Austin Powder is dedicated to innovation and sustainability, offering products designed to minimize environmental impact while maintaining exceptional performance.
Austin Powder’s product portfolio also includes innovations with the “ECO” attribute, which focus on reducing the environmental impact of the mining industry. By modifying the composition and materials used in production, these products are designed to minimize adverse effects, especially in lead compound disposal. The company’s Research and Development department plays a key role in driving these sustainable innovations, strongly emphasizing ECO and E*STAR technologies. Through these projects, Austin Powder is making strides in its commitment to sustainability and actively contributes to occupational safety and environmental protection.
Austin Powder is leading the industry with lead-free detonators, staying ahead of regulations. Over 65% of delay charges are now lead-free, and all fuseheads for electric and electronic detonators are 100% lead-free. Despite challenges, the R&D teams at Austin Detonator and Austin Star Detonator successfully met this goal, supporting the company’s mission of safe and responsible explosives use.
Dr. Martin Held and Abraham Lindo have been working to quantify NOx emissions from blasting using drones to optimize techniques and reduce environmental impact. While color-based detection exists, quantification methods are limited. In partnership with RIT’s DIRS Lab, Austin Powder has advanced tools to model NOx clouds. In 2024, the team applied deep learning through NOx Segmentation and Inverse Tracking to trace plumes back to their origin, along with Optical Flow Motion Analysis to pinpoint the source as the smoke settles.
In 2023, Austin Powder has incorporated high shear valves to increase emulsion viscosity of the Bulk emulsion minimizing the Nitrate migration to the water and to improve the quality of the gassed product for better blasting performance and help to minimize migration of nitrates into soil and surface water.
This method involves measuring the distances from the NOx plume origin point to all drill holes on the bench. By calculating these distances, the team can identify the nearest drill hole as the most likely source of NOx emissions.
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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