On 1st July 2005, Fives Cail, as part of a consortium formed with another French company and Turkish companies, won an order from Kayseri Seker for a turnkey sugar beet plant in Bogazliyan in Turkey. The plant will have a capacity of 10,000 tonnes per day.
Under this contract, Fives Cail will supply all the equipment from refining through to packaging and storage of the sugar, all selected from among the most innovative technologies of its range:
- Refining: all equipement
- Evaporation: 5 effects falling film evaporators
- Crystallisation: continuous vacuum pans on 3 strikes, moving layers vertical cooler crystallisers, and the latest generation SUMO pumps
- Centrifugal process: high capacity continuous and non-continuous centrifugals from the latest range
- Drying: multi-tubes
The sugar packaging and storage equipment will be subcontracted.
The contract for the equipment required from receipt of the sugar beet through to production of the lime has been awarded to a french partner, while Oyak-Ekon-Prokon, a joint venture formed by Turkish companies, will supply the local metal working, civil engineering and assembly as well as the Energy part, under the supervision of the french compagnies.
As Kayseri Seker intends to make this plant the group's showcase, it will be highly automated and equipped with the leading technologies. In this regard, Fives Cail was able to stand out from the competition (German companies in particular), both in terms of technological excellence and price. It is thus renewing its vocation as a turnkey contractor, the last deal of this type having been made some ten years ago.
This contract presents a number of major challenges for Fives Cail:
- in terms of market potential, as Turkey is one of the few sugar-producing countries that continues to make investments;
- in terms of lead times, as industrial acceptance, including achievment of performance targets, is scheduled for the end of 2006, i.e. only 18 months after the definitive signing of the contract;
- in terms of technology, as this contract provides the opportunity to install in a single plant the very latest generation of proprietary equipment.
This sugar factory was commissioned with great success in early December 2006.
The performances of the sugar factory, in terms of capacity, sugar quality and energy consumption are above the garanteed values and the provisional acceptance was signed in December 2007.