Austin Powder Company

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Founded in 1988, Austin Star Detonator has grown to be a major manufacturer of a full line of electric and non-electric (shock tube) detonators, sold exclusively throughout the Americas by Austin Powder and Austin International.

We are the second oldest manufacturing company in Ohio. Today, we manufacture a full line of industrial explosives and accessories, and provide blasting services to customers throughout North America and around the world (see " Austin International ").

Our technical services group assists our customers around the world, providing state-of-the-art analysis for a variety of blasting needs. We developed QED ®, a computer-based virtual blasting program used to forecast fragmentation, damage, muckpile shape and vibration levels. It also helps our customers save time and money by modeling different blasting situations.

The blasting materials of today are much safer than black powder. At Austin Powder, we believe we make the finest explosives in the world. But all the quality we put into our products doesn't mean a thing if they are not used safely. That is our number one company objective.

Part of the westward migration involved, literally, moving mountains. Austin Powder was founded in that same year to produce the black powder that would help break the rocks, mine the coal and build the canals. From the banks of the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, we grew as the country grew.

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