Alfa Laval

Alfa Laval

Alfa Laval has been engineering heat transfer, separation, and fluid handling equipment since 1883. It started with a single milk separator invented by Gustaf de Laval — today the company holds over 4,200 patents and operates across the food, beverage, dairy, pharmaceutical, energy, and marine industries. Their equipment shows up in food plants worldwide because it's built for hygienic, continuous-duty production and it performs.

BEECO sources, quotes, and supports Alfa Laval equipment for food and beverage processing customers throughout Southern California. If you're spec'ing new equipment or replacing existing Alfa Laval units, we can help you get the right fit without the runaround.

What Alfa Laval Makes

Their product line covers three core areas. Each one is relevant to food processing in a different way.

Heat Transfer

Alfa Laval plate heat exchangers are the standard in food and beverage processing — pasteurization, heating, cooling, heat recovery. Their gasketed plate-and-frame units deliver efficient heat transfer in a compact footprint. The plates are easy to pull apart for inspection and gasket replacement, which matters in a plant that runs CIP daily. Product range covers everything from HVAC to high-temp dairy processing, with WideGap plates available for products that carry particulates. Scraped surface and tubular exchangers round out the lineup for viscous or shear-sensitive products that can't run through a standard plate.

Separation

Separation technology is where Alfa Laval got its start. Their disc-stack centrifuges and decanter centrifuges handle liquid-liquid separation, clarification, and solids removal in dairy, juice, edible oils, and brewing. When you need to pull solids out of a liquid stream or separate two immiscible phases — cream from milk, oil from water — these are the machines built for it. Membrane filtration and strainers round out the separation portfolio for finer-cut applications.

Fluid Handling

Alfa Laval's fluid handling line covers the pumps, valves, fittings, and tank cleaning equipment that move product through a hygienic system. Their LKH centrifugal pumps are a go-to for high-purity and CIP applications — sanitary design, easy to strip down, and available in configurations for high-pressure and self-priming duties. On the valve side, their double seat and mixproof valves handle simultaneous flow of two products without cross-contamination, which is critical in multi-product dairy and beverage operations. Tank cleaning heads, tubing, and fittings complete the loop.

How BEECO Works with Alfa Laval Equipment

We stock, quote, and source Alfa Laval components for food processing operations. That means heat exchangers, pumps, valves, gaskets, and wear parts — new units and replacements alike.

Here's where we add value beyond the catalog:

  • Equipment matching: We spec Alfa Laval equipment to your actual process — your product, your temps, your flow rates. The catalog gives you options; we give you the right one.
  • Replacement and retrofit: If you're running an existing Alfa Laval system and need to replace a plate pack, a pump, or a valve, we can identify the right part and get it sourced without you chasing down spec sheets.
  • New installations: For customers building out or expanding a processing line, we can integrate Alfa Laval heat exchangers, pumps, and valves into a complete system design alongside other equipment.
  • Used equipment: We buy and sell used Alfa Laval equipment. If you're looking for a specific unit or have equipment you need to move, talk to us first.

Alfa Laval equipment is built to last, but it's also specific — the right gasket material, the right plate configuration, the right pump curve for your application. Get it wrong and you're either losing efficiency or shortening equipment life. We know these products and we can help you get the spec right the first time.

Talk to BEECO About Alfa Laval

Tell us what you're running or what you need to run. We'll source the equipment, quote it straight, and get you moving.