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BME (Bulk Mining Explosives) is a leading manufacturer and supplier of explosives, blasting accessories, initiation systems and blasting services to the mining, quarrying and construction industries across Africa, Australia and South America. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Bryanston, Johannesburg, BME is a wholly owned division of the JSE-listed Omnia Group — South Africa's foremost diversified chemicals conglomerate. BME operates through two core divisions: BME Blasting Solutions, specialising in commercial explosives and electronic initiation systems including the award-winning AXXIS™ digital detonator platform; and BME Metallurgy, providing mining chemicals and metallurgical processing solutions including reagents for leaching, flotation and solvent extraction. BME has operations across 23 countries on four continents and has become the first explosives company to introduce hydrogen peroxide-based emulsion (HPE) explosives at industrial scale — a breakthrough technology that eliminates post-blast NOx emissions. BME is a regular participant at Mining Indaba and serves most of Africa's major gold, platinum, copper, coal and iron ore mines.
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