In 2023, Austin Powder established a strategically focused corporate innovation function to ensure that good ideas are encouraged, identified, shared, reviewed, prioritized, resourced, developed rewarded and implemented to generate value.
At Austin Powder Austria in St. Lambrecht, the first Austin-wide plant that uses plasticized explosives as a charge for the mini-boosters was erected. The plant was successfully tested for operation in December 2022 and officially commissioned in mid-January. Mini boosters are required to initiate bulk emulsion applied with underground units safely.
Austin Technology GmbH (ATG) has developed a prototype Mobile Manufacturing Unit (MMU) that offers several advantages over the units currently being used in the United States, including a specialized control system and the ability to report data automatically.
“As we continue to build out our next-generation software platform, one of the key components of that solution is the automation of the data collection process. This new MMU design will deliver on that very fundamental goal and allow our software systems to interface reliably in closer to real-time to collect and share the data with those who need it most, our Blasting Services Teams!”
– Scott Pietrzak, Global Field Technology Manager
In 2023, Austin Powder continued building our Innovation ecosystem by completing the acquisition of Paradigm Software, an industry-leading blasting software that has enhanced Austin Powder’s world-class technical service offerings worldwide.
“The Paradigm Team and Austin Powder’s Global Technical Team, collaboratively, with common goals in mind, have developed a blasting software solutions package where numerous models can be used concurrently to predict and analyze blasting outcomes. This includes models simulating common key performance indicators such as flyrock, vibration, drilling accuracy, and fragmentation.”
– Alan Romphf, Global Blast Engineering Manager
“We are all very excited and looking forward to further developing Paradigm and integrating it into our Global Reporting suite, ‘ABI (Austin Blasting Intelligence)’. We are also working to incorporate other tools and technologies, including third-party solutions, to provide our Blasters and Technical Representatives with seamless integration of data such as MMU data, seismographs, hole deviation measurements, and others.”
– Mario Alcedo, Global Director of Field Operations
“The Paradigm Software solutions will position Austin Powder as one of the most innovative companies in blasting software predictive modeling.”
– David Fernandez, Global Director Strategy, Sustainability & Innovation
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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