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...
The Austin Powder Technical Services Team in Germany recently faced a blast with unique challenges including 4 nearby structures, ranging from 10 to 80 meters away. Due to precise planning and blasting with E*STAR detonators, the Austin team helped t...
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 about the detonator and one L...
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 make many of our products, including detonating cord, detonato...
Cleveland, Ohio. Austin Powder, a leader in the manufacture, distribution, and application of industrial explosives and engineered blasting solutions, announces the release of its new E*STAR Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. Radio Fre...
Austin Powder is a privately held company operating in 24 countries, with 26 manufacturing plants and over 4,500 employees....
METHODICAL BLAST PATTERN EXPANSION BREAKS PRODUCTION RECORDS AND REDUCES COSTS BY 17.8% A customer faced blasted inventory shortages that were driven by demand for a highstripping ratio. After analyzing historic fragmentation data, the Austin Technic...
In January, Austin Powder acquired the majority stake in Nitrosul, the Brazilian company that produces explosives and blasting services for the construction and mining industry. This is the first Austin Powder operation in Brazil. Nitrosul Explosives...
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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