SA firm takes first steps into US market with new blasting technology

With growth for the Axxis blasting technology having increased substantially each year over the past five years, Africa-based blasting and explosives leader BME has, in enhancing the brand’s growth, taken its first steps into the US market. The company conducted six successful test blasts in Atlanta, in the US, in collaboration with experienced blasting firm Controlled Blasting Incorporated (CBI) which employed BME’s Axxis digital initiation system, our BlastMap III software and our locally manufactured electronic detonators, explains BME global product manager for Axxis Tinus Brits, who spoke at the BME Annual Drilling and Blasting Conference, in Pretoria, last month.