MAXAM Overview
Company Headquarters: Australia
Founded: 1872
Workforce: ~6,500
Company Working: MAXAM is a leading technology company that specializes in designing, developing, and manufacturing energy materials. Its product portfolio includes several advanced products ranging from seismic, electronic, and non-electric detonators to traditional goods, such as detonating cord and electric detonators. Additionally, the company manufactures a full line of initiation systems, which includes safety fuses, RIOCORD detonating cords, RIODET electric detonators, RIOTRONIC electronic detonators, and RIONEL non-electric detonators. It operates through four business segments– blasting solutions, cartridges and gunpowder, products and services for the defence industry, and raw materials for the nitro chemical industry. The blasting solutions business segment offers products for applications in mining, quarries, and infrastructure. The company has several distribution and storage centres across Australia, with over 50 subsidiaries and 80 industrial units and commercial operations in more than 100 countries.
Strategy
MAXAM aims at forming a technological platform of energetic materials that creates, captures, disseminates, favoring economies of scale throughout the organization. Through a dual innovation system integrating technology and business, it guarantees that the entire organization, at the corporate level and in the different markets and business units, moves in the same direction. It constantly identifies new improvements and technologies for increased operational efficiency, safety, and environmental care.
