Orica (ASX: ORI) — Company Overview, News & Financial Data
Orica is a global provider of mining and infrastructure solutions, focusing on explosives and geotechnical monitoring services.
Orica
Orica is a provider of commercial explosives, digital blasting technologies, and specialty mining chemicals to the mining, quarrying, construction, and infrastructure sectors. Founded in 1874, the company manufactures and distributes commercial explosives, electronic and wireless initiating systems, bulk delivery systems, and packaged explosives. Its digital solutions encompass blast design, fragmentation tracking, orebody intelligence, and geotechnical monitoring tools. Orica also produces sodium cyanide and specialty mining chemicals for gold and silver extraction and mineral processing, delivering integrated operations and services to customers across more than 100 countries globally.
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Operations
Products and/or services of Orica
- Blasting Solutions: Supply of bulk commercial explosives, ammonium nitrate, and tailored blasting delivery systems for surface mining, underground mining, quarrying, and civil infrastructure projects across global mining markets.
- Initiating Systems: Manufacture and distribution of electronic detonators, non-electric initiating systems, wireless detonation technology, boosters, and packaged explosives used in precise rock breaking across surface and underground extraction sites worldwide.
- Digital Solutions: Provision of digital blast modeling, design software, and automated blast optimization tools to plan, execute, and evaluate blasting operations for improved mine-to-mill productivity and reduced environmental impact.
- Orebody Intelligence: Delivery of fragmentation analysis tools, geotechnical risk management software, and real-time geological measurement sensors that enhance spatial awareness and resource recovery across open-cast and underground operations globally.
- Sodium Cyanide: Manufacturing and distribution of liquid and solid sodium cyanide from dedicated production facilities, supplying gold and silver leaching operations with secure supply chains and technical management services worldwide.
- Specialty Reagents: Formulating and supplying specialized emulsifiers, flotation reagents, and chemical solutions designed for mineral processing, froth flotation, and chemical extraction across various base and precious metal mining operations.
Orica executive team
- Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Gulab Gandhi M.B.A.MD, CEO & Executive Director
- Mr. James Crough B.Com., FCPA, M.B.A.Chief Financial Officer
- Mr. Angus J. Melbourne B.E., B.Sc.President of Digital Solutions & CTO
- Ms. Leah BarlowPresident of SHES, Discrete Manufacturing & Supply
- Ms. Krista Stewart B.A., L.L.B.Group General Counsel & Company Secretary
- Ms. Delphine Monica Cassidy F.A.C.I.D., M.B.A.Chief Communications Officer
- Mr. James K. Bonnor (Econ, B.Com., Mark)President of Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Mr. German Morales Baeza M.B.A., M.Sc.President of Australia Pacific & Sustainability
- Mr. Rajkumar MathiraveduPresident of Asia
- Ms. Jennifer Haviland B.Com., CPAPresident of Corporate Services