Solution to ensure sugar quality
The so-called Capital Circle of China, an area comprising Beijing and Tianjin and Hebei provinces, has a population of 113 million. Jingjin Sugar, a…

Join us on LinkedIn, YouTube and Facebook
Today, social media are very much a part of the sugar industry. BMA has been regularly posting texts, photos and videos on a range of interesting…

More customers thanks to service and spare parts business
In July 2021, BMA America celebrated its second anniversary at the new site in Charlotte, North Carolina. Strengthening its core competencies Sales,…

Plant from BMA for better processes and a higher sugar yield
In December 2020, the Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative beet sugar factory in Wahpeton, North Dakota, USA, decided to upgrade its cooling crystallisation…

One plant configuration for two crystalline products
Last year we reported here on an order from the Finnish corporation Fazer for the supply, assembly and commissioning of crystallisation equipment for…

Start-up scheduled for 2023 – with a processing capacity of 3,000 t/d
BMA has been commissioned by Oman Sugar Refinery Company via Jebsen & Jessen Industrial Solutions GmbH to supply a sugar refinery. The refinery shall…

Successful overhaul by replacement of cooling coils
Overhauling the existing or installing new equipment? At Cosun Beet Company’s sugar factory at Dinteloord, three cooling crystallisers (from Selwig &…

The project includes a study on efficiency increase and power consumption
BMA has always been well-known in Latin America for batch and continuous centrifugals. In Mexico alone, our largest market within the Americas, we…

Cutting-edge automation technology from BMA for Taiwan Sugar Corporation refinery
For over 25 years, the Taiwan Sugar Corporation (TSC) refinery in Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan has relied on G1250 centrifugals from BMA. Now, our…

Symposia and expert conferences take place again – with BMA participating
We have all been waiting a long time for the restart – finally the time has come: on-site trade fairs for the sugar industry have returned. Following…

New model offers greater efficiency and lower energy consumption
BMA is known for its high quality and performance standards, which are reflected directly in machine efficiency. To reliably uphold these standards,…

Tienen sugar factory: high capacity, considerable CO2 savings
Raffinerie Tirlemontoise in Tienen, Belgium, will in future be processing all beet in an extraction tower from BMA. The new extraction plant is…

S.I.T. is back after a 2-year break
Because of the pandemic, Sugar Industry Technologists (S.I.T) had to cancel its annual meeting two years in a row. On 18 and 19 April, the event was…

BMA repairs extraction tower at Südzucker’s Offstein plant
BMA machinery and equipment are known for their superior quality and durability. And if a problem does arise, customers can rely on our service…

BMA in charge of engineering, equipment and commissioning
Engineering, the supply of machinery and equipment, assembly supervision and commissioning: BMA is in charge of much of the work involved in the…

New centrifugal control systems for a successful campaign
In Russia, beet sugar plants are tested to the limits during the campaign. Technical system failures must be avoided at all cost during these three or…

Even in an emergency, customers can rely on BMA

In an emergency, customers can reach BMA 24/7 on +49 531 804 666. The breakdown of a machine, interrupting production, can result in huge financial…

BMA Academy goes online with webinars
In the sugar industry, knowledge transfer is the key to greater efficiency. The Academy is now offering its training solutions online as well. This…

BMA is further expanding its range of digital services with webinars, online presentations and a monthly newsletter.
The corona crisis presents a challenge for corporate communications, too. But digital communication is bringing people worldwide closer together,…

Our international Sales team gets together online
As a global company, BMA relies on the support of its international teams. To foster close collaboration, the whole Sales team normally meets once a…

Development of hardware is a giant leap forward for BMA towards a networked sugar factory
BMA has been working on its digitalisation strategy smart4sugar for a digitally networked sugar factory since 2018. The aim is to make machine and…

Live support at the construction site thanks to remote solution
At the end of last year, BMA successfully commissioned a mini sugar refinery at San Diego, California, for California Sugar Equipment LLC (Zucarmex…

