Austin Powder

Construction

Jun 5, 2013

Helping to build the world

Construction products from Austin blasting.

Blasting is the source of a variety of both large and small construction products. It is also vital to site work for homes, roads, malls, tunneling, shaft sinking and canal widening. Austin Powder provides a full array of blasting services for customers who choose to outsource. As in all other projects, we hold safety, quality and adherence to regulatory compliance in high regard.

 

Austin puts you in good hands

Our state-of-the-art Blast Assessment and Instrumentation mean you'll get the desired results -- safely, efficiently and effectively.

 

Pre-Blast

Product characteristics. Blast geometry. Geology.

• Laboratory/Field Tests
• General surveying
• ABS (Austin Blasting Software)
• Computer-aided blast design allows computer simulations and blast design review during the planning stages
• Laser Profiler (2D, 3D)
• Provides data to help control blasting safety and environmental efforts of blasting
• QED virtual mining software
• A state-of-the-art computerized "virtual mining method" software package helps provide solutions to any customer issues or problems
• Borehole trajectory/deviation
• Hole measurement
• Geologist's compass

 

Blast

Product performance. Timing. Rock movement. Vibration and airblast.

• Video cameras
• High speed cameras
• Data acquisition systems
• VOD (Velocity of Detonation) measurement, Timing
• Seismographs

 

Post Blast

Muckpile distribution. Digability. Fragmentation. Backbreak. Cost.

• Laser profiling
• Photographic fragmentation analysis

 

Our Products:

High Explosives

Initiating Systems

Blasting Agents