The executive boards and shareholders of Salzgitter Maschinenbau AG (SMAG) and BMA Braunschweigische Maschinenbauanstalt AG (BMA) have signed a contract for the merger of the two companies. The deal will create a strong group of companies with a focus on internationality situated between Harz and Heide, with an excellent extended portfolio in mechanical engineering and plant construction.

If paper-free information is for you, you’ll be interested to hear that issue 55 of BMA Info is now available online. In its 26 articles with impressive illustrations offering you interesting views of the sugar industry, our corporate magazine once again shows clearly that BMA products and services are at home worldwide.

For eight young people, 1 September 2017 marks a new chapter in their lives: the start of their apprenticeship at BMA in Braunschweig. They will be training as plant mechanics, electronics technicians for automation technology, and machinists.

On 25 August, BMA and the “AntiRost” initiative, joint winners of the Braunschweig Chamber of Commerce’s 2017 “Social Transfer Prize”, were hosts to Lower Saxony’s Prime Minister Stephan Weil. BMA CTO Uwe Schwanke and Günther Hinterberg, who heads the AntiRost initiative, showed Weil around the historic factory complex where AntiRost have set up their workshops. A major topic of discussion was…

The end of August is, once more, a time to mark in your calendar: sugar technologists from Honduras and other Central American countries will hold the joint ATACA/ATAHON congress from 22 to 25 of the month. As in previous years, BMA will be attending the event.

Preparations for the 64rd PHILSUTECH Annual National Convention on August 14 - 18 are nearly completed. BMA’s sales team will be delighted to welcome you in the Philippines.

This year, FENASUCRO & AGROCANA are proudly celebrating their 25th anniversary. BMA are joining in the celebrations. At Booth G05 in Pavilion 2, the plant engineering experts from Germany will be presenting their current portfolio, including the new K3080.

Extraction towers from BMA have been around for more than 70 years. Made in Braunschweig, Germany, these plants have long been best sellers in the global beet sugar industry – and they still are today. There are good reasons for this.

Since the end of May 2017, the Russian pages of the BMA Group’s website have been online. With this offering, the plant engineering experts from Braunschweig are hoping to provide “online support” as business for the Group is growing throughout the Russian language area.

Meet BMA at ASSCT in New Orleans, where the 47th annual meeting of the American Society of Sugar Cane Technologists will be held from 14 to 16 June 2017. In addition to presenting a range of papers, BMA will this year bring along information material about its new centrifugal model.

Not long to go now: from 22 to 24 May 2017, representatives from the beet sugar industry will be meeting at the 5th ESST Conference, hosted this year by the city of Dresden.

In einem festlichen Akt der IHK Braunschweig hat BMA zusammen mit dem Verein AntiRost heute den Sozialtransferpreis 2017 erhalten. Der Verein bietet aus dem Berufsleben geschiedenen ehemaligen Beschäftigten von BMA eine Plattform, sich in sozialen Projekten zu engagieren.

At the HANNOVER MESSE industrial trade fair yesterday, Braunschweig-based plant engineering experts for the sugar industry BMA were announced as winner of the Lower Saxony Foreign Trade Award. Olaf Lies, Minister for Economics, Labour and Transport in the state of Lower Saxony, extended congratulations to BMA’s CTO Uwe Schwanke.

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.

At the end of February 2017, the Enterprise 2.0/Digital Transformation working group of the German Engineering Federation (VDMA) met at the BMA offices in Braunschweig. Representatives from 11 German companies had come to share information and experiences, and to take away new ideas for approaches to the topic.

BMA machinery and plants are known around the globe for their long service life and high availability. Nevertheless, preventive maintenance and repairs are still necessary. Which is where the After-Sales teams from BMA come in. This week, service technicians from six countries gathered in Braunschweig for their annual knowledge sharing and training event.

We would like to wish all customers and business partners of the BMA Group a successful start to the new year.