BMA supplies E1810 centrifugals to sugar factories in Ukraine
Over the past ten years, BMA has successfully commissioned more than 200 centrifugals in Ukraine. At the Podillya Foods Company and the…

International cooperation is key to success in the construction of China’s most cutting-edge sugar factory
China’s population of more than 1.4 billion consumed 16.2 million tonnes of sugar in 2020. The country’s urbanisation has changed the younger…

Optimised BMA processes improve performance and protect the environment 
In the last 150 years, BMA has developed and launched a whole range of processes and products. Patents play an important role in this respect, as they…

The benefits: less energy use and higher output.
Kayseri Şeker Fabrikası A.Ş., one of Turkey’s largest sugar producers, has been a BMA business partner since 1955. Now a new chapter has been added to…

Consistent visuals in E and K series for more user friendliness
Programs and apps are becoming ever more intuitive and user friendly – also the centrifugal software from BMA. With our new graphical user interface…

Online ordering of spare parts and components
“I’d like to access the spare parts catalogues and order parts online, even outside BMA’s opening hours” used to be one of the most frequent requests…

BMA boosts efficiency of its OVC cooling crystalliser
How do you keep successful machinery and equipment attractive? The approach is well known from the automotive industry: minor changes are made to a…

How can the gamification approach be used to encourage “learning by playing”? How can digital content be designed in such a way as to communicate…

Kapal Api and BMA go for energy efficiency and sustainability
Cane sugar factory and sustainability. Kapal Api commissions BMA to supply the basic concept and basic engineering for construction of a cane sugar…

BMA range comprises standard and custom solutions.

Customisation of BMA centrifugals for special requirements.

For some time now, small and medium-sized enterprises across the industry have been in a state of upheaval or have been exposed to enormous economic…

GPT refinery reaps benefits of remote solution from BMA
BMA has traditionally been a major partner for the Malaysian sugar industry. With the MSM Group, for instance, we have been doing business for more…

Solution to ensure sugar quality
The so-called Capital Circle of China, an area comprising Beijing and Tianjin and Hebei provinces, has a population of 113 million. Jingjin Sugar, a…

2020 marks the start of a new chapter for our “Info” publication.

BMA is evolving to become a digital service provider

Canal Sugar, a project for the largest beet sugar factory in the world, breaks all records. And BMA plays a key role in it: we are supplying the…

Several years ago, the American Crystal Sugar Company (ACS) started to systematically modernise their Drayton, North Dakota factory. In 2019, it was…

In January 2019, the Finnish company Fazer announced that they would be building a plant to produce the sugar substitute xylitol. That is the context…

A new chapter in a successful collaboration: because of the COSUMAR Group’s positive experiences with equipment from BMA, such as our vertical…

It is by now a good tradition: every year’s BMA Info introduces a member of the BMA team who has an unusual hobby. For this issue, we have spoken to…

The Galion sugar factory on the Caribbean island of Martinique is both a major cultural site and an economic asset. BMA has been involved in the…

BMA regularly implements refinery projects worldwide. Now we have completed a brand new mini refinery for Sucro Canada in Hamilton, Canada.

Our project with the East Asia Sugar Group is a fine example of BMA’s business success in China – and of the smooth collaboration between the German…

Nordzucker have closed the production of refined sugar at Arlöv and moved it to Örtofta, expanding and upgrading their sugar house at the new southern…

Mexico is known as an innovator among sugar producing countries in Latin America. Its sugar industry takes an interest in new technologies and in ways…

For over 160 years, BMA has been the first point of contact for all matters relating to the industrial production and refining of sugar. During this…

Experience is always a good thing. You can build on it in new projects, and it will help you achieve good results. This is what happened with the OOO…

Consumption down, efficiency up: our energy management efforts are paying off
ISO 50001 is the name of the standard for establishing a rigorous and comprehensive energy management system at BMA. Its implementation is having many…

How the interface design of our centrifugals has evolved
In the last 150 years, BMA has developed and launched a range of different centrifugal types. With each new model, we have drawn on research and…

