A four-year technology collaboration between the Swedish miner LKAB and Orica has yielded wireless explosives. The results, the WebGen wireless platform, has been commercially available since 2022, ...

Abrasive blasting is a technique that has been in existence since 1870 when the first abrasive blasting process was patented by Benjamin Chew Tilghman. Abrasive blasting is the operation of forcibly ...

Blasting solutions company Davey Bickford Enaex, with help from French research center CEA-Leti, has developed a wireless two-way communications system to remotely control electronic detonators in ...

To maintain efficiency and profitability in manufacturing operations, milling and turning machines must be equipped to perform under extreme pressures with accuracy and repeatability. During the ...

Do you have the most up-to-date information in drilling and blasting to tackle common problems such as drill fleet optimization, explosive selection, and mine-to-mill optimization? Blasting has ...

Any fool can pick up a hammer and bend a piece of metal, but it takes an artist to finesse a quarter-panel out of a flat 4x8 sheet of cold rolled steel. The same can be said for those in the business ...

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday launched the first blasting for construction related work at the 14.15 km Zojila tunnel, one of the longest in Asia, that will provide all-year connectivity ...

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