Company
Orica Limited
Headquarters: East Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Founded: Australia
Employees: 13,000
CEO: Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Gulab Gandhi M.B.A.
Market Cap
A$8.73 Billion
AUD as of July 1, 2024
US$5.81 Billion
Orica Limited Categories
Australia Basic Materials Specialty ChemicalsAustralia Basic Materials Australia Specialty Chemicals
Company Description
Orica Limited is a world-leading commercial explosives and blasting systems company. Serving the surface metal and coal extraction, underground mining and construction, construction, quarrying, and oil and gas industries, Orica provides explosive, sodium cyanide for gold extraction, and ground support services for mining and tunneling.
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Detailed Description
Orica Limited manufactures and sells commercial explosives and blasting systems in Australia, the United States, and internationally. The company provides 4D bulk explosives systems, packaged explosives, initiating systems, boosters, and seismic systems; and data, reporting, analytics, blasting, contracted, and supplementary services. It also offers automation solutions, including Avatel, a machine equipped with underground development charging system; and secondary breakage and hang up blasting, a tele-remote blasting solution. In addition, the company provides mining chemical products, such as cyanide sparges, emulsifiers, and sodium cyanide, as well as PRO services; digitally enabled benchmarks and insights at various stages of the blasting process; nitrogen fertilizers, which include urea ammonium nitrate and ammonia; and environmental monitoring and consultancy services. Further, it offers chemical and mechanical earth control products, adhesives, and ground support equipment comprising steel bolts and plates, glass fiber reinforced polymer bolts, injectable chemicals and foams, mesh, resin capsules, cementitious grouts and coatings, pumps, soil anchoring systems, ballast bonding polymers, and accessories, as well as engineering services. Additionally, the company provides resources to explore the use of chemical energy in blasting, blasting fundamentals, and properties of explosives and blast design principles; and geotechnical deformation and convergence monitoring solutions. It serves surface coal, surface metal, iron ore, quarrying, underground mining and construction, construction, civil infrastructure, oil and gas, and agriculture markets. The company was founded in 1874 and is headquartered in East Melbourne, Australia.
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Stocks & Indices
Orica Limited has the following listings and related stock indices.
Stock: ASX: ORI wb_incandescent
Product & Services
Explosives, Sodium cyanide, Ground support
Key People
Malcolm Broomhead (Non- Executive Director & Chairman) Sanjeev Gandhi (Managing Director & CEO)
Financials
Revenue: AUD 5.1 billion (2016)