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.

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19.05.2016

Science and research hotspot

Research and development played a major role in the region well before Braunschweig became Germany's City of Science for a year in 2007. The University of Braunschweig, for instance, is proud to be the oldest institute of technology in Germany. Over the past decades, both the city and its surrounding area have evolved into a European research hotspot, not least in the sugar sector.

 

The highest concentration of scientists in Europe

Around the start of the new millennium, about 27 organisations joined forces and created ForschungRegion Braunschweig e.V., with the aim of achieving knowledge exchange and transfer, promoting innovation in the long term, and securing the region's leading position in science. Local industry is also working hard and reaping successes in research and development. With 4 % of employees overall, the region has the highest "concentration of scientists" in Europe.

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University of Braunschweig

In such an environment, it is hardly surprising that BMA, too, is committed to advances in technology. BMA aims to stay one step ahead with new ideas at all times and more than 34 % of the workforce just at the Braunschweig head office have university degrees. The benefits for plant operators and investors alike are twofold: as a global player and expert, BMA develops and manufactures efficient, future-proof machinery, plants and equipment for all steps ranging from extraction to sugar drying. The company's other great asset is expert knowledge of all process steps in the sugar production chain. With this knowledge and a good view of the whole picture, a focus on economic viability and plant efficiency, BMA can engineer innovative solutions for individual process steps, and for entire sugar factories and refineries.

Young talents at BMA

BMA invests much time to stay ahead in the field of technology, for instance, in training students and graduates. In addition to delivering university lectures and presentations, mentors from BMA look after students of various disciplines, helping them with assignments and dissertations. Around the end of last year, two young BMA engineers from Braunschweig were awarded their PhDs. With their research areas, they are particularly valuable for BMA's activities in fluidised-bed steam drying and biomass processing.

For many years, BMA has run a laboratory and pilot plant, where a number of innovations have originated, and where product samples are produced for customers. Work there focuses on the mechanical separation of solids and liquids, and on thermal methods for the crystallisation, evaporation and drying of a variety of products. Which is why the pilot plant has, for instance, the only steam drying equipment for testing in the world that works with superheated steam under pressure above atmospheric.

BMA will continue to systematically expand its commitment to science and research. Firmly rooted in the company's vision, BMA's passion for progress has been one of the central pillars of its success in the last decades.

Axel Lange
BMA AG
sales@bma-de.com