Detonator Market

Company Headquarters: Czech Republic Founded: 1936 Workforce: ~1,100 Company Working: Austin Detonator designs, manufactures, and sells electric, non-electric, and electronic detonators for mining, quarries, construction, tunneling, and oil & gas industries. Its wide range of detonators has applications in surface, underground, construction, and the oil & gas industry. The company has 11 manufacturing facilities across Ohio, Texas, and Mexico. Austin Europe, Austin Powder GmbH, Austin Power Service, Austin International, Inc., Austin Powder Argentina S.A., and the US Nitrogen LLC are some of its subsidiaries. The company offers explosives products under Austin Powder GmbH. AUSTIN POWDER GmbH engages in the development, tests, and production of industrial explosives. The company has a capacity of producing about 14,000 tons of emulsion explosives annually with an hourly output of nearly 100kg.

Company Headquarters: South Africa Founded: 1864 Workforce: 3,500 Company Working: Sasol is an integrated chemical and energy company that operates through five business segments, namely, mining, exploration and production international, energy, base chemicals, and performance chemicals. It operates coal mines and develops and manages upstream interests in oil and gas exploration and production in Mozambique, South Africa, Australia, Canada, Gabon, and Australia. Additionally, the company produces and markets explosives, fertilizers, polymers, mining reagents, alcohols, ketones, acrylate monomers, and other oxygenated solvents for use in applications, such as aerosols, cosmetics, fragrances, packaging, paints, adhesives, pharmaceuticals, polishes, printing and plastics, mining, pulp and paper, steel, textiles, water treatment and purification, agricultural fertilizers, and chemicals. Sasol has 8 production facilities and a presence in 34 countries including Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the UK, the US, Canada, Mexico, China, India, Japan, and others. National Petroleum Refiners of SA Ltd., Sasol Chevron Holdings Limited, Sasol Synfuels (Pty) Ltd, Sasol New Energy Holdings (Pty) Ltd, Sasol Canada Exploration and Production Limited, and Sasol Mining Holdings (Pty) Ltd are some of its subsidiaries.

Company Headquarters: South Africa Founded: 1984 Workforce: ~4,800 Company Working: BME South Africa designs, manufacturers, and sells explosives and other related accessories and blasting services to the mining, quarrying, and construction industries. It offers its products through three business segments, namely, agriculture, mining, and chemicals. The mining business segment comprises bulk emulsion, blended bulk explosives, specialized chemicals and chemical-based solutions, and logistics services for the opencast mining industry. The chemical business segment includes specialty, bulk trading, and industrial chemicals and polymers, as well as it includes base oils, additives, and lubricant products. The company has offices located in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Swaziland, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, DRC, Sierra Leone, Mali, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Senegal and Eritrea. Bulk Mining Explosives (Pty) Ltd (BME South Africa) operates as a subsidiary of Omnia Holdings Limited.

Company Headquarters: Chile Founded: 1920 Workforce: ~3,500 Company Working: Enaex designs, develops, and sells explosives and blasting services. It operates through five business segments, namely, raw materials, blasting agents, high explosives, initiation systems, and blasting accessories. The blasting agent’s business segment includes its pirex, daveytronic, Energex, prillex, panfex, and vertex brands. The initiation systems business segment offers non-electric detonators, electric detonators, electronic detonators, and detonating cords. The company manufactures high explosives including various types of dynamite, boosters, cartridge emulsions, and detonators— at its Río Loa plant in Calama. It offers a wide variety of services such as shot blasting, loading blasting agents, shallow mooring, plugging blast holes, checking blasting holes, and magazine management. The company provides rock fragmentation and blasting services in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Peru, where it also has a broad network of on-site service plants. It has eight production plants across Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and France. Davey Bickford SAS, Xion I Participações S.A., Sigdo Koppers, and Industrias Cachimayo S.A. are some of the subsidiaries of the company.

Company Headquarters: China Founded: 2001 Workforce: N/A Company Working: Poly Permanente Union Holding Group Limited is China's largest civil explosive enterprise that is engaged in researching, producing, marketing, and engineering explosive materials. Its product line includes emulsion explosives, expanded explosives, ammonium nitrate fuel oil explosives, electric detonators, and conventional detonators. The company is an operating subsidiary of China Poly Group Corporation, a large scale central state-owned enterprise under the management of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC). Furthermore, the China Poly Group Corporation has a vast global presence with its business covering over 100 countries worldwide and over 100 domestic cities, including Guizhou, Shandong, Liaoning, Gansu, Xinjiang, Henan, Tibet, and Jiangxi. Additionally, the company heavily invests in its research and development activities to enhance its product portfolio, further.

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.