Sustainability
Our strategy
Area of action 1:
Innovation partner for sustainable technologies for the processing of agricultural raw materials
Area of action 2:
Sustainable, durable, and safe products
Area of action 3:
Climate-neutral and future-proof production
Area of action 4:
Healthy, productive, and satisfied employees
Area of action 5:
An appreciative corporate culture
Our commitment to decarbonization
As an internationally active manufacturer of machinery and production equipment for the sugar industry, we are committed to a sustainable future.
We focus on resource-efficient, energy-efficient production, support our customers’ decarbonization initiatives, and actively contribute to helping them achieve their energy efficiency and sustainability goals.
In 2024, we reduced our emissions (Scope 1 3) to 4,723 tCO2e (–7.5%).
Actions at our location in braunschweig
manufacturing and administrative areas
of 1,054.16 metric tons of CO₂
Certificates
Sustainability with suppliers and customers
Sustainability as a formal selection criterion for our suppliers
When selecting new suppliers, BMA systematically considers sustainability aspects in addition to price, quality, and delivery reliability.
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Continuous Supplier Development
BMA understands sustainability as a continuous process along the supply chain. The goal is to create transparency and achieve gradual improvements together with suppliers, for example through energy efficiency measures or social standards.
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Advancing decarbonization with a BMA Extraction Tower
In 2024, we successfully delivered a new extraction tower for our customer Nordzucker at their Uelzen factory. Beyond its impressive dimensions, standing 40 meters tall with a diameter of 12 meters, the project makes a meaningful contribution to decarbonization.
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Contributing to energy-efficient crystallisation
Our customer, Cosun Beet Company, is taking significant measures to reduce CO₂ emissions in sugar production at its Vierverlaten and Dinteloord factories.
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Sustainability as a formal selection criterion for our suppliers
When selecting new suppliers, BMA systematically considers sustainability aspects in addition to price, quality, and delivery reliability.
Read more
Continuous Supplier Development
BMA understands sustainability as a continuous process along the supply chain. The goal is to create transparency and achieve gradual improvements together with suppliers, for example through energy efficiency measures or social standards.
Read more
Advancing decarbonization with a BMA Extraction Tower
In 2024, we successfully delivered a new extraction tower for our customer Nordzucker at their Uelzen factory. Beyond its impressive dimensions, standing 40 meters tall with a diameter of 12 meters, the project makes a meaningful contribution to decarbonization.
Read more
Contributing to energy-efficient crystallisation
Our customer, Cosun Beet Company, is taking significant measures to reduce CO₂ emissions in sugar production at its Vierverlaten and Dinteloord factories.
Read more
Social responsibility at BMA
The employees, apprentices and trainees at BMA are driven by different goals. While some of them strive for professional development, others would like to spend more time with their families. We will gladly support all of them on their own path. With projects such as our Kinder-Werk crèche facility or the PRO ASS training cooperative, we aim to improve the development opportunities for our employees and people of any age from the Braunschweig region.
- Kinder-Werk
- BMA Foundation
- PRO ASS
- AntiRost
- Building bridges
Kinder-Werk
Family or career? This is a choice that BMA employees do not have to make. They can leave their children in the loving care of the Kinder-Werk crèche staff. Kinder-Werk is a joint project by BMA, the Braunschweig region’s employer’s association, the BLSK/Nord LB bank, the Öffentliche Versicherung insurance company, and the companies eck*cellent IT GmbH and HUP AG. In setting up the crèche facility in 2009, BMA demonstrated its foresight in a society that is increasingly striving to achieve compatibility of family and career.
BMA Foundation
Since 1978, the BMA Foundation has been providing support to young scientists, as well as training, education and childcare. One example is the organisation Kinder-Werk, which has been receiving support and funding from the BMA Foundation for some years now.
PRO ASS
The future belongs to perfectly trained professionals. PRO ASS, a service company of the BMA Group, provides young people with a good professional education, while guaranteeing high-quality further training or retraining opportunities for adults in the field of mechanical and plant engineering. The range of training options offered by PRO ASS is available not only to BMA employees, trainees and apprentices, but to companies in the entire Braunschweig region, who can thus benefit from the well-equipped BMA training workshops and competent teaching staff – a concept for success, not just for individual people but for the whole region.
AntiRost
You may equate retirement with boredom – but that’s not the case at AntiRost Braunschweig. AntiRost, a non-profit association for retired craftsmen and women and industry workers, provides opportunities for people with similar interests to learn new skills and share their knowledge with others. Since 2004, AntiRost has occupied a workshop on the premises of Braunschweigische Maschinenbauanstalt AG, making BMA one of its first major sponsors. The refurbished 100-year old factory building houses a range of workshops for practising both crafts and arts. AntiRost is particularly committed to helping children and young people find their way in life and in the world of work.
Building bridges
“Building bridges” is a project by the Braunschweig, Salzgitter and Wolfsburg community foundations that involves public welfare organisations submitting project proposals to companies in the region. BMA believes in and fully supports this kind of social engagement. Which is why we let our employees take leave for a day to help out in the organisation selected.
Our projects
AntiRost
Sharing knowledge and skills across generations
Kinder-Werk
Professional childcare for BMA families
PRO ASS
Developing tomorrow’s experts
Brücken bauen
Supporting local communities
BMA Foundation
Fostering education and social impact