BME provides sustainable solutions and ongoing support that create value across the blasting cycle - for our partners, their workforce and the broader mining community.
BME discusses their latest technology for mining with Global Business Reports
“Our software development program focuses quite heavily on process optimization through digitization, which has been accelerated by the onset of the pandemic.”
Enabling safer blasting in reactive ground
Sulphide-bearing ground presents numerous risks to users of ammonium nitrate (AN) based explosives, so blasting leader BME – part of the JSE-listed Omnia Group – has developed both the products and systems to manage safer blasting under these conditions.
BLAST ALLIANCE is next step in BME digital journey
Blasting technology is moving mining towards a more sustainable future, a trend given now more impetus by the recent launch of blast leader BME’s ‘BLAST ALLIANCE’ brand.
BME blasts its way to SA record
The blast was conducted by BME, an Omnia Group company, at the end of 2020 at a manganese mine in South Africa’s Northern Cape province. Using its well-proven AXXIS electronic initiation system, BME was able to plan and execute a blast of 4,647 detonators. Just a few months earlier, the company had broken a previous record at the same mine by initiating 3,780 detonators in a single blast.
Mines push on as SA plays catch-up
The South African mining sector is managing the Covid-19 pandemic remarkably well, but the country needs to do more if it wants mining to benefit from the looming demand peak in ‘green minerals’, according to Ralf Hennecke, General Manager: Technology and Marketing at Omnia Group company BME.
BME targets drill-and-blast partners in USA
With a successful joint venture in Canada, BME is now also established in the United States – offering its sought-after explosives product range including electronic and non-electronic initiation
systems and packaged explosive products.
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