Orica
Orica House, the company headquarters | |
| Formerly | ICI Australia |
|---|---|
| Company type | Public |
| ASX: ORI | |
| Industry | Metals, mining, oil and gas, construction, tunnelling |
| Founded | 1874 |
| Headquarters | Orica House East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
Key people | Malcolm Broomhead (Non-Executive Director & Chairman) Sanjeev Gandhi (Managing Director & CEO) |
| Products | Explosives, Sodium cyanide, Ground support |
| Revenue | AU$7.1 billion (2021/22) |
| AU$374 million (2021/22) | |
| AU$49 million (2021/22) | |
| Total assets | AU$8.4 billion (September 2022) |
| Total equity | AU$3.7 billion (September 2022) |
Number of employees | 15,000 (2021) |
| Website | www |
Orica Limited (ASX: ORI) is an Australian-based multinational corporation that is one of the world's largest providers of commercial explosives and blasting systems to the mining, quarrying, oil and gas, and construction markets, a supplier of sodium cyanide for gold extraction, and a specialist provider of ground support services in mining and tunnelling.
Orica has a workforce of around 15,000 employees and contractors, servicing customers across more than 100 countries. Orica is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. It has in recent years been subject to a number of high-profile industrial accidents and fatalities.