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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15.05.2015

A successful year for BMA America

New projects and new colleagues in Colorado

Following the merger of BMA America with Brewer Steel and the successful delivery of a new sugar drying and cooling plant to the American Crystal Sugar Company, the success story of BMA America continued in 2014.

Acting together locally for more success

BMA America operates in all of BMA‘s business fields in the Americas. This includes the sale of the whole range of BMA products and related parts in the Sugar and Sweeteners field, services, and contract manufacturing. One special feature of contract manufacturing for BMA America is this: in addition to the wellknown apparatus in the BMA range of supplies, we also manufacture large mobile water tanks, such as are required particularly in oil and gas production.

BMA America can offer our American customers high quality and fast responses, being closer to them both in time and in space! This is felt, in a positive way, in everyday business, and especially in large-scale projects, where BMA America collaborates with other companies in the BMA Group.

Together we have demonstrated our strength in successfully completing even projects with a large scope, thanks to the best possible division of tasks across several BMA sites. Our customers benefit from this winning combination of German expertise and local presence. With our collaboration, we successfully completed the American Crystal Sugar Co. project at East Grand Forks, which has paved the way for a joint follow-up project at Hillsboro.

Repeating a success story

The plant for the sugar factory at Hillsboro is the second large-scale equipment project we are completing in collaboration with BMA Germany. Like the first joint project with American Crystal Sugar Co., it will involve the planning, manufacture and installation of an energy-efficient sugar drying and cooling plant that will easily cope with the high local differences in temperature between summer and winter. The standard parts will once more be manufactured in our workshop at Greeley, thus making perfect use of our capacities in the United States.

A growing team

Projects like these make for steady growth at BMA America. To continue to meet all our customers‘ needs, we restructured and expanded our team last year, particularly in customer service.

Cristin Mayer
BMA America
cristin.mayer@bma-us.com