Swedish engineering giant Alfa Laval has been awarded an 150 million Swedis Kroner (SEK) order for three thermal evaporation systems by the London-listed Vedanta Aluminum Limited for its expansion project in India.

The order is for Alfa Laval's clean technologies in India and delivery is scheduled for 2009. The order is not connected to Alfa Laval's Indian operations as Vedanta had directly placed it with the Sweden parent.

''Alfa Laval has provided customers with solutions that generate, reuse and protect natural resources in industrial processes for 125 years'', says Lars Renström, president and CEO of the Alfa Laval Group. ''In this case caustic is recycled back to the main process after concentration by thermal evaporation, caustic that otherwise would have been wasted''.

Alfa Laval's first representative office in India opened in 1937 - 10 years before India's independence from Great Britain.

The Swedish company is a leading global provider of specialised products and engineering solutions based on its key heat transfer technologies, separation and fluid handling. It's products and solutions are used in areas water supply, energy production and economising and environmental protection.

The solutions help them to heat, cool, separate and transport products in industries that produce food and beverages, chemicals and petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, starch, sugar and ethanol.

Alfa Laval's products are also used in power plants, aboard ships, in the mechanical engineering industry, in the mining industry and for wastewater treatment, as well as for comfort climate and refrigeration applications.

Alfa Laval's worldwide organization works closely with customers in nearly 100 countries to help them stay ahead in the global arena.

Last month the company received an order for plate heat exchangers from a company in the growing Russian power industry. The order value was about SEK 50 million.