Bent Ludvigsen, a global process specialist in Alfa Laval, has +30 years of experience in working with most aspects of centrifuge-based food & feed processing, focusing on the important aspect – the required input material quality and the process steps to transform a raw material to a valuable end-product specification.
Bent has outside Alfa Laval experience from public Danish research institutions, and in as process engineer in Alfa Laval extensive international experience in the field of process technology development, product testing and plant start up. He has for Alfa Laval worked as expatriate for several years in USA. In this capacity Bent has provides his expertise and consulting service to many well know large international clients in research assistance, process optimizing, product formulation, conceptual designs, quality assurance etc.
He has an extensive track record in the development and preparation of ingredients for convenience foods, nutraceuticals or API productions targeting the highest quality standards. Inventing solutions for the “Circular Economy” to process “Premium foods” makes his mouth water – the term waste and wastewater does not exist only cost limitations.
He practices the art of recovering food ingredients from by-products and has world class expertise in the extraction and purification of proteins and fats.