Agriculture processing

Sugar and Starch & Sweetener production facilities are present almost everywhere. They are often highly streamlined and efficient, and Alfa Laval has together with these industries developed specialised products tailored to fit their requirements with a focus on separation and thermal products as well as process solutions.

Product brochure: WideGap heat exchangers

WideGap heat exchangers

Product brochure: Evaporators and condensers in a new dimension

Evaporators and condensers

Application brochure: Evaporation solutions for starch & sweeteners

Evaporation solutions for starch & sweeteners

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Alfa Laval Equipment Upgrades boost the capacity

At the request of sugar and ethanol producer Grupo Santa Terezinha, Alfa Laval’s Service Center in São Paulo upgraded two Alfa Laval high speed separators to the latest specifications. It increased th...

Quality pays off in Thai starch production

Chok Yuen Yong removes fruit water in their tapioca production with STNX decanters.

Sticky pumping problem solved using RLPs in Odessa, Ukraine

A Ukrainian molasses transshipment company has solved its molasses handling problem by installing rotary lobe pumps (RLPs) from Alfa Laval. The choice was made after an extensive review of available p...

WideGaps help cut energy consumption in preliming step at Swedish sugar mill

In 1999 Nordic Sugar's Örtofta mill in Sweden added a sixth evaporation step. Six WideGap heat exchangers from Alfa Laval, offering close temperature approach, were installed as prelimed juice heaters...

AlfaVap ensures high product quality and saves energy at Thai Glucose Co. in Thailand

For Thai Glucose Co., located near Bangkok, the installation of a 2-effect AlfaVap evaporation system resulted in reduced energy costs, increased capacity and high product quality.

Alfa Laval systems makes operating costs evaporate

Industrias del Maiz Corn Products exchanged their existing evaporation system for a system from Alfa Laval and cut energy consumption in the evaporation system by 40 to 50%.

The magic formula: Improve product quality while reducing costs, energy consumption and downtime

See how Pendik Nisasta San AS, Turkey, cut costs and increased product quality by switching to Alfa Laval Compabloc fully welded heat exchangers.

Increased capacity and better performance from Alfa Laval's three-phase starch decanter

When Cargill decided to increase the capacity of their wheat starch factory in Poland, the company turned to Alfa Laval for a cost-effective and reliable solution, which is exactly what the Alfa Laval...

Starch maker stiffens its position

With one eye on quality and global standards, and the other on comprehensive expansion, Riddhi Siddhi Gluco Biols, India’s largest starch producer, is all set to make waves.

The Sweet Source in Japan’s North Country

Don’t think tropics when you consider sugar: in Japan most of it comes from beets grown in a beautiful, often snowy land far removed from traditional images of the land of the rising sun.