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Orica is one of the world's leading providers of mining and infrastructure solutions, supplying commercial explosives, blasting systems and related products to the mining, quarrying, oil and gas, and construction industries. Founded in 1874 and headquartered in East Melbourne, Victoria, the company has been in operation for more than 150 years and is publicly listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX: ORI).

The business operates in more than 100 countries and employs over 14,000 people. Its workforce spans engineers, scientists and technologists alongside on-site crews working across mining and infrastructure projects globally. Areas of technical focus include commercial explosives, blasting systems, wireless blasting technology, ground support engineering, digital and automated mining technologies, and chemical manufacturing.

Products include commercial explosives for mining, quarrying, oil and gas and construction applications; blasting systems for mining and infrastructure; ground support products for mining and infrastructure development; and sodium cyanide, used primarily in gold extraction. WebGen™ is a wireless in-hole initiating system that Orica describes as pioneering digital and automated innovation in mining blasting.

Orica states its purpose as sustainably mobilising the earth's resources, with an emphasis on sustainability in resource mobilisation and an innovation-driven approach that reimagines traditional methods of resource extraction and infrastructure development.