AutomotiveAug 11, 2026

MAXAM

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Year Founded & Workforce

1871-12-31

6,500 Employees

Industry

AutomotiveB2BB2C

Services

MAXAM Overview

Company Headquarters: Australia

Founded: 1872

Workforce: ~6,500

Company Working: MAXAM is a leading technology company that specializes in designing, developing, and manufacturing energy materials. Its product portfolio includes several advanced products ranging from seismic, electronic, and non-electric detonators to traditional goods, such as detonating cord and electric detonators. Additionally, the company manufactures a full line of initiation systems, which includes safety fuses, RIOCORD detonating cords, RIODET electric detonators, RIOTRONIC electronic detonators, and RIONEL non-electric detonators. It operates through four business segments– blasting solutions, cartridges and gunpowder, products and services for the defence industry, and raw materials for the nitro chemical industry. The blasting solutions business segment offers products for applications in mining, quarries, and infrastructure. The company has several distribution and storage centres across Australia, with over 50 subsidiaries and 80 industrial units and commercial operations in more than 100 countries.

Strategy

MAXAM aims at forming a technological platform of energetic materials that creates, captures, disseminates, favoring economies of scale throughout the organization. Through a dual innovation system integrating technology and business, it guarantees that the entire organization, at the corporate level and in the different markets and business units, moves in the same direction. It constantly identifies new improvements and technologies for increased operational efficiency, safety, and environmental care.

Company Snapshot

6,500

Employees

1871-12-31

Founded

Australia

Headquarters

Key Developments

Date	Approach	Development
August 2020	Technology Launch	MAXAM announced the official launch of its new integrated blasting service: X-Energy, to optimize the total cost of ownership in mining, quarrying, and infrastructures operations. X-Energy combines the most advanced explosives technology in the market (Smart Rioflex) and a set of digital tools for optimized blast design and execution, integrated in MAXAM Blast Center.
December 2019	Collaboration	MAXAM collaborated with Minera Lomas Bayas, operated by Glencore in Chile, as a blasting solutions provider, in which MAXAM supply RIOFLEX, its high-energy bulk explosives, among other solutions. With this contract, MAXAM continues to expand its operations and global presence.
October 2019	Joint Venture	MAXAM started its commercial activity in China by inaugurating a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Pingyi, Shandong Province. The new facility is a joint venture project between MAXAM and Shandong Tianbao and Weihai Yuboqiang, with an investment of USD 81.93 million by MAXAM. Through a joint venture partnership, MAXAM brings its industry-leading technologies and solutions to China, such as higher-quality explosives and other solutions.
October 2019	Innovation	MAXAM complemented the high performance of dynamite, RIODIN, along with the development of cartridge explosives products. MAXAM has developed RIOTECH, which has become a new generation of cartridge explosives and is available in Spain.

Product Offering

MAXAM
- Initiating systems
- Mining Explosives Market

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Senior Retail Manager, LG Chem

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Management Consultant, Level 21

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Group Product Manager HVAC & Fire Protection GMA, Rockwool

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R&D Director, Seojin

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MAXAM

Company Headquarters: Australia Founded: 1872 Workforce: ~6,500 Company Working: MAXAM is a leading technology company that specializes in designing, developing, and manufacturing energy materials. Its product portfolio includes several advanced products ranging from seismic, electronic, and non-electric detonators to traditional goods, such as detonating cord and electric detonators. Additionally, the company manufactures a full line of initiation systems, which includes safety fuses, RIOCORD detonating cords, RIODET electric detonators, RIOTRONIC electronic detonators, and RIONEL non-electric detonators. It operates through four business segments– blasting solutions, cartridges and gunpowder, products and services for the defence industry, and raw materials for the nitro chemical industry. The blasting solutions business segment offers products for applications in mining, quarries, and infrastructure. The company has several distribution and storage centres across Australia, with over 50 subsidiaries and 80 industrial units and commercial operations in more than 100 countries.

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