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

22.10.2014

Central Asia‘s most cutting-edge sugar factory is taking shape in Uzbekistan

Each visit to the construction site of one of BMA‘s key projects in 2013/2014 shows the amazing speed at which everybody is working to implement the plans of the client Angren Shakar.

From fields of maize to factory site

In July 2012, the investors, project partners and representatives for the regional government together looked out over seemingly endless fields of maize. Today, at this very location, construction and assembly work to complete the factory, which is designed to process 1,000 t/d of raw cane sugar, is in full swing. A 2 km long wall has been built around the site, whose area of around 150,000 m2 is roughly equivalent to 30 football fields.

The heart of the refinery is, of course, the main process building, where raw cane sugar is processed into white sugar. It is here that BMA’s expertise and many years of experience have particularly come into play. The key components for the main process, such as the evaporators, the vacuum pans, the strike receivers, the centrifugals and the sugar driers, were supplied by BMA and put in their final positions in December 2013. At the same time, three natural gas boilers, each with a capacity of 25 t/d of vapour, were installed in the boiler house, and a steam turbine and 4 MW generator were assembled by Siemens. The boiler house and turbine will together provide all the energy needed by the refinery.

 

 

A basis for smooth logistics

The completed warehouses for raw sugar and finished white sugar currently tower over the site.The raw sugar warehouse will store up to 50,000 t of the source material for the refinery process, while the warehouse for refined sugar has a storagecapacity of 30,000 t of the product in 50 kg bags.

There is also visible evidence of the complex network of rail tracks and roads as well as the buildings for pickup and delivery. These will ensure the smooth runningof the logistics processes. Whole train loads of raw cane sugar will, after all, be delivered to the factory at regular intervals and 300,000 t of finished white sugarwill have to be taken every year to the end consumers by road or rail.

 

Optimistic mood among investors and public

The investors say that all companies involved in the implementation of the project – from Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Uzbekistan – have demonstrated extraordinary commitment and excellent performance. With engineering work,construction and assembly running in parallel some of the time, the speed of implementation has been high, hence the excellent project progress. The efforts of BMA’s assembly team deserve special mention. The team had taken on a leading role in the overall process and had to handle a number of highly complex tasks in difficult circumstances – having to coordinate almost 500 assembly and construction staff and other personnel.

During a visit by a delegation of government representatives, televised by the Uzbek state broadcasting service, the investors were assured that working and living conditions at the construc- tion site were good for all staff. The visit showed how the project has moved more and more into the public eye. Further evidence of how positively the project is viewed are the about 1,200 applications for employment in the factory that have already reached Angren Shakar. BMA is therefore doing its utmost to complete the project within deadline and meet both the investors’ targets and the Uzbek government’s expectations, so sugar production can start.

Harald Veleta
BMA AG
Harald.Veleta@bma-de.com