The global sugar industry relies on continuous centrifugals from BMA. An update of the K3300F was recently launched – a proven formula for success with new enhanced features: excellent separation, considerable capacity and a high level of automation, low maintenance and a long service life.

A major North American sugar producer has placed an order with BMA for manufacture of a cooling crystalliser for first seed massecuite. BMA had previously carried out a feasibility study and detailed engineering for the customer. The production of first seed massecuite in a cooling crystalliser is a tried and tested concept, made possible with equipment planned, manufactured and commissioned by…

Interesting facts about BMA products, new international customer projects, upcoming webinars, training courses and presentations: read the latest information about the BMA world and developments in the sugar industry on our social media channels. On LinkedIn, BMA has recently reached 4,000 followers – a big thank you to everyone for their interest! You can also follow us on Facebook or subscribe…

Effective 1 May 2023, Dr Arend Wittenberg will be the new CEO of the company.

A new chapter in this success story: Angren Shakar has placed an order with BMA for expansion of its refinery in Uzbekistan. When the factory was commissioned, nine years ago, we were responsible for the technological installations including all machinery, apparatus, piping, electrics and automation. Now the focus for BMA is on increasing output – and the supply of new machinery and equipment.

BMA has received a new order for the manufacture and supply of 17 centrifugals from Pantaleon Group, one of Latin America’s largest sugar producers.

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 sugar refinery based in the area, ensures its supply with sugar. BMA is building a sugar cooling and drying plant for this customer.

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 topics on all major channels for a number of years now.

In July 2021, BMA America celebrated its second anniversary at the new site in Charlotte, North Carolina. Strengthening its core competencies Sales, Spare Parts, Service, Engineering and Project Management has yielded excellent results. BMA America is the partner for customers in the Americas.

In December 2020, the Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative beet sugar factory in Wahpeton, North Dakota, USA, decided to upgrade its cooling crystallisation process for C product. They opted for the OVC cooling crystalliser from BMA, which perfectly matches the factory’s requirements following a facelift.

Last year we reported here on an order from the Finnish corporation Fazer for the supply, assembly and commissioning of crystallisation equipment for xylose and xylitol, and for the supply of a drying plant. This innovative project has progressed well: in collaboration with BMA, Fazer have successfully commissioned their crystallisation plant.

BMA has been commissioned by Oman Sugar Refinery Company via Jebsen & Jessen Industrial Solutions GmbH to supply a sugar refinery. The refinery shall be characterised by state-of-the-art technology and a high degree of automation, so that it can be operated with an optimal energy consumption at high efficiency.

Overhauling the existing or installing new equipment? At Cosun Beet Company’s sugar factory at Dinteloord, three cooling crystallisers (from Selwig & Lange, built in 1984) should initially be replaced, since the cooling water coils were increasingly leaking. A rough comparison of the costs, however, led to the decision to replace only the cooling coils.

BMA has always been well-known in Latin America for batch and continuous centrifugals. In Mexico alone, our largest market within the Americas, we have sold more than 400 centrifugals since the 1980s. In 2019, we started a very interesting project together with Grupo Beta San Miguel at the El Potrero cane sugar factory: the replacement of all 34 centrifugals in the refinery as well as on the…

For over 25 years, the Taiwan Sugar Corporation (TSC) refinery in Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan has relied on G1250 centrifugals from BMA. Now, our customer wanted a centrifugal upgrade – with the refinery in operation. We successfully completed the project in summer 2021.

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 the pandemic-induced break, the whole professional community is relieved and the calendars are filled again with dates for trade fairs, conferences and symposia. We at BMA are highly delighted about this and we are busily engaged in planning our…

BMA is known for its high quality and performance standards, which are reflected directly in machine efficiency. To reliably uphold these standards, the technologies for BMA’s entire range of machinery, plants and equipment are continuously improved and updated. A perfect example are BMA’s flagship products, sugar centrifugals.

Raffinerie Tirlemontoise in Tienen, Belgium, will in future be processing all beet in an extraction tower from BMA. The new extraction plant is designed for a slice rate of 14,500 t/d. BMA’s scope of delivery comprises engineering, assembly including the steel structure, and commissioning.

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 finally back again. It took place in Orlando, USA – and a team from BMA was there.

BMA machinery and equipment are known for their superior quality and durability. And if a problem does arise, customers can rely on our service technicians for corrective maintenance and repair. As did Südzucker AG, in the case of a damaged extraction tower (built in 1986) at its Offstein plant. By the start of the campaign, it was ready for service again.

