Dyno Nobel Inc.

Dyno Nobel Acquired by Incitec Pivot Still Delivering Groundbreaking Performance

Explosives customers will benefit from the acquisition of Dyno Nobel by Incitec Pivot Limited (IPL). Being part of Incitec Pivot will offer our customers the opportunity to be affiliated with a larger organization offering a broader base and increased security of supply. For Dyno Nobel, the integration will strengthen our ability to provide an enhanced level of service as well as products designed to meet our customers' needs.

Nitrogen-based chemical manufacturing forms the basis of explosives and fertilizers and bringing the two companies together makes good strategic sense. The expanded IPL will be exposed to both the explosives industry during the sustained mining boom and the fertilizer industry's outlook for continued growth driven by global demand for increased food, feed, fiber and fuel.

Dyno Nobel, with global headquarters in Salt Lake City, operates as a discrete explosives business within IPL following the 2 June 2008 acquisition. The Dyno Nobel brand will be retained along with all products and associated trade names and Dyno Nobel remains focused on our customers and operating safely with a goal of "Zero Harm. Everyone. Every day." The same outstanding team of Dyno Nobel people will continue to work closely with our customers to deliver the same high quality products and services they've come to expect from us over the years.

Dyno Nobel employs more than 3,000 people and has 34 manufacturing facilities in Australia, Canada, the U.S., Indonesia, Mexico, South America, and Papua New Guinea. Dyno Nobel is renowned for its excellent safety performance, with standards among the highest in the industry, and as a provider of innovative explosive products and services, which together deliver groundbreaking performance for its customers.

DynoConsult, a division of Dyno Nobel, has one goal: to improve our customers’ overall profitability through groundbreaking solutions. By developing technical solutions to ensure our customers’ operations are performing optimally at all levels, DynoConsult can generate sustainable downstream processing efficiencies, cost savings and productivity gains. Our experienced consultants adopt a holistic approach to each project. With an emphasis on results - not just recommendations - the DynoConsult team will work in close partnership with our customer from the initiation stage through to implementation and results monitoring

dnx: Open for Business! dnx is the new name under which Dyno Nobel Limited, a leading full service commercial explosives company, will supply quality explosives products and blasting services to its international markets outside of Australia, New Zealand and North America. In support of Dyno Nobel's position as a customer focused, international solutions provider, dnx offers the same great Dyno Nobel quality explosives products and blasting services under this new and exciting international brand. dnx leverages world class products and services to provide customer focused solutions achieved with practical, innovative people delivering practical, innovative solutions. We look forward to your call!

Bulk Explosives

Where larger quantities of explosives are required, bulk loading saves time, saves labor and improves explosives performance. Dyno Nobel North America pioneered most of the bulk loading technology that is in use around the globe today and continues to lead the indusutry in bulk explosives technology.

Bulk Delivery Systems

Dyno Nobel pioneered the bulk delivery systems that are in use today around the world. Innovative bulk delivery equipment (including Dyno Nobel's patented DynoMiner™ underground designs) has been designed to safely and efficiently load the full line of Dyno Nobel bulk products including ANFO, ANFO/emulsion blends, straight emulsions and gassed emulsion. Dyno Nobel's loading equipment is optimized for each customers' operation and geology.

Cast Boosters

Dyno Nobel's composition boosters optimize borehole initiation of all common booster sensitive explosives. They are a product of our automated, state-of-the-art manufacturing process at the world's newest booster plant. The result is an economical booster with consistent quality and high performance from a reliable U.S. manufacturer.

Detonating Cords

PRIMACORD detonating cords are flexible linear explosives with a core of PETN explosive encased in a textile outer jacket, and are designed for use in various mining, quarrying and construction applications.

Dynamite

Generations of blasters have proven the unsurpassed reliability of dynamite for tough conditions and difficult situations where packaged emulsions may fail if not carefully loaded.

Initiation Systems

Safe and effective blasting can only be achieved with world-class initiation systems. Dyno Nobel's line of initiation products feature the best technology available in both traditional and cutting-edge initiation systems. They are designed and manufactured with safety, reliability and ease-of-use in mind, so that when properly deployed, you can expect cost-effective blast results every time.

Nitrogen Products

The acquisition of three additional ammonium nitrate manufacturing facilities in 2003 has increased Dyno Nobel's manufacturing capacity to nearly one million tons of ammonium nitrate (AN) prill and ammonium nitrate solution (ANSOL). Facilities are located in Louisiana, Missouri (LOMO); Donora, Pennsylvania; Cheyenne, Wyoming; Battle Mountain, Nevada; and St. Helens, Oregon. In addition, Dyno Nobel also produces a variety of acid blends and urea-based products.

Packaged Explosives

Packaged explosives include traditional dynamite, packaged ANFO, emulsion and watergel explosives. Dyno Nobel North America offers a wide variety of 1.1 (detonator sensitive) and 1.5 (booster sensitive) packaged explosives to fit every blasting requirement and geologic need.

Presplit Explosives

Generations of blasters have proven the unsurpassed reliability of dynamite. Dynosplit will shoot an air gap of up to 20" which makes it the most effective explosive on the market for surface presplitting and underground smooth wall blasting. Dynosplit presplits with uniform energy distribution throughout the column and low detonation pressure to minimize overbreak.