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.

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.

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.

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.

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”.

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.

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.