Engineering, the supply of machinery and equipment, assembly supervision and commissioning: BMA is in charge of much of the work involved in the construction of the new 3,000 tpd sugar refinery for Dhaka Sugar. The roofs of the buildings are in place and the large plants have been installed – in time for the start of the rainy season in Bangladesh.

BMA’s key role in the construction of Dhaka Sugar’s new refinery in Bangladesh is not limited to engineering, equipment and commissioning. We are also responsible for training the team who will be operating the 3,000 tpd plant. This started off in quite unusual circumstances – as a remote course.

At first glance, the Federal Aviation Office (LBA) and BMA appear not to have much in common, other than being based in Braunschweig. But there are a number of things they share. An example: security has a high priority for both of them. From time to time, the LBA – the higher federal authority for civil aviation – uses our logistics warehouse to put the skills of explosives detection dogs to the…

Within the Nigerian sugar industry, the BUA Group has an exceptional position, since it is the only one among the large-scale enterprises that runs a sugar refinery in the metropolitan area of Lagos. All factories of the BUA Group rely on state-of-the-art technology, and they can count on BMA as a reliable partner in this matter – that’s also the case with the latest project for the supply of nine…

The new series of massecuite pumps from BMA started off as a medium-sized design, which could then be scaled down for smaller pumps or scaled up for larger models. While careful design and thorough testing at the intermediate stages do ensure successful implementation, only a final performance run will bring certainty that a development goal has been reached.

Magyar Cukor, a sugar producer based in Kaposvár, Hungary, has ordered seven E1810 batch centrifugals from BMA. These machines have a range of benefits, among them their exceptional reliability during operation.

In Latin America, BMA is known for its high-performance centrifugals – and we also enjoy a very good reputation thanks to our expert engineering team. On behalf of La Providencia, BMA is currently planning an increase in the cane sugar factory’s processing capacity.

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 four months, as they would result in huge financial losses. Which is why sugar factories do their utmost to prepare machinery and equipment for the campaign.

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 losses. Every hour of machine downtime is money lost. What you need in that situation is immediate help without any red tape – even outside office hours and particularly at weekends.

In the sugar industry, knowledge transfer is the key to greater efficiency. The Academy is now offering its training solutions online as well. This allows us to make our knowledge available to everybody, so machinery and plants can be operated efficiently and safely.

The corona crisis presents a challenge for corporate communications, too. But digital communication is bringing people worldwide closer together, despite the pandemic and geographical distance.

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 year for a conference lasting several days. Last year, the focus was once again on networking – though of a different type.

BMA has been working on its digitalisation strategy smart4sugar for a digitally networked sugar factory since 2018. The aim is to make machine and production data available at any time and from anywhere in the world, tapping unused potential and increasing a factory’s efficiency. Our approach has been to develop a proprietary hardware, as an interface to the Microsoft Azure cloud.

At the end of last year, BMA successfully commissioned a mini sugar refinery at San Diego, California, for California Sugar Equipment LLC (Zucarmex Group). Because of the pandemic, BMA was unable to be at the construction site at all times. But with our remote solution, we were able to provide customer support.

Over the past ten years, BMA has successfully commissioned more than 200 centrifugals in Ukraine. At the Podillya Foods Company and the Gorodishche-Pustovarovsky sugar factory, we have installed the new generation of control systems featuring smart.monitoring. This monitoring service lets factories access live operating data from E1810 batch centrifugals, at any time and from anywhere.

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 generation’s eating habits, including a rapid rise in sugar consumption. For 2030 this is forecast to grow even further to 18.6m tonnes. The new Dafeng Yinmore Sugar refinery built together with BMA plays an important part in meeting this demand.

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 protect BMA’s innovations and expertise. They help us optimise our processes and protect the environment.

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 our shared success story, with a project for upgrade and capacity extension of the Turhal sugar factory. BMA also carried out work for the Turkish Safi Holding.

Programs and apps are becoming ever more intuitive and user friendly – also the centrifugal software from BMA. With our new graphical user interface for the E and K series, we are setting standards in the sugar industry.

“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 to the BMA After-sales team. Which is why we decided to act, starting on the implementation of our Webshop project in mid-2020. In addition to deciding on the parts to be offered online, the team’s main task was to adapt internal processes and…

How do you keep successful machinery and equipment attractive? The approach is well known from the automotive industry: minor changes are made to a car model over several development cycles, to ensure that the basic concept remains competitive and attractive to buyers for years or even decades. In a development context, this is known as a facelift.

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 sustainable information to employees or encourage them to improve? One not entirely new concept is the so-called gamification approach. The gamification approach starts with the digital methods and didactics of learning concepts. This means a playful…

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

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 fluctuations. In this context, the issue of liquidity also plays a major role.

