BMA Info 53/2015

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A successful year for BMA America

New projects and new colleagues in Colorado.

Breaking new ground in Central America

Last year, a total of four top sugar producers in Central America decided to upgrade their plants. They opted for BMA products – breaking new ground for sugar factories in the region.

Installation and commissioning of a pan seeding system

In the beet sugar industry, pan seeding systems have been established for a long time. BMA has now successfully applied the process in the cane sugar industry.

Manufacturing and service – BMA Brazil expands its capacities

In 2012, BMA set up its subsidiary BMA Brasil Equipamentos Industriais Ltda. – who has since gone from strength to strength. A new production and service centre opened in Indaiatuba in early September 2014.

Interview

BMA Info talks to Igor Djoukwé

A force, to be reckoned with

BMA MENA Industries are going from strength to strength as a design and service provider in the Middle East and North Africa.

Agrosnabsakhar – How a project turned into a big surprise

On first contact with the Agrosnabsakhar sugar factory, nobody at BMA could have foreseen how this collaboration would grow.

Russian pioneers – VKT for a competitive edge

The Russian sugar industry is driving the extension and upgrade of its production sites and BMA plays a key role in this development. The result: a significant increase in output.

Four companies, three continents, two years, one goal

Together with Etihad Food Industries, the BMA Group has got a large-scale project off the ground – collaboration at its best.

Innovations for better performance – A new drying and cooling plant

A good cooling and drying system is the key to high sugar quality. Reason enough for BMA to continuously enhance this equipment, launching new and innovative products on the market.

A premiere in Pakistan – Successful commissioning of two falling-film evaporators

Reducing consumption of resources to a minimum while enhancing performance – those were the objectives for a factory in Pakistan specified in the order JDW Sugar Mills Ltd. placed with BMA.

Indian Cane Power Ltd.– More revenue thanks to co-generation

Indian Cane Power Ltd. (ICPL) relies on bagasse for power generation. For several years now, BMA has helped the company implement its innovative concepts with numerous supplies of equipment.

Uzbekistan‘s most cutting-edge factory

The Angren Shakar refinery was commissioned in August 2014.

Expanding centrifugal production for China

In 2014, BMA China expanded its assembly range to include not only continuous centrifugals but also batch-type machines (see also BMA Info 52/2014). The model in question belongs to the well-established and reliable B series.

Centrifugals from BMA: Made in Germany

2014 was a truly international year, also for BMA‘s product business: customers on all continents opted for BMA centrifugals.

BMA Automation: a complex factory acceptance test

With the supply of the process control system including all key electrical equipment, BMA Automation was involved in the design of the new refinery in Iraq right from the start. The complex factory acceptance test was a major milestone on the path to the finished plant.

Scientific exchange across the globe – BMA at international conferences

BMA has been presenting the latest developments from current international sugar industry projects at conferences across the globe. The report on the upgrade and capacity extension of the ICPL cane sugar factory is a recent outstanding example.

Engineering projects for the cane and beet sugar industries

In the beet sugar industry, pan seeding systems have been established for a long time. BMA has now successfully applied the process in the cane sugar sector.

Overview of all articles

19.05.2009

BMA Automation has been appointed as German agent for Moisttech moisture sensors

Moisttech, a division of Sensortech Inc. from the USA is one of the leading suppliers of online near infrared moisture sensors. The main product of this series is the IR 3000 sensor. As of now these devices are sold in Germany by BMA Automation GmbH. The sensors are used to measure the moisture in the food industry, tobacco processing, paper industry and other sectors. By online measuring the…

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04.05.2009

Black box for cycle-synchronous logging of PLC data

Many companies decide to optimise their processes primarily because they want to enhance the availability of their plants. In particular for very complex plants, this requires exact data logging over extended periods, and archiving of process data, signals and the operating status of machinery and production equipment in synchronism with the cycles of the programmable logic controller (PLC). These…

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20.03.2009

Anuga Food Tec 2009 in Cologne

This year's Cologne Anuga Food Tec fair was held between 10 and 13 March. It is a platform for the manufacturing, packaging and distribution sectors in the food and beverage industries and brings together innovators and investors. More than 1,180 companies from 39 countries were represented in Cologne this year.BMA Automation GmbH and BMA Nederland B.V., both subsidiaries of the Braunschweig-based…

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12.03.2009

Retrofitting sugar centrifugals

Retrofitting centrifugals that are already in operation in sugar factories plays an increasingly important role. In 1981, BMA AG launched its G-1750 centrifugal, which can hold 1,750 kg of massecuite per batch. Since 1998, several hundred machines of this type, including its B 1750 successor model, have been sold worldwide. Some of the first centrifugals of type G 1750 came with relay controls,…

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01.03.2009

New General Manager BMA Automation GmbH

We are pleased to announce that Bernd Stolte has been appointed General Manager of BMA Automation GmbH with immediate effect. Together with Ingo Bardischewski and Wilfried Rother, Mr Stolte will be part of the new BMA Automation GmbH management team. Mr Stolte, who joined the BMA group in 1989, last held the position of General Manager of BMA Nederland BV in Woerden (the Netherlands).

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23.02.2009

Konya Seker production line successfully put into operation

Konya Seker San. Tic. A.S. is the largest sugar manufacturer in Turkey and a member of a cooperative organisation of nearly 60,000 employees. But the company is also active in fields such as confectionery, irrigation systems and animal feed. A new segment in their product portfolio is equipment for the production of French fries.At the end of 2007, Konya Seker decided to commission BMA Nederland…

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14.02.2009

8th Moscow International Sugar Forum

BMA for the first time attended the annual International Sugar Forum, which took place this year on the grounds of the all-Russia exhibition centre in Moscow between 25 and 27 February 2009. Now, in its 8th year, the forum has certainly established itself.With companies exhibiting their products and with conferences on sugar technology and sugar beet production issues, the forum once again proved…

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