- CEO
- Sanjeev Kumar Gulab Gandhi
- Full Time Employees
- 14,000
- Sector
- Basic Materials
- Industry
- Chemicals - Specialty
- Address
- 1 Nicholson Street East Melbourne VIC Australia 3002
- IPO Date
- Oct 15, 2010
- Business
- Orica Limited, headquartered in East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and founded in 1874, provides commercial explosives, blasting systems, sodium cyanide for gold extraction, mining chemicals, and geotechnical monitoring solutions to mining, quarrying, oil and gas, construction, and tunneling markets worldwide across more than 100 countries. The company operates through three primary segments: Blasting Solutions, which offers bulk explosives, packaged explosives, initiating systems, boosters, contracted blasting services, seismic systems, data analytics, and supplementary services; Specialty Mining Chemicals, encompassing sodium cyanide, emulsifiers, PRO services, analysers, sparge systems, and nitrogen fertilizers such as urea ammonium nitrate and ammonia; and Digital Solutions, including automation tools like Avatel underground charging systems, tele-remote blasting, slope stability monitoring, and orebody intelligence platforms. Orica serves surface metal, surface coal, underground mining, underground construction, quarrying, and oil and gas sectors with a workforce of approximately 15,000 employees and contractors.
In recent developments, Orica completed the acquisitions of Terra Insights in 2023 for $377 million to enhance its digital monitoring capabilities through integration with GroundProbe, and Cyanco in 2023 to bolster sodium cyanide production; these integrations progressed well into 2025 with contributions to segment performance. The company raised US$390 million via an oversubscribed US private placement in July 2025 to repay maturing notes and strengthen its balance sheet, while receiving conditional A$432 million Australian government funding in July 2025 for the Hunter Valley Hydrogen Hub to advance low-carbon ammonia production. Orica reported record FY2025 EBIT of $992 million, up 23% year-on-year, launched a $500 million share buyback program with $399 million executed by September 2025, and achieved an 80% reduction in nitrous oxide emissions at its Kooragang facility amid expansions into Central Asia and West Africa.