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  • DÍA INTERNACIONAL DE LA BIODIVERSIDAD
    5/22/2022
    DÍA INTERNACIONAL DE LA BIODIVERSIDAD

    At Austin Powder we are responsible with our flora and fauna, we contribute to the preservation of biodiversity by implementing good environmental practices through quarterly monitoring with: Camera traps or photo-traps at 12 sampling points in the ...

  • Nadia Engler took on new challenges.
    5/12/2022
    Nadia Engler

    As of May 2, Nadia is the new SHES Regional Manager. She joined our Rafaela Plant in September 2010 as SHES Manager (Safety, Hygiene, Environment and Surveillance), and later also joined the Quality area. Nadia is an Environmental Engineer from the U...

  • Raul Quiroga
    4/26/2022
    Raul Quiroga

    Raul started working at Austin Powder Argentina in August 2017 as a Technical Service Engineer at Cerro Vanguardia and in January 2018 he became Head of Operations at Mina Chinchillas, where he currently works. “Before coming to Austin, I had worke...

  • Fernanda Bracaccini
    3/24/2022
    Bracaccini Fernanda

    Meet Fernanda Bracaccini, Quality Analysis, Explosives Division, Austin Powder Argentina....

  • We Make Detonating Cord & Boosters
    3/17/2022
    Detonating Cord & Boosters

    Austin Powder manufacturers a wide variety of detonating cord and cast boosters, both of which contain PETN. Detonating cord is used to initiate detonator-sensitive commercial explosives such as cast boosters and emulsions. Detonating cord is also us...

  • Austin Powder Global
    3/15/2022

    Austin Powder is a privately held company present in 24 countries, with 26 manufacturing facilities and more than 4,500 employees....

  • Austin at Chinchillas Mine: Hard Work By the Numbers
    3/14/2022
    Grupo Aguirre

    The Austin Powder team at the Chinchillas Mine completed 1,000 blasts and four years without accidents or lost time incidents! For his part, Gastón Agustoni, Commercial Manager of Austin Powder Argentina, adds, “Safety is Our First Priority. A...

  • Emilia Salis
    3/1/2022
    Emilia Salis

    Communications and Institutional Affairs Assistant, Juramento Plant, Salta, Argentina...

  • Introducing E*STAR RFID.
    2/28/2022
    ESTAR in mud

    Introducing E*STAR RFID. The RFID feature saves up to 50% of logging time compared to direct contact logging, or any other kind of detonator programming method.  With RFID tagging, the Logger display will still show all the necessary details abou...

  • Our Chemical Products
    2/23/2022
    Chemical Processing

    At Austin Powder, our chemicals are used to make our products. We use natural gas to make ammonia and that enables us to make Nitric Acid, Ammonium Nitrate (AN) PETN, ANFO, and Emulsion. PETN (Pentaerythritol tetranitrate) is a high explosive used to...

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Completion of the First Industrial Operator Course 2023
1/11/2024

“En Austin Powder creemos en el poder transformador de la educación” (expresiondelsur.com.ar)...

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We are a traditional manufacturer of initiation systems for industrial blasting operations and an important technological and research base for production and further development of initiation systems.

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