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 than 25 years. We’re also proud of our successful collaboration with both plants of the Central Sugars Refinery (CSR).

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 sugar refinery based in the area, ensures its supply with sugar. BMA is building a sugar cooling and drying plant for this customer.

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 largest extraction plant ever built, and are responsible for its integration with the overall factory concept.

Several years ago, the American Crystal Sugar Company (ACS) started to systematically modernise their Drayton, North Dakota factory. In 2019, it was the turn for a new BMA sugar dryer and a VKT vertical continuous pan for B product.

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 for our study on the crystallisation behaviour of solutions containing xylose or xylitol.

A new chapter in a successful collaboration: because of the COSUMAR Group’s positive experiences with equipment from BMA, such as our vertical continuous pans (VKT) or our falling-film evaporators (FFE), the SUTA sugar factory continues to put its trust in us.

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 Caroline Ulsamer, who joined Human Resources at our Braunschweig site as a working student in April 2019. Caroline’s great passion is dancing.

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 factory’s development for many years.

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 and Chinese project partners. For the East Asia Sugar Group, the Chinese subsidiary of Mitr Phol Group, high product quality and low-energy processes are constant targets. Which is why its 20,000 TCD cane sugar factory and 1,000 TPD back-end refinery…

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 Swedish site in the process – with the help of BMA.

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 of improving the sugar process by optimising energy consumption and increasing sugar output – which is where BMA steps in

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 time, we have developed many methods and plants, as well as continuously expanding our knowledge. The involvement by BMA and its employees in international associations and professional organisations for sugar technologists are one factor of our…

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 “KURSKSAKHARPROM” sugar factory in Russia.

ISO 50001 is the name of the standard for establishing a rigorous and comprehensive energy management system at BMA. Its implementation is having many positive effects on our company.

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 experiences gained in the field, driven by our customers’ high standards. This is equally true for interface design.

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 sugar factory near Numan in northern Nigeria. Now we are upgrading the factory.

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 of centrifugal housings and frames.

In 2018, BMA management undertook a fundamental review and evaluation of BMA America’s commercial, organisational, operational, and financial situation. The result of this analysis was a reorientation of the Company.

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 and Udon Thani in the north of Thailand near the border with Laos.

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 can access the quality management platform at any time and from anywhere.

First-class planning of new plants and smooth commissioning procedures, reducing energy consumption and increasing output for existing plants: BMA’s engineering expertise has many benefits.

BMA Russia has been consistently expanding the manufacture of technical equipment. As a result, far more locally produced top-range technology from BMA is available for sugar factories in Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

Buying a new centrifugal is an investment decision that requires careful consideration, not just in times when budgets are tight. Which is why the right configuration really matters. Ultimately those supposedly small details can make all the difference.

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 steam dryer (WVT), and increase the beet processing rate. Quite a list of items – leading to a whole range of questions.

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, his passion for sugar technology, and how his colleagues in Braunschweig helped him settle in.

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 possibly moving from a flat into a house – constant change. But if we did not constantly develop and learn, there would be no progress.

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 reported on its progress in several issues of BMA Info. Now, commissioning of the factory has just been completed.

Hulunbuir Shengtong Sugar Technology Co. Ltd. has been planning to expand its beet sugar business in Hulunbuir, the northernmost region of Inner Mongolia, since early 2017.

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 production of very high-quality white sugar.

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 completed engineering projects in El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and ­Panama. At the end of a project, a contract for equipment from BMA often follows, and this is what happened in Colombia.

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 their evaporator station. Their aim: creating better operating conditions for the whole station.

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 solve one problem: the large ­differences in temperature between the seasons.

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 new opportunities.

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 evaporator station in a cane sugar factory with 6,000 t/d capacity.

Operation of the new juice purification station at the Znamenskiy sugar factory in Russia is based on the pre-carbonatation principle. What makes this method so special? And how can beet sugar factories and sugar refineries benefit from state-of-the-art physical and chemical juice purification?

About three years ago, BIA (Biomass Industries Associates), who specialise in EPCM contracts in the MENA region, awarded BMA several major orders for key equipment for the main process stations of the Al Reef sugar refinery. The first stage of the project has now been completed and the refinery is taking shape.

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 engineers. One outcome of this study has been the installation of four falling-film evaporators (FFE) for different effects, and of a large 5-chamber vacuum pan.

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 diameter x 8 m), also built by BMA.

With around 190 million people, Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country. BMA assists Nigerian sugar producers in their task of making Nigeria self-sufficient in sugar. This includes knowledge transfer.

