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The executive board of Salzgitter Maschinenbau AG (SMAG) and the shareholders of BMA Braunschweigische Maschinenbauanstalt AG are in agreement: Both companies are working towards a merger. Preparations are in full swing, even though there are still a few matters that need to be resolved. This will give the region between Harz and Heide a strong group of companies with a decidedly international…

Since 1 January 2018, BMA Brazil has been under new management. The new manager, Mr Carlos Vieira, has more than 16 years' experience as a Sales Director and Interim Managing Director for multinational companies in the B2B segment.

Extraction plants from BMA can be found in all beet-producing countries. A new addition, in late 2017, was at the Bihoro sugar factory in Japan. BMA supplied the key components for the extraction tower, a countercurrent cossette mixer, and two pumps for the cossette-juice mixture. The Braunschweig-based manufacturer also handled all engineering services for extraction. As a special feature, all…

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.