
Orica Limited manufactures, distributes, and sells commercial blasting systems, mining and tunnelling support systems, and various chemical products and services in Australia, Peru, the United States, and internationally. The company provides 4D bulk explosives systems, packaged explosives, initiating systems, boosters, and seismic explosive ranges; technical services and solutions; and supplementary services. It also offers automation solutions, including Avatel, a machine equipped with underground development charging system; and secondary breakage and hang up blasting, a tele-remote blasting solution. In addition, the company provides mining chemical products, such as cyanide sparges, emulsifiers, and sodium cyanide, as well as PRO services; digitally enabled benchmarks and insights at various stages of the blasting process; and nitrogen fertilizers, which includes urea ammonium nitrate and ammonia. Further, it offers resources to explore the use of chemical energy in blasting, blasting fundamentals, and properties of explosives and blasting principles; training courses; and geotechnical deformation and convergence monitoring solutions. The company serves surface coal, surface metal, iron ore, quarrying, underground mining and construction, construction, civil infrastructure, oil and gas, and agriculture markets. Orica Limited was founded in 1874 and is headquartered in East Melbourne, Australia.
Orica Limited trades as OCLDF on OTC. The company is classified in Basic Materials / Chemicals - Specialty and reports in USD.
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Latest available fiscal data shows $5.38B of revenue and $107.28M of net income.
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Orica Limited can be compared against peers such as Arkema S.A., Air Water Inc., Clariant AG, Croda International Plc, HEXPOL AB (publ), Dyno Nobel Limited.
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Current signals to investigate include market capitalization of $6.39B, beta of 0.68, and return on equity of +3.9%.
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Company website: https://www.orica.com
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