Orica
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Orica Limited () is an Australian-based multinational corporation that is one of the world's largest providers of commercial explosives and blasting systems to the mining, quarrying, oil and gas, and construction markets, a supplier of sodium cyanide for gold extraction, and a specialist provider of ground support services in mining and tunnelling.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Orica Limited
- Company.logo
- Orica logo.svg
- Company.former_name
- ICI Australia
- Company.image
- Orica House.jpg
- Company.image_caption
- Orica House, the company headquarters
- Company.type
- Public
- Company.foundation
- 1874
- Company.location
- Orica HouseEast Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Company.key_people
- Malcolm Broomhead (Non-Executive Director & Chairman)Sanjeev Gandhi (Managing Director & CEO)
- Company.industry
- Metals, mining, oil and gas, construction, tunnelling
- Company.products
- Explosives, Sodium cyanide, Ground support
- Company.revenue
- AU$7.1 billion (2021/22)
- Company.operating_income
- AU$374 million (2021/22)
- Company.net_income
- AU$49 million (2021/22)
- Company.assets
- AU$8.4 billion (September 2022)
- Company.equity
- AU$3.7 billion (September 2022)
- Company.num_employees
- 15,000 (2021)
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company, Funder
- Founded
- 1874
- Location
- East Melbourne, Australia
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.467506.6 · ISNI 0000 0004 0432 4328
Official website
Orica
As a global leader in mining and infrastructure solutions, Orica manufactures and distributes products and services that enable our customers’ operations in more than 100 countries. Central to our customers' success are our three business segments—Blasting Solutions, Digital Solutions and Specialty Mining Chemicals—which create a distinctive, fully integrated offering, that is unmatched in the global market.
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Encyclopedic overview
32 sectionsContents
- History
- Financial performance
- Sustainability
- Markets/industries
- Products and services
- Blasting
- Products and services
- Minova
- Sodium cyanide
- Headquarters
- Incidents
- Corporate
- Bullying scandal
- In Australia
- Botany, New South Wales
- Organochlorines in the Botany aquifer
- Mercury leak, 2011
- Mercury leak, 2012
- Gladstone, Queensland
- Cyanide leaks, 2012
- Kooragang, New South Wales
- Hexavalent chromium leak, 2011
- Hunter River arsenic leak, 2011
- Ammonia leak, 2011
- Ammonium nitrate leak, 2011
- Hydrogen stack fire, 2012
- Port Kembla, New South Wales
- Sulphuric acid leak, 2011
- In Mexico
- Coahuila
- Explosion, 2007
- References
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