Alfa Laval Group Appoints Jan Allde as New Chief Financial Officer, Effective February 1, 2018, Replacing Thomas Thuresson
November 08, 2017 at 02:37 am EST
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Alfa Laval Group announced that Thomas Thuresson, CFO of the Alfa Laval Group, has decided to go into early retirement and that Jan Allde has been appointed new CFO, effective February 1, 2018. Thomas Thuresson started with Alfa Laval in 1988 and has held several senior financial positions, both in Swedenand abroad. In 1992, he took up the responsibility as Chief Financial Officer on Group level and became amember of the Alfa Laval Group Management. Jan Allde has been appointed new CFO of the Alfa Laval Group effective February 1, 2018. Jan holds the position as Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, Americas for the ABB Group. He has over 20 years' experience of financial leadership within ABB, overseeing areas such as public company financial reporting, mergers and acquisitions, and financial planning and analysis.
Alfa Laval AB specializes in the design, manufacturing and marketing of equipment and industrial systems for heating, cooling, separating and transporting of substances (oil, water, chemical and food substances, drinks, drugs, etc.). The activity is organized mainly arounf two families of products:
- solid and liquid treatment systems: systems for cooling, evaporation, extraction, drying, etc. intended primarily for the food processing, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, and energy sectors;
- production process equipment: decanters, heat exchangers, pumps, valves, air and liquid filtration systems, etc.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Sweden (2.2%), Europe (32.5%), China (14.1%), South Korea (5.5%), Asia (18.2%), United States (16.7% ), North America (2.1%), Latin America (5.6%), Africa (1.9%) and Oceania (1.2%).