Enaex

Company Headquarters: Chile

Founded: 1920

Workforce: ~3,500

Company Working:

Enaex designs, develops, and sells explosives and blasting services. It operates through five business segments, namely, raw materials, blasting agents, high explosives, initiation systems, and blasting accessories. The blasting agent’s business segment includes its pirex, daveytronic, Energex, prillex, panfex, and vertex brands. The initiation systems business segment offers non-electric detonators, electric detonators, electronic detonators, and detonating cords. The company manufactures high explosives including various types of dynamite, boosters, cartridge emulsions, and detonators— at its Río Loa plant in Calama. It offers a wide variety of services such as shot blasting, loading blasting agents, shallow mooring, plugging blast holes, checking blasting holes, and magazine management. The company provides rock fragmentation and blasting services in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Peru, where it also has a broad network of on-site service plants. It has eight production plants across Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and France. Davey Bickford SAS, Xion I Participações S.A., Sigdo Koppers, and Industrias Cachimayo S.A. are some of the subsidiaries of the company.

Enaex has continued to grow internationally, expanding its capacity to develop and export innovative, cutting-edge products and services for the global mining industry. It has been concentrating on developing the markets of South America while strengthening its presence in the region. The company focuses on expansion by constructing manufacturing facilities and acquiring businesses in emerging countries, such as China and Russia.