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Save 71% in water costs by upgrading one valve control top out of every four

Want to boost yield? Secure hygienic safety?
Reduce operating costs? Achieve your sustainability goals?

Let experts at the Alfa Laval Fluid Handling Application & Innovation Centre solve the challenges you face. That’s what a leading global brewery did to determine the best way to reduce water costs when cleaning mixproof valves. No matter the industry or the challenge, our experts can come up with an innovative, fit-for-purpose solution for you.

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Test results – more than 71% in water savings

Upgrading all valve control tops on a mixproof valve cluster isn’t always the optimal approach to raising process performance, especially for industries with less frequent cleaning requirements.
At least that’s what our Application & Innovation Centre experts found when investigating a sound upgrading strategy for the brewery. Our experts tested three scenarios using a set-up identical to the brewery’s own.

The optimal solution? Upgrading one out of every four valve control tops was by far the most attractive solution compared to upgrading them all.

“A total upgrade is not always the best approach. Sometimes a little ingenuity goes a long way,” says Mario Kurilic, Technical Sales Manager, Food & Water, Alfa Laval.
He continues: “Using one ThinkTop V70 to control four valve actuators delivered 71% in water savings and required less investment than changing all the control tops.”
Click here to see how the test went.

Faster valve cleaning, faster payback time

ThinkTop V70 with burst seat cleaning functionality effectively cleans the valve seat much faster and uses less water than the brewery’s current cleaning system.
This makes it possible to realize payback in less than a year, depending on the cleaning requirements, frequency and cost structure.

Explore Alfa Laval ThinkTop V70.

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This is Alfa Laval

Alfa Laval is active in the areas of Energy, Marine, and Food & Water, offering its expertise, products, and service to a wide range of industries in some 100 countries. The company is committed to optimizing processes, creating responsible growth, and driving progress – always going the extra mile to support customers in achieving their business goals and sustainability targets.

Alfa Laval’s innovative technologies are dedicated to purifying, refining, and reusing materials, promoting more responsible use of natural resources. They contribute to improved energy efficiency and heat recovery, better water treatment, and reduced emissions. Thereby, Alfa Laval is not only accelerating success for its customers, but also for people and the planet. Making the world better, every day. It’s all about Advancing betterTM.

Alfa Laval has 16,700 employees. Annual sales in 2020 were SEK 41.5 billion (approx. EUR 4 billion). The company is listed on Nasdaq OMX.

www.alfalaval.com

Big aseptic performance, smaller Unique DV-ST UltraPure diaphragm valves

The all-new, extended range of Alfa Laval Unique DV-ST UltraPure diaphragm valves makes high-performance aseptic processing easier than ever. Fully customizable, the enhanced, ATEX-compliant range comes with slimmer stainless-steel actuators and lightweight cast valve bodies with optimized performance.

“These valves are second to none. They are much more compact, yet deliver the same reliable, aseptic performance,” says Paw Kramer, Portfolio Manager, Valves and Automation, Alfa Laval.

Slim, space-saving actuators

Imagine an actuator that’s 42% lighter, 25% more compact, and 17% shorter in height than most actuators, yet still delivers big on performance and energy efficiency. The new standard DV-ST actuator range shrinks the footprint of your aseptic processes and boosts productivity.

This versatile, space-saving new range of stainless-steel actuators operates at a wide range of pressures. Options include a stroke limiter, economical valve position indication, and comprehensive automated valve sensing and control. For special application requirements, there’s the DV-ST high-pressure actuator.

Lightweight cast valve bodies for optimized performance

Smaller seat sizes on our lightweight, ASME BPE-compliant Cast OP valve bodies optimize flow to ensure the same highly efficient performance.

• Higher process efficiency, smaller footprint
• Lower total cost of ownership
• Safe, simple low-cost maintenance
• Reduced energy consumption
• Faster sterilization in place

Discover more about the enhanced Unique DV-ST UltraPure: https://www.alfalaval.com/products/fluid-handling/valves/diaphragm-valves/unique-dv-st-ultrapure/

About Alfa Laval

Alfa Laval is a leading global provider of first-rate products in the areas of heat transfer, separation and fluid handling. With these as its base, Alfa Laval aims to help enhance the productivity and competitiveness of its customers in various industries throughout the world. We define their challenges and deliver sustainable products and solutions that meet their requirements – mainly in energy, the environment, food and the marine industry.

Alfa Laval continues to bring innovative products to the market, and the Alfa Laval DuraCirc® pump is raising standards for the food, dairy, beverage, home and personal care industries. Alfa Laval has used its extensive experience from previously developed products to create a new design with unmatched customer value, delivering high performance, hygiene safety – and easy maintenance. This launch is another example of the company’s commitment to being a technology leader.