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 Things (IoT). In November 2018, BMA hosted a symposium under the motto “Smart enough? The sugar industry in the digital age“.

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 the smart4sugar solution from BMA.

One process step in sewage treatment plants involves adding flocculants to sewage sludge after biological treatment, for dehydration of the sludge before disposal. BMA has managed to improve this process ­considerably.

Passion for Progress is the guiding principle for all BMA employees. We collect ideas and gain experiences, make suggestions for improvement, and close gaps in our knowledge. Our ­motivation is to continuously improve our products.

Operating conditions in cane sugar factories are changing everywhere the world – to such an extent that a fundamental review of the production concept has become necessary. One major aspect is automation.

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

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

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 the sugar sector in Eastern Europe.

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 reflected in the trade fair world.

For our centrifugal experts in After-Sales, regular meetings are a long-established tradition. Now BMA’s on-site assembly staff in the project business have followed suit: they had their first meeting in Braunschweig at the end of last year.

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 alone. This is reflected in our football team.

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 2018, has made this dream come true. He has turned his hobby, ballooning, into a small enterprise.

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 2017 – and now, a few months later, they are falling again. Analysts are expecting a record global harvest and considerable production surpluses for the 2017/2018 campaign. So the sugar market will continue to be full of surprises. Particularly where…

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 three kilometres from the coast, on a reclaimed land site. A whole new industrial area will be developed here, with excellent links to global trade routes.

Basic engineering, detailed engineering and the piping design for the sugar house: those were our job specifications from the Yunan Yinmore Group in China. In November 2017, BMA completed the 4,000 t/d refinery project and handed over all documentation.

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 solutions to the sugar and food industries, for single process steps and complete factories alike.

The Japanese Mitsui Group has commissioned Guangxi Construction Engineering (GCE), based in Nanning, China, with building a cane sugar factory for its Kaset Phol subsidiary in Thailand. In this project, the engineering experts from BMA play an important role, because Mitsui have high standards regarding process efficiency and sugar quality.

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 distinguishes the new plant from the old one? First of all its capacity, which will be seven times higher.

Most drying and cooling processes require large amounts of energy. Which is why cost and energy efficiency are top priorities for dryers from BMA. Such as the two plants we built for a beet sugar factory at Hrebinky.

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 maintenance, diffusers are often the equipment of choice.

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 centrifugals, 30 pumps, 20 batch pans, four dryers and one diffuser, giving us excellent references from both the private and public sectors.

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 screen for gold mining built by our team.

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 so successful?

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 automation technology.

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 the first company who tried to process beet cossettes in continuous operation on an industrial scale. It was the starting point for a technology that is in use around the globe today.

Storing, managing and sharing data and information: for the efficient organisation of large projects, BMA uses a specially developed document management system (DMS). We now offer our customers a tailor-made version of this DMS.

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 dynamic machinery such as centrifugals, a special service we offer is handling oversized plants and apparatus.

Pumps of various types can be found in many places throughout a sugar factory: centrifugal pumps, for instance, move cossette/juice mixtures, and positive-displacement pumps discharge runoff. Then there are massecuite pumps. They move crystal suspensions, so-called massecuites, between, say, the vertical continuous pan and the centrifugal station or the cooling crystalliser.

Since its beginnings, BMA has implemented thousands of projects for customers across the globe, each of them unique. Our technical, financial, geographical, administrative and time resources form the wealth of experience and expertise we rely on in our projects.

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. Which is why BMA offers its customers a wide range of preventive maintenance and repair services.

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 our products, ourselves and our international organisation. So we make no compromises.

Since its beginnings, BMA has developed many technical innovations. That is reflected in our vision, Passion for Progress. The focus is especially on our Research & Development (R&D) team, the BMA department that transforms this vision into reality.

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 December 2017.

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 Autonomous Region, which accounts for over 60 % of national sugar production.

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 employees enjoy working as a team and crossing the finish line together.

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 remains to be seen how strong a trend this is and how long it will continue. Already influences from various sources are felt, for instance, excess production, the currency development of the Brazilian real, and speculative trading.

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 evidence of this development and the reason why the country's processing capacities need to be expanded. BMA is delighted to help – with engineering services and equipment for a new refinery at Dafeng.

Available now – the new, extremely compact model of the K3 series: the K3080.
Meet the new addition to our product range of continuous centrifugals, the extremely compact K3080. It has excellent DNA: with more than 500 machines commissioned since 2010, the K3 series has been setting new standards in centrifugal design. The K3080 succeeds the K850 and K1100. It is the perfect solution for use in…

BMA supplies equipment to Nippon Beet Sugar Manufacturing
StateAn extraction tower and a countercurrent cossette mixer – these are the items of equipment BMA is supplying to Japan’s largest sugar producer. What Nippon Beet Sugar Manufacturing wants to achieve is greater reliability for the next campaign.

