What Alfa Laval makes for data centers
public · HQ Sweden · alfalaval.com
Alfa Laval is a publicly listed company and based in Sweden. It appears on 4 parts of the AI data center — CDU internals: plate heat exchangers, pumps, filters, Dry coolers, adiabatic/evaporative units, cooling towers, fans & motors, Heat reuse & district heating interfaces and Plate HX — in the role of manufacturer. Those parts sit in Layer 5 — Liquid cooling (IT-side: chip to CDU) and Layer 6 — Facility cooling & HVAC. Its shares trade on Nasdaq Stockholm as ALFA.ST. It is the only listed supplier on file for Plate HX.
Parts, by layer
Layer 5 — Liquid cooling (IT-side: chip to CDU)
| Part | Role | Confidence | Competitors | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDU internals: plate heat exchangers, pumps, filters | manufacturer | disclosed | Kaori, Danfoss, Kelvion, SWEP |
Layer 6 — Facility cooling & HVAC
| Part | Role | Confidence | Competitors | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dry coolers, adiabatic/evaporative units, cooling towers, fans & motors | manufacturer | inferred | Daikin, LU-VE, Modine, Munters, SPX Technologies, Vertiv | |
| Heat reuse & district heating interfaces | manufacturer | inferred | Carrier, Fortum, Siemens Energy, Trane, Danfoss, Everllence | |
| Plate HX | manufacturer | disclosed | Danfoss, Kelvion, SWEP |
Where Alfa Laval sits in the stack
Alfa Laval's placements in this catalog cover 4 parts, from layer 5 (liquid cooling (it-side: chip to cdu)) to layer 6 (facility cooling & hvac). None of them currently carries a sourced supply constraint tag. Across these parts it overlaps with other companies most often on the lines below.
What these parts are
- CDU internals: plate heat exchangers, pumps, filters — The internal components of a CDU — plate heat exchangers, pumps, and filters — that do the actual heat exchange, circulation, and particulate control inside the unit.
- Dry coolers, adiabatic/evaporative units, cooling towers, fans & motors — Dry coolers, adiabatic/evaporative units, and cooling towers reject heat picked up by the facility water loop to outside air, driven by fans and motors.
- Plate HX — Plate heat exchangers that isolate one water loop from another — for example, the facility loop from the IT-side loop — so a leak or pressure event on one side doesn't cross into the other.
- Heat reuse & district heating interfaces — Heat exchangers and interconnection equipment that export waste heat from a data center's cooling loop into a district heating network or other end use instead of rejecting it to atmosphere.
Closest peers in this catalog
Seen in real machines
Alfa Laval is named in 1 of the rack teardowns and supercomputer breakdowns on this site. Each line below is a piece of that machine.
- Nvidia GB300 NVL72 · rack teardown
- CDU heat exchangers and pumps
Questions about Alfa Laval
- What does Alfa Laval make for AI data centers?
- This catalog places Alfa Laval on 4 parts: CDU internals: plate heat exchangers, pumps, filters (manufacturer), Dry coolers, adiabatic/evaporative units, cooling towers, fans & motors (manufacturer), Heat reuse & district heating interfaces (manufacturer) and Plate HX (manufacturer).
- Is Alfa Laval publicly traded?
- Yes — Alfa Laval is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm under ALFA.ST. Prices shown on this page are a nightly snapshot, not real-time, and nothing here is investment advice.
- Where is Alfa Laval based?
- Sweden, per the company record in this catalog.
- Who else makes CDU internals: plate heat exchangers, pumps, filters for AI data centers?
- Kaori, Danfoss, Kelvion and SWEP are also placed on CDU internals: plate heat exchangers, pumps, filters in this catalog.
- How well sourced are these placements?
- Every part→company placement carries a confidence tag. For Alfa Laval the mix is 2 disclosed and 2 inferred. "disclosed" means the company or a filing says so; "reported" comes from trade press or a reference-design list; "inferred" is a lead from the taxonomy with no citation yet. Treat reported and inferred as leads, not facts.
Answers are generated from this catalog's own rows — see sources & method.