BMA upgrades Nigerian cane sugar factory
BMA has been doing business in Nigeria for about 40 years. As an engineering partner, we played a major role in building the country’s first cane…

Robot-based production line in Braunschweig now running
In our Braunschweig workshops, a robotic system that forms part of a new production line at BMA’s main site has recently taken over the manual welding…

Reorientation of BMA America now complete
In 2018, BMA management undertook a fundamental review and evaluation of BMA America’s commercial, organisational, operational, and financial…

BMA involved in upgrade of Kaset Phol plant
BMA is in charge of a major part of this project: the new refinery at the Kaset Phol cane sugar factory site, located between the cities of Khon Kaen…

A new platform for the BMA Group’s quality strategy
The intranet-based BMA Enterprise Quality Management links all employees of the BMA Group. In the office, at a customer site, or on the road – they…

Our engineering team unites experts from many fields
First-class planning of new plants and smooth commissioning procedures, reducing energy consumption and increasing output for existing plants: BMA’s…

BMA Russia steps up production of plants
BMA Russia has been consistently expanding the manufacture of technical equipment. As a result, far more locally produced top-range technology from…

Throughput, material & more: with centrifugals from BMA, all options are available
Buying a new centrifugal is an investment decision that requires careful consideration, not just in times when budgets are tight. Which is why the…

BMA supplies fluidised-bed steam dryer to Ukraine
The Ukrainian PAO Salivonkovsky Sugar Factory had set itself a number of goals: upgrade its drying plant for beet pulp, integrate a new fluidised-bed…

India, Brisbane, Braunschweig: Dr Omkar Thaval is now at home at BMA
Dr Omkar Thaval works as a Senior Technologist in Engineering at BMA AG in Braunschweig. In this interview, he talks about his unusual career path,…

Dear readers,

We are all familiar with it, from our own life and from those around us: growing up, leaving home, maybe starting a family, and…

The scope of our contract for construction of the new Egyptian Al Nouran sugar factory for Al Sharkiya Sugar Manufacturing (ASSM) is such that we have…

Hulunbuir Shengtong Sugar Technology Co. Ltd. has been planning to expand its beet sugar business in Hulunbuir, the northernmost region of Inner…

What started a few years ago with a contract for basic engineering has become reality: in December 2018, Dafeng Yinmore Sugar’s new refinery started…

In many countries, our molasses-massecuite mingler (MMM) technology is well-established. Now, it has conquered a new market: Latin America.

We have been working hard in Latin America to be considered more than just a manufacturer of centrifugals. Since the beginning of the decade, BMA has…

In December 2017, the Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative in Wahpeton, North Dakota, decided to buy a new falling-film evaporator for the first effect of…

The American Crystal Sugar Company is welcoming a new drum dryer and cooler. This will help operators at the Drayton sugar factory in North Dakota…

Increasing capacity with only a small investment – is that really possible? Adding a fluidised-bed cooler to your drying system opens up a range of…

Bundaberg in the Australian state of Queensland is home to BMA’s first falling-film evaporator (FFE) on the continent: the first effect of an…

Operation of the new juice purification station at the Znamenskiy sugar factory in Russia is based on the pre-carbonatation principle. What makes this…

About three years ago, BIA (Biomass Industries Associates), who specialise in EPCM contracts in the MENA region, awarded BMA several major orders for…

Some years ago, we prepared an energy and upgrade study for the SUTA sugar factory owned by the COSUMAR Group, in close collaboration with SUTA’s own…

A new plant with new capabilities: BMA has delivered a cossette mixer (6.7 diameter x 8.5 m) to Tereos Dobrovice. It replaces an old mixer (5.6…

With around 190 million people, Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country. BMA assists Nigerian sugar producers in their task of making Nigeria…

Digital technologies are changing the way we work. They offer a range of opportunities for increasing ­output, also in sugar production.

