Engineering & Consulting
BMA Nederland BV focuses on industrial-scale processing of a wide range of renewable raw materials, for which it has the necessary process know-how. BMA Nederland BV provides consulting and engineering services and offers its customers technical solutions, with quality of existing plants, optimising energy and raw material utilisation, and providing concepts for new production plants.
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Engineering & Consulting—expertise and experience in key processes
BMA Nederland BV has more than 50 years knowledge and expertise and worked on a vast number of projects, making it a competent and renowned partner for the potato, snacks, and cheese industries, as well as for selected applications for vegetables, fruit, nuts and coffee processors. BMA Nederland BV offers you optimum solutions, tailored to meet your specific needs. In the sugar and starch sectors, you can also count on BMA’s sound expertise. BMA Nederland BV has furnished convincing evidence of its engineering competence in planning new plants, as well as in expansion and overhaul projects. BMA Nederland BV also has extended knowledge and expertise in vacuum frying.
Engineering & consulting — central elements
Our customers have very specific expectations when requesting BMA’s services, and there is an increasing trend to distinguish between planning work on the one hand and equipment supplies on the other. In providing planning services, BMA Nederland BV has considerably extended its range of services beyond those of a supplier of machinery, covering most of the key processes involved with the processing of renewable raw materials. Benefiting from its long-standing experience as a supplier of machinery and equipment, BMA is in an excellent position to offer its national and international customers the necessary engineering and advisory services in this sector.
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Major areas for BMA engineering
- Potato and snack industry: Washing, peeling, cutting, blanching, cooking, mashing, mixing, conditioning, shaping, drying, deep-frying, atmospheric and vacuum frying, extruding, agglo-merating, deep-freezing, seasoning
- Cheese handling and ripening: Robotic handling systems, plastic coating, waxing, cheese cleaning, de-rimming, drying, weighing, labeling, packaging
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Team of experts
The technological capacity of BMA’s team of experts is the result of a large number of projects successfully completed in different production sectors. Key words such as energy management, today’s subjects about environmental sustainability like climate changes and better use of resources which extends across a range of main processes like potato handling, peeling, blanching, drying, frying and freezing thereof, underline BMA’s expertise, which extends across a range of products. Other major areas are the main processes of logistic systems for cheese handling and ripening. Starting from this sound basis, BMA Nederland BV aims at developing concepts that provide customers with tailor-made solutions providing a maximum of efficiency. Our core team of process and projects engineers is in charge of the projected planning work. Different computing tools and CAE programs assist the teams in their planning work
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Scope of services
BMA Nederland BV offers solutions that are to the customers specifications and requirements. Main elements of the service portfolio are factory expansion programmes, process optimisation and energy management. Feasibility studies can be included and will be handled in close collaboration and consultation with the customer. BMA‘s team of experts offers advice and guidance in all the fields mentioned in order to define, together with the customer, the potential available for optimisation, and to make this potential available on a near-term basis.
For major projects, there is a set of three graded studies:
- Basic concept: preparation of mass and energy balances; block graphs for process visualisation; report.
- Design concept: preparation of mass and energy balances; preparation of a process flow diagram (PFD), complete with a list showing the necessary equipment; draft layout plan; report.
- Basic engineering: mass and energy balances; list of necessary equipment including specifications; process flow diagram (PFD); layout plan for all items of equipment; list of control loops for measuring and control equipment; report.
The exact scope of services can be adjusted for specific project studies.
BMA as the main contractor
BMA’s team of experts also includes experienced project managers who are in a position to accompany complete projects—from first concept to the final plant commissioning.
Features and advantages
- Better understanding of real needs and expectations
- Improved delivery of capital projects
- Improved information about ROI for product development or new plant designs
- Customized solutions with best available technology
- Improvement recourse productivity, product quality and safety of existing plants, - same output from lower input
- Energy, raw material and consumables savings due to proper operating criteria, equipment selection for the lowest usage and better management of existing systems
- Lower cost of ownership
- Identification of issues before the problems find you
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