Construction work can get complicated. Very complicated. And set limits must be met. E*STAR detonators with timing flexibility allow faster performance with controlled vibrations kept to acceptably low limits.  Watch this video to see how E*STAR Tun...

Norway has over 1,100 road tunnels that collectively span 800km (497 miles).  Of these tunnels, 73 are over 3,000 m (1.9 miles) long.  Norway is excavating approximately 8 million m3 (1.05 million yd3) of rock in new road, rail and water tunnels ev...

This $209 million Design-Build project is West Virginia Department of Highways’ largest to date.  It includes the design, grade, and drain for US 48 (Corridor H) and the US 219 Connector.  The work includes 12 million cubic yards (9.17 millio...

One of the largest E*STAR blasts of 2020 was performed in Antwerp Port in Belgium.  Demolition of an 8,000 m2 (86,111 ft2) concrete base plate utilized 6.87 tons of explosives and 2,210 detonators.  The location was flooded by 1.5m (5ft) of water a...

The Preg Dunite Quarry is known for its production of dunite, a very hard and abrasion-resistant rock, that is primarily used as an aggregate for asphalt and ballast for railroad lines.  Of course, blasting is the first step to fragment the rock for...

In Ontario, Canada the Austin team was able to break a year’s worth of rock for our customer in a single blast! The team fired 1,416 E*STAR detonators and over 86,000 kg (189,597 lbs) of Hydromite with two blasting machines to produce 259,405 t...

At the Temium iron ore mine in Mexico, Austin Powder provides pattern design and blasting services to mine the ore. The Austin crew combines teamwork and experience to help our customer achieve its goals while always maintaining a safe and healthy wo...

It all began in 1870, when Father Gallus Moser, a monastery chaplain, and Alfred Siersch, a pharmacist at the monastery, produced nitroglycerin on an experimental basis in an old charcoal burner’s hut in the Unteralpe area near St. Lambrecht. In or...

Austin Powder is taking explosive production to a new level with the modernization of its HMX plant in Rafaela. Austin can now produce a new “Class 5” granulometry product (micronized) which is necessary for shock tube manufacturing. Class 5 HMX ...

Austin Powder’s longtime customer, West Plains Mining, was cut-off from several large stone markets simply by distance. With several million tons of reserves on hold, and a desire to expand in the future, West Plains needed assistance with implemen...