Austin Powder manufactures a variety of packaged emulsion products and blends including Emulex and Hydromite. Emulsions are water-resistant and are a great option when loading wet boreholes. Austin’s cap sensitive emulsion explosives are packaged...
At this customer site, which produces 2MM tons per year, Austin’s technical team was charged with marrying two sides of the pit and creating a new bench on the floor. The bench height was 40ft, and the team had to get a new ramp and a new 40ft ...
Austin Powder in the US recently created a new colored detonating cord in response to a request from a single customer. Our traditional green A Cord was difficult to see once the heading was tied in, so the customer was looking for a brighter cord th...
Most of the time, the muckpile contained boulders that required intense secondary breaking by a hydraulic hammer. Subsequently, the blasts created uneven faces that influenced safety on the bench, making it harder for blast planning to keep the patte...
Austin Powder manufactures electric, non-electric and electronic detonators for a wide variety of applications. Austin Powder also engineers and builds its electronic initiation system equipment, including loggers, detonators, connectors, and more....
Blasts at this small quarry in Poland were generating vibrations with frequencies mostly between 10 and 20 Hz. Such frequencies resulted in the increased transition of the ground vibrations to the structures and claims from the owners. The quarry was...
Since 2012, Austin Detonator s.r.o. has collected discharged accumulators and batteries. There are four collection points where employees can drop off batteries, bottle caps, and small electronics. In 2021 alone, a total of 106 kg of discharged batte...
Jessica Thrasher, the Lead Blaster for the Nystar TN location, is thrilled with the Red D Miner from Austin Powder. She says, “We have quite a bit of water, and sometimes you can’t physically see it, but it’s in the back of the hole...
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...
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...
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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