Industrial giants ready to finance new nuclear power - Di
December 06, 2024 at 03:09 am
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Swedish industry is open to co-financing new nuclear power to secure the country's future electricity supply, writes Dagens industri.
Through the Industrikraft initiative, which brings together the country's largest industrial companies, including Alfa Laval, Boliden and Volvo, they have joined forces to find long-term solutions in cooperation with politicians and energy companies.
- "Our commitment to the Swedish energy and nuclear power issues is based on our belief that this is important for the country. And if it is good for the country, it will also be good for us," says Tom Erixon, CEO of Alfa Laval and Chairman of Industrikraft.
Erixon sees an opportunity for the industry itself to become a partner in future nuclear power projects, similar to previous Swedish investments in Finland.
Michelle Tun von Gyllenpalm, energy expert at the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, welcomes the initiative.
- "I think it could be somewhat liberating if the business community now gets more directly involved in these initiatives. It sends a clear signal to politicians that this is serious. That it is something they really want and believe in," she says.
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%).
ALFA LAVAL AB 
