The Company derives the majority of its revenue from the provision of differentiated products, services and solutions to the mining and infrastructure related industries. By utilising low-cost, multi-source and flexible supply chains Orica is able to meet the needs of customers and improve sustainability. Orica continues to invest in new and innovative solutions that will enhance value for customers by increasing productivity, improving environmental and social outcomes and reducing costs
In conjunction with Orica’s latest electronic initiating systems, a number of sophisticated
blasting techniques were implemented to improve the productivity of customers’ mining operations. Chemical energy is around 25 times more effective than mechanical energy for the breaking of rock. This puts Orica in a position to establish blasting solutions that enable greenhouse gas improvements via a reduction of energy consumed in the comminution (crushing and
grinding) of rock during mineral processing.
Installation of nitrous oxide abatement technology at some of the Company’s biggest manufacturing sites has reduced Orica’s annual greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of taking more than 250,000 vehicles off the road.
Orica has joined the Australian and New South Wales governments to support a world-first research pilot project. Mineral Carbonation Pty Ltd (MCi), a joint venture between Orica, the University of Newcastle and the GreenMag Group, will establish the pilot plant at the University. The technology transforms captured carbon dioxide emissions into solid carbonate for
safe disposal or use in “green” building materials. If the technology can be successfully commercialised, it has the potential to contribute to a meaningful reduction in both Orica’s and customers’ CO2 emissions.
Such innovation continues to make Orica the supplier of choice and will contribute to improving
the productivity and sustainability of Orica and of its customers in more than 100 countries around the world.