{"title":"Alfa Laval vs LG Electronics: Cooling & thermal compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/alfa-laval-vs-lg-electronics","comparison":"Alfa Laval ranks 62 on the AI Infra 100 with a score of 89; LG Electronics ranks 68 with 88. Alfa Laval is ahead on production and commercials. LG Electronics is ahead on leverage. Level on deployment, progress, technology, positioning and firepower. Alfa Laval is based in Lund, Sweden, LG Electronics in Seoul, South Korea. Alfa Laval is named in 0 signals and LG Electronics in 102.","companies":[{"name":"Alfa Laval","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/alfa-laval","city":"Lund","country":"Sweden","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Alfa Laval is the heat exchanger inside other people's cooling products, and 2026 is the year it stopped being only that. Founded 1883, it runs more than 30 manufacturing sites with 22,000 employees and has worked in data centers for 20 years, initially supplying large gasketed plate heat exchangers for evaporative and free cooling, with brazed plate units in chillers, heat pumps and heat reuse. It entered the white space in 2022 with compact brazed plate heat exchangers for CDUs, its first project a US crypto mining single-phase immersion system, and has since followed the shift toward single-phase direct-to-chip. It supplies heat exchangers for CDUs at 2.3 to 2.5 MW, including the custom brazed plate unit at the core of Boyd's ROL2300 CDU. Two 2026 moves matter: in February a multi-year investment to double production capacity at Richmond, Virginia by mid-2028, a direct response to anticipated supply constraints; and on 2026-03-04 at Data Centre World London it launched FreeWaterLoop, an integrated external facility-loop cooling system combining pump engineering, heat exchangers and filtration, moving it from component supplier to system vendor. Commercial scores 3 because no data center revenue is disclosed at any level.","assessed_in":{"domain":"AI Core","list":"AI Infra 100","rank":62,"score":89,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":8,"progress":10,"firepower":10,"commercial":6,"deployment":10,"production":10,"technology":8},"why":"Alfa Laval sells FreeWaterLoop cooling systems and brazed plate heat exchangers to data center operators and cooling-system manufacturers serving AI infrastructure.","segment":"Cooling & thermal","layer":"Power, cooling & thermal"},"signals_total":0,"facts_total":7},{"name":"LG Electronics","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/lg-electronics","city":"Seoul","country":"South Korea","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Scored on the data center cooling unit only, as instructed. On 2026-07-27 LG secured NVIDIA AI Factory validation for its 600 kW Coolant Distribution Unit, passing more than 100 technical evaluation criteria covering cooling performance, reliability and failover, becoming one of a small group globally to clear that verification for this equipment class. The direct-to-chip unit delivers coolant to GPUs and CPUs for a hybrid cooling system, and can pair with LG's Data Centre Cooling Control Manager for predictive control and centralised monitoring. LG validates the whole chain at a dedicated Chip-to-Chiller site in Pyeongtaek. Commercial substance: LG has secured cooling projects for hyperscale facilities in North America and for the SM+ Data Center, an AI-ready facility in Jakarta, and intends to seek NVIDIA certification for 1 MW, 2.5 MW and 4 MW capacities. It also joined SK Enmove, GRC and Flex on liquid immersion cooling in October 2025, putting it on both the direct-to-chip and immersion sides. Commercial scores 2 because no data center cooling revenue is disclosed and the scoped row excludes group revenue.","assessed_in":{"domain":"AI Core","list":"AI Infra 100","rank":68,"score":88,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":10,"position":8,"progress":10,"firepower":10,"commercial":4,"deployment":10,"production":8,"technology":8},"why":"LG Electronics supplies data-center cooling, including coolant distribution units, liquid-immersion cooling and predictive cooling controls, for hyperscale and other data centers.","segment":"Cooling & thermal","layer":"Power, cooling & thermal"},"signals_total":102,"facts_total":24}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}