Orica Limited

Orica Limited is a locally-owned publicly listed company, deriving revenue from the manufacture and distribution of commercial explosives and blasting systems, mining and tunneling support systems, chemical production, and related technicalservices.The group employs over 11,500 people, operates in more than 50 countries, and is administered by its head office in Melbourne.

Orica Limited is listed on the ASX under the code ORI.

Orica Limited divides its global operations into four geographic regions: Australia Pacific & Asia, North America, Latin America and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). The company provides the following products and services:

• Blasting

Orica develops and manufactures commercial explosives and blasting systems and provides technical support and blasting solutions to the surface and underground mining, quarrying, civil construction and oil and gas markets. The company has manufacturing plants located throughout the world, either wholly owned or through joint ventures. The range of blasting systems includes: BlastIQ Platform, Wireless Initiating Systems, Electronic Blasting Systems, Bulk Systems and Packaged Explosives.

• Civil Solutions

Providing a range of specialized services to the Civil Construction, Civil Infrastructure and Underground Tunneling sectors including consulting, technical solutions, blasting systems, environmental monitoring, rock engineering and ground control. The division operates globally through three brands, Orica, Nitro Consult and Minova.

• Cyanide

Orica produces a range of chemicals for the mining industry including sodium cyanide for gold extraction, emulsifiers for underground blasting and water management and flotation reagents for processing complex ore.

• Minova

Specializes in the manufacture of stabilization chemicals and materials, specialty bolts and related equipment for the underground mining and civil tunneling sectors

• GroundProbe

Provides end-to-end hardware and software solutions to the underground and open-cut mining and civil industries.

• Agriculture

Engaged in the manufacture of fertilizer for use in farming under the Precision brand.

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