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

Agrosnabsakhar – the big surprise

How a project with little promise turned into a challenging job

On first contact with the Agrosnabsakhar sugar factory, nobody at BMA could have foreseen how this collaboration would grow.

The new customer

As with many of our customers, our first contact with the Agrosnabsakhar sugar factory at Elets in Russia was an enquiry relating to the supply of new centrifugals. That was back in 2010. Following success- ful commissioning of four B1300 batch-type and two K2300 continuous centrifugals in 2011, it took another two years until BMA received further enquiries for a range of equipment, in August 2013.

The Elets plant is one of a number of factories built in the 1960s in the former Soviet Union by German companies (this one by Buckau). It is one of just a few plants in Europe without its own power and steam generation, receiving both electrical and thermal energy in the form of steam from a municipal power station instead. In such conditions, a sugar factory would not normally have much chance of survival in the fierce competition.

We quickly found out that the situation was quite different here. In 2006, the factory had been taken over by an agricultural holding, one of Russia‘s top 50 businesses in the industry. We had not counted on the investors‘ ambition and keen business sense

With plenty of ambition into the future

During one of their next visits, BMA employees were told that orders had been placed for both the steam generation plant and the necessary turbine. Work was able to start on the reconstruction and extension of the plants for the core process. The target beet processing rate is 8,000 to 10,000 t/d (currently about 5,000 t/d).

In late 2013 and early 2014, we received enquiries for major items such as the extraction plant, equipment for the evaporator station, and supplies and services for the sugar house. Quotes were sent and negotiated. BMA Russia was fully integrated in these activities.

In March 2014, another two K3300 centrifugals for the B-product station and a molasses-massecuite mingler for C-product were ordered. In May 2014, the contract was signed for supply of an extraction plant with a beet processing rate of 8,000 t/d (countercurrent cossette mixer with a diameter of 6.0 m x 8.0 m, extraction tower with a diameter of 8.9 m x 22.63 m).

Since the investors‘ decision hinged on keeping costs to a minimum, local manufacture of component parts for the plant was agreed. Following several years of good collaboration with the Komsomolets factory in Tambov, they will once more be the manufacturer. Given the considerable total investment by the customer, commissioning of the extraction plant is scheduled no earlier than 2016.

In late July 2014, another contract was signed for supply of three complete falling-film evaporators (2 x 3,000 m2, 1 x 4,000 m2), to be commissioned in 2015. What was curious with this project was that no local manufacturer was found who could offer evaporator parts within schedule and at a lower price than BMA, although intense efforts were made.

Following a decision at short notice by the investors, an additional order was placed in November 2014 for a complete drying system for white sugar (capacity: 65 t/h). This is based on a combined sugar drying and cooling drum (with a diameter of 4.0 m x 13.0 m) and is due to be commissioned in the 2015 campaign.

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