News 2010

Urgently required space for further growth available – conversion work completed on BMA’s premises

June, 2009

BMA’s origins as railway repair shop are indeed unknown to many people. Large areas have been used now as foundation for a solid conversion. Part of the repair shop building had been newly built in 1936 with such a massive structure that now for conversion, special saws had to be used to cut out reinforced concrete walls of partly 0.5 m thickness. Static problems due to floor loadings above the existing ceiling were not to be expected since this area was formerly used to store spare parts for steam locomotives. A re-calculation showed an admissible floor loading of 4 tons per m2, whereas for today’s office buildings 250 kg/m2 are required. This area being integrated, a new useful area of 4,000 m2 has been created, with 525 m2 alone for the BMA Automation shop.

	June, 2010

In a construction period of 14 months, areas of the old railway repair shop have been rebuilt, and BMA Automation GmbH has just moved into most of the new rooms.

BMA is awarded the transfer price 2009 from Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster for the project "H2-ServPay"

We lately recognised an increased demand for services and assistance, particularly in the field of centrifugals. Therefore we decided to extend and adapt the services offered, for the time being for centrifugals, in order to answer our customers’ needs more intensively.

Film "transfer price 2009" [>>] (language: German)

For this purpose, we have been working in the research project “H2-ServPay” in cooperation with Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. In this project, the customer’s readiness to pay for all-in-one problem solutions ... [>>]

June 2010

South Africa - FIFA Worldcup 2010

Our agent, Sucrotech, is already in Worldcup fever and waiting for the event... well prepared!

Let's go South Africa!
Let's go Germany!

BMA at XXVII ISSCT Congress in Veracruz, Mexico

Once again, BMA was represented at the ISSCT Sugar Cane Congress (International Society of Sugar Cane Technologists), the largest of its kind worldwide, which was held from 7 to 11 March 2010 in Veracruz, Mexico.

More than 50 exhibitors from cane sugar and beet sugar-producing countries around the world presented developments and research projects for the cane sugar industry and agriculture. One topical issue was the production of bioethanol, for which cane sugar is the key feedstock.

BMA AG and BMA Automation GmbH presented their current product range in addition to their latest developments. Together with our representatives in Mexico, Equipos para Ingenios S.A., we were able to engage in very interesting discussions with trade visitors. They expressed a particular interest in our new K3300 continuous centrifugal as well as the new sensor technology from BMA Automation GmbH - DynFAS MW and DynFAS NIR.

April, 2010

New extraction tower for Aarberg/Switzerland

A few days ago we started delivering a new extraction tower to the Aarberg sugar factory. Over the next six weeks, a total of about 695 tons will have to be moved all the way down to Switzerland.

Our assembly and logistics teams plan road haulage on this scale a long time in advance. Regulations for heavy haulage transport differs from one country to the next. In Germany, 27 tons and over fall under this category, while in Switzerland, 20 tons are already considered to be an abnormal load. Goods transports of this size have to be escorted by the police. In Germany they are only allowed during the night.

A thorough route survey is carried out so that any obstacles, such as sharp curves on motorway slip roads or bridges that heavy-goods vehicles cannot manoeuvre, are known and the required measures can be taken in advance. The maximum number of lorries in one convoy is two.

The route from Braunschweig to our customer in Aarberg is some 760 kilometres long and takes four days. The heaviest item, the bottom-end shaft, weighs 35 tons, and the largest item, the screen section, is 11m long, 5.7m wide and 3.4m high.

March 2010