In industry, politics and the media, at meetings, confe­rences and trade fairs, there’s no way now of ignoring digitalisation and the Internet of…

Information is a valuable resource. To stay well ahead of the competition, data have to be available and analysed promptly. How can that be done? With…

One process step in sewage treatment plants involves adding flocculants to sewage sludge after biological treatment, for dehydration of the sludge…

Passion for Progress is the guiding principle for all BMA employees. We collect ideas and gain experiences, make suggestions for improvement, and…

Operating conditions in cane sugar factories are changing everywhere the world – to such an extent that a fundamental review of the production concept…

The food industry is always on the lookout for new ideas and concepts for enhancing the nutritional value of foodstuffs. One major contribution comes…

High-quality products, short lead times, high efficiency and flexibility – all of these characterise manufacturing today. Plus, of course, on-time…

Back in 2011, just after it was set up, BMA Russia was only a service centre that employed six engineers. Today, it is the largest engineering firm in…

What’s the first country that comes to mind when we talk about sugar? Brazil, of course. The prominent position of the Brazilian sugar industry is…

For our centrifugal experts in After-Sales, regular meetings are a long-established tradition. Now BMA’s on-site assembly staff in the project…

BMA has a network of subsidiary companies and sales offices that spans the globe. People from over 25 nations work at BMA’s main site in Braunschweig…

The executive boards and shareholders of Salzgitter Maschinenbau AG (SMAG) and BMA Braunschweigische Maschinenbauanstalt AG (BMA) have signed a…

BMA MENA, our Tunisian subsidiary, has moved to new offices in the immediate vicinity of the contracting firm BIA (Biomass Industries Associates).

Floating through the air – who hasn’t dreamed about it... Robert Bessel, Senior Manager Health, Safety & Environment at BMA in Braunschweig since May…

Dear readers,
The only constant is change. That is also true for developments in the sugar market. Sugar prices had only just recovered in autumn…

In Dafeng, our customer Dafeng Yinmore Sugar’s new refinery has been growing ever taller for over a year now. The factory complex is located just…

Basic engineering, detailed engineering and the piping design for the sugar house: those were our job specifications from the Yunan Yinmore Group in…

In over 160 years, the BMA Group has equipped more than 600 factories – an impressive record! Thanks to our wealth of experience, we can offer complex…

The Japanese Mitsui Group has commissioned Guangxi Construction Engineering (GCE), based in Nanning, China, with building a cane sugar factory for its…

Due to be commissioned in 2021: the new sugar factory near the Russian town of Kirsanov, immediately next to the old factory site. And what…

Most drying and cooling processes require large amounts of energy. Which is why cost and energy efficiency are top priorities for dryers from BMA.…

Nigeria may be Africa’s most populous country by far, but it is not the continent’s biggest sugar producer. That is about to change.

Diffuser technology is on the rise. In cane sugar factories requiring extraction plants with outstanding performance, high availability and low…

Over the past 30 years, BMA has made a name for itself in Indonesia as a partner for technology and equipment. We have installed more than 200…

For BMA Brazil, 2017 was again filled with a range of activities relating to centrifugal production.

Gold Rush is a popular reality TV series in the United States. The television location was equipped with the help of BMA America, with a trommel…

Central America is another part of the world where continuous cooling crystallisers (OVC) from BMA are rated highly. So what is it that makes our OVCs…

If you want to be at the cutting edge, you have to be flexible. That applies in particular to business fields that move at breakneck speed – such as…

BMA has been a pioneer in the sugar industry in many ways, such as with the development of extraction towers. In the mid-twentieth century, we were…

Storing, managing and sharing data and information: for the efficient organisation of large projects, BMA uses a specially developed document…

BMA has been a leading supplier of equipment to the international sugar industry for more than 160 years. As well as building complex and highly…

Pumps of various types can be found in many places throughout a sugar factory: centrifugal pumps, for instance, move cossette/juice mixtures, and…

Since its beginnings, BMA has implemented thousands of projects for customers across the globe, each of them unique. Our technical, financial,…

