EXPLOSIVES & BLASTING countries in the Southern African Development Community , West Africa and Indonesia .
To meet the company ’ s stringent quality requirements , used oil is sampled at BME bulking points around South Africa , then collected and transported to its treatment plant near Delmas . Undesirable contaminants are removed before the oil is ready to be used as a fuel source in BME ’ s range of emulsions .
In South Africa , BME is now the leading consumer of used oil in the explosives sector , using a considerable portion of South Africa ’ s total available volume in its emulsion explosives , according to Keenan .
“ Last year , we consumed about 15 million litres of used oil in the manufacture of our emulsion explosives , up from around 11 million four years ago ,” he said .
In other developments , the company is planning to launch its AXXIS TITANIUM™ system , the latest generation of BME ’ s AXXIS electronic blast initiation platform , soon , while Phase 2 of BLASTMAP Underground – to include up-hole design capacity – is also in the works .
The company is also confronting the ammonium nitrate problem in blast-affected groundwater .
“ From a sustainability and social licence point of view , we are looking at leveraging the benefits of calcium nitrate as a buffer against the potential hazards of post-blast ammonia release ,” Keenan said .
Bulk benefits
Spain-based MAXAM is another company intent on adjusting the explosive density of products to match the application at hand .
The benefits of its high energetic , robust and flexible density bulk product , RIOFLEX , have recently been proven in a study supported by independent external consultants and customer feedback .
RIOFLEX is part of the MAXAM X-Energy solution , a combination of rock characterisation
More than 14 historical studies and 30 specific trial blasts in a broad range of mining and quarrying applications across five continents were factored into the MAXAM RIOFLEX study
and “ unique and revolutionary ” product applications to deliver the right energy for blasting , managed by advanced digital technologies , the company explained .
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