The unique design of this new Alfa Laval pump is focused on hygiene and safety, ensuring efficient performance that meets the latest global hygiene standards (EHEDG and 3A), whilst enabling easy maintenance. In the past, customers had to choose between pumps that were efficient or pumps that were easy to clean and service. The DuraCirc pump combines for the first time the best of both worlds, setting a new industry standard.

“Simplicity, efficiency and safety are the key qualities of our latest pump,” says Nish Patel, President of the Food & Water Division. “This is a landmark product for us. It highlights our dedication to innovating technologies that will positively impact business for our customers. It offers more efficient and sustainable processing, for better results and greater peace of mind.”

Did you know that… Alfa Laval launches approximately 100 products annually, which is the equivalent of around two products per week?

This is Alfa Laval 

Alfa Laval, world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling, is active in the areas of Energy, Marine, and Food & Water, offering its expertise, products, and service to a wide range of industries in some 100 countries. The company is committed to optimizing processes, creating responsible growth, and driving progress to support customers in achieving their business goals and sustainability targets.

Alfa Laval’s innovative technologies are dedicated to purifying, refining, and reusing materials, promoting more responsible use of natural resources. They contribute to improved energy efficiency and heat recovery, better water treatment, and reduced emissions. Thereby, Alfa Laval is not only accelerating success for its customers, but also for people and the planet. Making the world better, every day.

Alfa Laval has 16,700 employees. Annual sales in 2020 were SEK 41.5 billion (approx. EUR 4 billion). The company is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.

Alfa Laval – a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling – in partnership with Stena Recycling, leading in recycling and circular solutions, is to launch a ground-breaking business model for sustainable and environmentally efficient recycling of heat exchangers, enabling up to 100 percent metal regeneration. The partnership is a first step towards a circular approach to the company’s product portfolio, and an important part of Alfa Laval’s commitment to become carbon neutral by 2030.

The goal of this new initiative is twofold: Firstly, to encourage replacement of less energy-efficient plate heat exchangers by new modern products. This will lead to significant energy savings and reduced CO2 emissions in customers’ processes. Secondly, plate heat exchangers contain large amounts of valuable metals that can be recycled and reused in new Alfa Laval products; Stena Recycling’s innovative technology enables up to 100 percent metal regeneration.

“This is an important step towards a more circular and sustainable approach when sourcing material, manufacturing and supplying our products,” says Susanne Pahlén Åklundh, President of the Energy Division. “Starting in the Nordic region, the recycling initiative will include three types of heat exchangers. However, we see great opportunities to expand the scope to other product groups and geographical areas in the future. This initiative is a win-win, to the benefit of our customers as well as to society.”

“The collaboration with Alfa Laval shows once again what effective circular solutions we can create when we work together. Simultaneously, as the industry receives help with significant energy efficiencies, we ensure a high recycling rate of older and inefficient plate heat exchangers in Sweden. These materials can be used as circular quality raw materials for new products, including new products that Alfa Laval manufactures ", says Fredrik Pettersson, Managing Director of Stena Recycling Sweden.

Did you know that… Alfa Laval has the ambition of becoming carbon neutral by 2030 throughout the value chain – from material production and transportation to product manufacturing and delivery – and circularity of this kind is a key step?

The collaboration is inspired by the Circular Initiative, a business-driven event in circularity led by Stena Recycling.

About Stena Recycling

Stena Recycling makes recycling a sustainable business. With 3,000 committed employees in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Poland, Germany and Italy, Stena Recycling creates long-term solutions every day for both customers and society as a whole. In addition to efficient and value-creating recycling, Stena Recycling offers services such as Design for Recycling to increase the recycling rate of products already in the design stage. Stena Recycling is part of the Stena Metall Group.

www.stenarecycling.com/

This is Alfa Laval 

Alfa Laval is active in the areas of Energy, Marine, and Food & Water, offering its expertise, products, and service to a wide range of industries in some 100 countries. The company is committed to optimizing processes, creating responsible growth, and driving progress – always going the extra mile to support customers in achieving their business goals and sustainability targets.

Alfa Laval’s innovative technologies are dedicated to purifying, refining, and reusing materials, promoting more responsible use of natural resources. They contribute to improved energy efficiency and heat recovery, better water treatment, and reduced emissions. Thereby, Alfa Laval is not only accelerating success for its customers, but also for people and the planet. Making the world better, every day.

Alfa Laval has 16,700 employees. Annual sales in 2020 were SEK 41.5 billion (approx. EUR 4 billion). The company is listed on Nasdaq OMX.

www.alfalaval.com