Alfa Laval AB (Lund, Sweden) recently opened a new greenfield manufacturing site in San Bonifacio, Italy, for the production of brazed heat exchangers. The new highly advanced facility includes research and customer training areas and will mainly supply heat exchangers to customers in Europe. Details of the new site include:
- Total site area = 31,000 m2
- Production area and logistics = 13,400 m2
- Office and laboratory area = 6,000 m2
- Certifications: ISO 9001, 14001, 45001 and 50001, 55001 PED, ASME and UL
The factory in Italy, inaugurated in late September, is Alfa Laval’s most modern and sustainable production facility yet, with rooftop solar panels supplying energy. It has a digitalized warehouse management system to oversee the flow of materials and goods, an advanced automated production set-up, an on-site training centre – and a lab for the research and development of new innovative products for heat pumping, air conditioning and refrigeration.
”The new facility marks an important milestone in our strategy to move towards Industry 4.0 and make manufacturing both smarter and more efficient, across the whole production line,” says Mikael Tydén, President of the Operations Division, Alfa Laval. ”With this state-of-the-art facility we are better equipped to meet our customers’ needs, and together with them we will drive the development of tomorrow’s product range.”