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MAXAM presents RIOBLAST, its design and blasting prediction software
2015.10.20
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During the 4th National Aggregates Conference held last week in Madrid
- As well as being the leader in the Spanish and European market, MAXAM is the third global company in the area of blasting products and services for mining, quarries and construction.
- MAXAM has a history and experience stretching back more than 140 years since it was founded by Alfred Nobel in 1872.
- In the sphere of technical works, MAXAM provides a wide range of services among which it is worth highlighting RIOBLAST, the software that allows a complete prediction of blasting outcomes.
- Another of the solutions at most demand from users of civil explosives are the ongoing improvement programmes, bringing about considerable savings in the entire aggregates extraction process.
- During the conference MAXAM launched its “Shoulder to shoulder, wherever you are” campaign, which symbolises the close relationship it has with its clients, attained thanks to its commercial and distribution network across the whole of Spain.
The more than 750 guests who attended the 4th National Aggregates Conference held in Madrid last week were able to know the entire range of MAXAM blasting products and services first hand.
Standing out among the range of technical services presented by MAXAM were:
- Studies aimed at improvements to productivity, safety and profitability.
- Control studies and measures whose goal is to minimise potential impacts on, and harm to, the environment.
- Charge blasting services
“With its more than 140 years of history, MAXAM is the indisputable sector leader thanks to the knowledge we have of the needs of our clients and the intimate, speedy and solution-providing service we offer them. Our ultimate goal is for our contribution to work towards the efficiency and productivity of your business. This is the message expressed by our “Shoulder to shoulder, wherever you are” campaign”, stated António Milagre, Managing Director of MAXAM Civil Explosives for Spain and Portugal.
“The keys to MAXAM's leadership lie in the high technological level of our products and services, our complete logistical network, with distribution centres across the whole country, and our care for the environment in all the life-cycle stages of our products”, concluded Milagre.
MAXAM Spain
With headquarters in Madrid and productive facilities in Galdácano (Biscay), Páramo de Masa (Burgos) and distribution centres across the whole country, MAXAM provides services (technical assistance) and products (civil explosives and priming systems) to mining companies, quarries and construction companies across the whole country.
MAXAM – www.maxam.net
MAXAM is an industrial and services group that operates globally, developing, manufacturing, and marketing blasting services and products and initiation systems for mining, quarries, and infrastructure; cartridges and powder for sport hunting; and products and services for the defence industry. It also provides the key raw materials for nitro-chemical activities, such as energetic nitrocellulose and ammonium nitrates, for internal use by MAXAM, as well as for sale to third parties. Lastly, MAXAM provides its clients with a series of solutions in the area of safety and the environment that have been generated as a result of the group's technological development in these areas.
MAXAM, founded by Alfred Nobel in 1872, finished 2014 with sales of 1.1 billion euros. It operates in the principal mining areas around the world, with manufacturing facilities in more than 45 countries and sales in more than 100 countries on five continents, with more than 6,500 employees.
For more information:
Lucas Ferreira
MAXAM
Communication Director
+34 91 722 01 00
lferreira@maxam.net
Raúl Díaz
MAXAM Civil Explosives
Marketing Director
+34 91 722 01 00
rdiaz@maxam.net
