Orica
Sign in to saveOrica 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)
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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
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.
Orica has a workforce of around 15,000 employees and contractors, servicing customers across more than 100 countries. Orica is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. It has in recent years been subject to a number of high-profile industrial accidents and fatalities.