Engineering, procurement, construction: BMA provides complete solutions.
Every order may be unique and specific to one customer, but engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) projects from BMA are a consistent and reliable standard. We are committed to delivering expert solutions made in Germany anywhere in the world.

Strengthening sales in the SEAP region
Physical proximity to customers and providing personal and technical assistance are the keys to continuing business success. With Hong Kong, BMA has placed a new pin on its map of sales offices.

The Olympic motto “faster, higher, stronger” characterised last summer’s Games in Rio de Janeiro. It also aptly describes the development of BMA’s product business. With sales of well over 200 centrifugals in 2016, BMA has consolidated its top position as the world’s leading supplier of centrifugals to the sugar industry. We were able to strengthen products from BMA in our regular markets, as well…

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 improve energy efficiency and sugar output of their Izalco and Chaparrastique cane sugar factories.

The Bruckner tank: three reference projects for BMA Russia
Collaboration between the R&D department at our main site in Braunschweig, Germany, and BMA Russia has resulted in a product that enhances our portfolio for the sugar sector: the Bruckner tank. It removes sediment sludge and ensures thorough cleaning of the circulating flume water.

Why science is of particular importance at BMA
At BMA, we continuously improve our plants and machinery, based on scientific findings from tests, which we use in product development.

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 smells: the drying of sewage sludge using superheated steam. Beet sugar factories have been relying on this technology for some time, but for sewage treatment plants, it is a new approach to sludge disposal and capacity extension.

Sugar factories and refineries opt for a tried and tested method
BMA has a tradition of developing juice purification systems. Milestones include the “Braunschweig Juice Puri cation System 65” and its successor “BMA 78”. The focus of current projects is on upgrading and optimising existing systems and building new ones.

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 to the future orientation of mechanical and plant engineering companies. If manufacturers and researchers are to be believed, entirely new and pro table business models can be established with the digitalisation and networking of products.

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 decades. Our range of products and services includes the sale of equipment and spare parts, as well as service and maintenance.

BMA Automation completes process control system for the Agrosnabsakhar factory
BMA have maintained a fruitful partnership with the Agrosnabsakhar sugar factory, based in Elets in Russia, since 2010. Our subsidiary BMA Automation has played a key role in the factory conversion.

Smart Sequencing for centrifugals in a cluster
Better performance and lower operating costs – these goals are becoming ever more important for the sugar industry. Also in the use of batch centrifugals. BMA focuses especially on improving their energy efficiency.

A new addition to our range of manufacturing methods: water jet cutting
From thermal separation to welding and to moulding, and from machining to surface finishing: BMA uses many different metalworking techniques in its workshops. Now we have further expanded our vertical integration with water jet cutting.

The VKT – a highly efficient process solution
More than 30 years have passed since the first vertical continuous pan (VKT) was commissioned in Germany. Since then, the apparatus has become more and more widely used. Initially in European beet sugar factories; then, in 1995, the first VKT for high-purity products (massecuite purity of about 99.5 percent) was installed in Dubai. In recent years, it…

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 shape that will eclipse all other factories in the country. The plants, due to be commissioned by 2021, include evaporator technology from BMA.

Trade fairs and conferences play an important part for BMA
Even though business is an increasingly digital world, there is nothing like a face-to-face talk at one of our industry’s trade fairs or conferences.

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, LinkedIn, Twitter and other similar websites provide exciting opportunities to find out more about the BMA Group and its global activities.

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 vertical cooling crystalliser with oscillating tube bundles (OVC).

Upgrades improve centrifugal performance and efficiency
Sugar factories and refineries upgrade their centrifugals to keep them up to date, for better performance, efficiency, functionality and hygiene. BMA has now upgraded twelve centrifugals at Nordzucker AG’s Klein Wanzleben factory near Magdeburg in Saxony-Anhalt.

BMA supplies key equipment for Al Reef sugar refinery
The sugar industry in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA region) is growing: existing refineries are increasing their capacity and new plants are under construction. BMA is proud to be involved in many of these projects – such as the construction of the Al Reef refinery in Saudi Arabia. Our customer: Biomass Industries Associates (BIA).

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 market, BMA is represented by its subsidiary BMA Brasil Equipamentos Industriais – manufacturing the latest generation of centrifugals and providing engineering services.