Austin Detonator as part of Austin Powder offers worldwide customer service in blasting and mining operations.
With our 185 years, 6000 employees, and over 20,000+ annual blasts in blasting and mining operations, we are ready to meet any challenge. Whether your operation is in the United States, Canada, Europe, Latin America, Asia, Austria, and Pacific or Africa, we have you covered.
• Improve your operation
• Solve your issues
• Save your money
• Procedures (design, drilling, …)
• Blast vibrations (blast timing, charge weight, …)
• Air overpressure (stemming, blast timing …)
• Blasting misfires (causes, elimination, …)
• Fragmentation
• Blast timing (inter-hole, inter-row, …)
• Loading scheme (base charge, explosive type, …)
• Blast geometry (burden, spacing, …)
• Drill hole parameters (diameter, inclination, …)
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Red Diamond is the main manufacturing facility for Austin Powder Company and it taps the local resources to provide a safe working environment with the technical people on site so they can supply quality products to the end use customer. They produce bagged ANFO, packaged blended products, different sizes of detonating cord, cast boosters, packaged emulsion, and bulk emulsion products. The recently added product line is the energetic materials plant which is used to produce PETN which will be used in cast boosters and detonating cord.
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In 2009 Austin Powder Company began a partnership with Carmeuse at their Maysville Operation. Kursten Walton, Carmeuse Regional Purchasing Manager described Austin Powder’s work at Carmeuse as the successful integration of competitive purchase price, serviceability and value added services including a suite of technical service specialties that support the total blasting process from start to finish. This is done by establishing baselines, making recommendations and dialing in the ideal result.
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Buscobel has been mining granite since 1880 and Luck Stone bought it in 1930. They produce a million and a half tons of material per year and ship it by rail and truck. Bryan Smith, Mine Development and Blasting Manager Luck Stone Corp says that “Without drilling and blasting we have nothing but a beautiful rock deposit.” And that’s where Austin Powder Company comes in. Austin Powder partners with Luck Stone to provide a down hole service to supply the bulk explosives. It’s a true partnership. If there are any issues Austin Powder jumps right in and get’s their hands dirty to get the issue resolved.
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