During 2010, Alfa Laval has been celebrating a milestone – creating better everyday conditions for people in over 20 industries with a broad product portfolio focused on three key technologies: heat transfer, separation and fluid handling. The De Laval Separator Company was established in the USA in 1885. A factory to make the separators was built in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. and sales skyrocketed by the early 1900’s. Soon the De Laval name became iconic in farming communities across America, and the separator was as common on farms as the cows. The Poughkeepsie factory remained operational until 1990. The company persevered through prosperity…