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

20.01.2014

New developments in centrifugal technology

An information event at Cosumar in Morocco. Many employees from the refinery and all Cosumar sugar factories attended the event, which was held at the Cosumar Club in Casablanca.

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15.01.2014

180 families want to say “Thank you!”

Fund-raising campaign for typhoon victims in the Philippines. Jesse Sarsalejo, our colleague at Cebu, Philippines, wishes to express sincere thanks on behalf of numerous residents of his hometown Medellin. This city was one of those very badly affected by typhoon Yolanda.

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25.11.2013

19th AFCAS convention

The French sugar cane association AFCAS, which was founded in 1983, aims to promote throughout France scientific, technical and economic knowledge of the agronomics, cultivation, industrial processing, residues and marketing of sugar cane and its by-products.

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01.10.2013

2013 conference for BMA centrifugal service technicians

This year, 14 service technicians for BMA centrifugals met for a conference in Braunschweig, with many of them coming from Russia, Tunisia, China and the Unites States.

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05.09.2013

XXXV Convención y EXPOATAM 2013 Don Héctor M. Sáenz Couret

Representatives of the Mexican sugar industry will meet for their annual specialist conference September 24-27. The latest developments in the sugar industry will be represented in numerous expert lectures including the topics “Agro-Engineering”, “Cultivation and Harvesting”, “Factory Design”, “Laboratory”, and “Co-products/Ecology”.

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29.08.2013

BMA Academy starting soon

The BMA Academy will be offering various seminars all dealing with sugar production, BMA equipment and BMA process components. Experienced BMA speakers will be presenting theoretical background knowledge as well as running hands-on training units.

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28.08.2013

BMA patent for fluidised-bed drying of biomass maintained

In January 2011, a competitor had filed an opposition against a patent granted to BMA (EP-B-1 1956326) for a fluidised-bed drying method, citing a lack of inventive step and lack of novelty.

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