Apart from world-class bulk and packaged explosives products as well as basic to hightech tailor-made service packages, TMS is all about innovation – using technology to ensure that every blast brings value to our customers.

T h e depl o y m en t o f B ME’s i n - h o u s e development of AXXIS™ range of electronic detonators has opened new market opportunities for the company and is building TMS’ reputation as a regional innovation market leader.

Building on this success through BME’s partnership, TMS has evolved AXXIS™ even further into a centralised blasting system (CBS). Adapted for underground applications to enable underground panels to be detonated simultaneously from a remote point, the enhanced AXXIS™ CBS allows for the realtime communication of operational data to the surface.

Our new range of emulsion delivery equipment is bringing the benefits of emulsion to underground operations. We are able to deliver our highly stable and repumpable emulsion formulations into narrow orebodies, lateral, and uphole environments, using a variety of fit- forpurpose equipment and formulations.

At TMS, we strive toward constant research and development to continuously improve and develop our products. Our innovation hub consists of various industry specialists in blasting science, chemical, mechanical, electrical, and software engineering, geosciences, and mathematics.

Through BME’s modular automation plants and remote emulsion manufacturing facilities, we offer our clients security and continuity of supply.

We are able to rapidly commission remote emulsion plants and related infrastructure on site, anywhere in the SADC region.

BME INNOVATIONS

USED OIL

Pioneering the application of used oil as an ingredient in their emulsion products. BME has incorporated used oil in our emulsions for over

40 years, ensuring cost efficiencies in the product and that harmful waste can be reused and disposed of in a responsible way.

R E C O R D B R E A K I N G E L E C T R O N I C DETONATOR BLASTS

BME’s AXXIS™ electronic detonators continue to exceed customer expectations. The benefits of large blasts can be achieved using the AXXIS™ system and we continue to break records in the number of detonators fired in a single blast. A recent achievement for the system was the firing of a 6,690-detonator blast.

DELIVERING EMULSION TO NEW DEPTHS

Expanding our underground range of pump technology to deliver emulsion to even the toughest narrow orebody environments. BME has installed a vertical emulsion pipeline of 318 meters to deliver emulsion from surface to underground in RSA. This is the first time that emulsions have been pumped to this depth, and proves to be a revolutionary concept for underground mining efficiency.

We continue to work on projects everywhere else in the region, that will see emulsion being delivered through vertical pipelines to greater depths.

D I G I T A L C O M M U N I C A T I O N TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE BLASTING ENVIRONMENT

The real-time transfer of data and images between the workplace and management level facilitates quicker and better decision making on underground and surface operations through realtime visibility.

Using modern technology such as Tablets and Smartphones, data captured from mine blasts can be stored in a central location and analysed holistically to ensure higher efficiencies and productivity in operations.