Drilling company makes impact
IMPACT Drill and Blast’s new bulk explosives manufacturing facility near Darwin will soon be ready for production.
The facility is capable of manufacturing a range of bulk emulsion products to suit a variety of applications such as reactive ground for surface and underground mining, and will provide mining companies in the region with a cost-effective option to use a high quality emulsion product that is made locally in the NT.
The location will also allow Impact Drill and Blast to deliver cost effectively into the northern areas of WA and the western areas of Queensland (Mt Isa and Cloncurry), and is strategically located to allow cost-effective deliveries to Adelaide and Melbourne via rail connection.
The facility can currently produce around 40,000t per annum of bulk emulsion, but has been designed and constructed to increase this capacity as required.
The Yahua Group
Impact’s parent company, the Yahua Group, operates 57 wholly-owned subsidiaries, 23 manufacturing bases engaged in civil explosive business in China, and have the annual capacity to produce 200,000t of explosives and 75m detonators.
Yahua also owns the Redbull Powder Company that has two bulk emulsion facilities in New Zealand.
Redbull and Impact will be working as one team to service the Australasian region, combining to build a strong force to deliver complete rock on-ground solutions to clients using the latest technologies, equipment and explosives products.
Impact Drill and Blast’s ability to produce its own explosive products further enhance the flexibility and capabilities to offer integrated rock on-ground services to fulfil the drilling and blasting needs of smaller quarrying businesses, right through to large multinational quarrying and mining companies.
By offering integrated drilling and blasting solutions, the company helps maximise the efficiency of mining, quarrying and construction projects around Australia and streamlines drill and blast operations to make the lives of project managers much easier.
The company also has one of the largest fleets of blast hole drills in Australia with an experienced team of shotfirers, drillers, maintenance personnel, project managers and blast engineers to handle the most complex of projects and to ensure that the job is always done safely, reliably and efficiently.
For more information about how Impact Drill and Blast can provide reliable, flexible and cost-effective solutions within the drilling and blasting industry, visit: www.impactdrillblast.com.