In the cost analysis of a plant, what counts even in the medium term is not the initial investment but operating costs throughout its service life.…

A compromise is a solution that is reached by all sides making concessions and accepted by all stakeholders. But we set the highest standards – for…

Since its beginnings, BMA has developed many technical innovations. That is reflected in our vision, Passion for Progress. The focus is especially on…

BMA first defined its company vision in 2005, in a small booklet that has become a big success. It has been reprinted four times, the last time in…

BMA (Nanning) Industries Co., Ltd. are based right in the heartland of the Chinese cane sugar industry, in Nanning. It is the capital of the Guangxi…

In many sugar-producing regions, they are the most important industry events of the year: the meetings of sugar technologist associations.

BMA likes a challenge – whether it involves running races, playing football matches or towing oversized vehicles. Even in their spare time, BMA…

Dear readers,
By the end of 2015, sugar prices had bottomed out and soon after, analysts recorded a clear rise.

So things are looking up. It…

Construction of the Dafeng refinery is reaching its final stage
As China continues to grow, its wealth is increasing. The rising demand for sugar is…

Available now – the new, extremely compact model of the K3 series: the K3080.
Meet the new addition to our product range of continuous centrifugals,…

BMA supplies equipment to Nippon Beet Sugar Manufacturing
StateAn extraction tower and a countercurrent cossette mixer – these are the items of…

Engineering, procurement, construction: BMA provides complete solutions.
Every order may be unique and specific to one customer, but engineering,…

Strengthening sales in the SEAP region
Physical proximity to customers and providing personal and technical assistance are the keys to continuing…

The Olympic motto “faster, higher, stronger” characterised last summer’s Games in Rio de Janeiro. It also aptly describes the development of BMA’s…

The advantages of a seeding system from BMA
Since 2014, BMA have been working very closely with Grupo CASSA from El Salvador. Our common goal is to…

The Bruckner tank: three reference projects for BMA Russia
Collaboration between the R&D department at our main site in Braunschweig, Germany, and…

Why science is of particular importance at BMA
At BMA, we continuously improve our plants and machinery, based on scientific findings from tests,…

A special drying system for sewage treatment
It takes up very little space, saves up to 95 percent of energy for drying, works fast and produces no…

Sugar factories and refineries opt for a tried and tested method
BMA has a tradition of developing juice purification systems. Milestones include the…

Plans for digitalisation and networks in BMA’s workshops
For some time now, Industry 4.0 has been the term you hear whenever the conversation turns…

An interview with Carsten Rehbock, Senior Manager Engineering

BMA America offers improved service at Greeley
Based in Greeley, Colorado, BMA America has been working on the American continent for several…

BMA Automation completes process control system for the Agrosnabsakhar factory
BMA have maintained a fruitful partnership with the Agrosnabsakhar…

Smart Sequencing for centrifugals in a cluster
Better performance and lower operating costs – these goals are becoming ever more important for the…

A new addition to our range of manufacturing methods: water jet cutting
From thermal separation to welding and to moulding, and from machining to…

The VKT – a highly efficient process solution
More than 30 years have passed since the first vertical continuous pan (VKT) was commissioned in…

Construction of Russia’s largest beet sugar factory is progressing well
Not far from the Russian town of Kirsanov, a beet sugar factory is taking…

Trade fairs and conferences play an important part for BMA
Even though business is an increasingly digital world, there is nothing like a…

BMA offers glimpses of the company on the social media
Social media are gaining in importance – also for BMA. Our new company pro les on Facebook,…

On 29 February 2016, a leap day, Schweizer Zucker AG (SZU) based in Aarberg, Switzerland, placed an order with BMA for supply and installation of a…

Upgrades improve centrifugal performance and efficiency
Sugar factories and refineries upgrade their centrifugals to keep them up to date, for better…

BMA supplies key equipment for Al Reef sugar refinery
The sugar industry in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA region) is growing: existing…

BMA Brazil: study to increase the extraction output of diffusers
Brazil is the number one sugar producer and exporter in the world. In this major…