneering Positive Impact

The world faces some big challenges. There’s rising demand for energy, clean water, sustainable food and decarbonized marine transportation. Meeting these challenges will require significant change – and Alfa Laval is uniquely positioned to help.

Our corporate journey began more than 140 years ago. Ever since we have challenged conventional thinking on quality, efficiency and innovation. Alfa Laval products and solutions can enable us, our customers and societies to meet sustainability goals, boost circular business and develop sustainable value chains.

The Transition Leader role

With our global view and experience we are uniquely positioned to take the role as the transition leader. That comes with great responsibility.

We focus on what matters most: our people, our customers, our partners, our services and the impact they have. We can help reduce emissions and secure energy efficiency. With our core technologies in heat transfer, separation and fluid handling, we can contribute solutions and influence. And with a mindset of exploration, we can shape a more sustainable world and create lasting positive impact, driven by dedication and respect.

If we look at the role hydrogen, carbon capture, biofuels and new sources of protein will play in the future, and if we look at how to decarbonize the global merchant fleet, Alfa Laval has a significant role to play.

We know that we cannot change the world alone. But as the transition leader we can help show the way forward. We dare to stick our neck out by saying the pace of the transition is too slow and that the world is behind schedule in terms of addressing the climate crisis.

Living our commitments

As we support our customers to reach their goals, we also strive to meet our own. We want Alfa Laval to grow – but sustainably. We walk-the-talk by setting plans to reach net zero, challenging ourselves to create a more sustainable value chain, and limiting our emissions to the absolute minimum. We monitor our progress – and we are acting fast. In 2024, we announced plans to effectively reach our Scope 1 and 2 net-zero targets by 2027, three years ahead of the originally announced target year.

Partnering up

As the saying goes: If you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together.

Nowhere is this more true than when trying to create a systemic shift. Alfa Laval is one piece of a large puzzle – a puzzle that involves private companies, academia and the public sector working across value chains and industries. Partnership increases understanding of the challenges we all face and helps us find the solutions to overcome them. It’s key to strengthening our business, enabling our customers, and building a more sustainable society. Through collaboration we can innovate technologies to optimize efficiency, reduce emissions, and increase yields to pioneer positive impact in the energy, food & water, and marine industries.

Game-changing solutions

We continuously develop our offering by evolving and expanding existing and emerging technologies and applications.

We offer our customers some of the world’s leading solutions under the umbrellas of heat transfer, separation, and fluid handling. Right now, in more than 100 countries, we are helping to use energy more efficiently and from new sources, boost sustainable food production, recover and re-use water, and reduce the environmental impact of shipping. Every year, we find new ways to unlock the potential of resources, improve business results, and reshape vital industries.

Optimizing today represents a traditional part of Alfa Laval’s offering and the foundation of our company. It is a business model of how to ensure product leadership with significant service opportunities. But remaining the world-leader in existing technology requires hard work: we develop our offering, we invest in production technology, we review our supply chain footprint, and we manage our productivity. We fund our investments in the future by ensuring a strong and stable financial performance.

Innovating tomorrow represents the newer parts of Alfa Laval’s offering, not least in the energy landscape. We believe it’s possible to do good while also doing good business. Our shareholders benefit from more than a century of engineering ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit, and so do future generations.

How to get there

The transition has numerous consequences for Alfa Laval – strategically, operationally and financially. One of the biggest differences is speed. Product development lead times are drastically cut, scaling new businesses will be faster than before, and entrepreneurship and business acumen will be more important than ever.

How we will make it happen

Our 2030 Strategic Direction guides us towards our long-term ambition. It aligns our efforts, improves efficiency and helps us stay competitive today and tomorrow. It has four pillars to make sure we are relevant and competitive today and tomorrow – People, Customer, Technology, Service. How we execute on these four pillars across Alfa Laval globally is the key to success and every single part of our operations contributes towards the effort.