

Technology and innovation roadmap
Innovation Roadmap
Our path to solving our customer's biggest challenges with data-led insights and technology.
Your technology partner.
Your technology partner.
At Orica, we aim to be the technology partner of choice for our customers by creating, developing and delivering solutions that help our customers be more productive and manage their critical risks.
Orica’s Technology Roadmap drives innovation by aligning our people, data, processes and systems on increasing the complex challenges our customers face.
This ensures we remain focused on delivering smarter solutions to our customers.
Across every region and industry, we serve, our customers are facing a common set of escalating challenges.
- They are under pressure to maximise the return on increasingly complex and capital‑intensive assets, unlock access to deeper, lower‑quality and more remote ore bodies, and operate safely and responsibly in environments of growing social and regulatory scrutiny.
- At the same time, productivity expectations continue to rise as operations become more constrained and interconnected.
Orica’s Technology Roadmap is focused on solving these challenges through data‑led insights and integrated digital solutions to help our customers operate more efficiently, sustainably and confidently today, while building resilience for the future.
Customer Challenges
Customer Challenges
The ever-present push for productivity and efficiency improvements being magnified as customers face increasing pressure to maximise the return on their assets. These pressures include:
- Underground mines are pushing deeper required the movement of enornous amount of earth to extrract valuable resources.
- Reducing oregrades.
- Increasing labour costs.
- Increasing supply chain costs.
- Fuel shortages and rising energy prices.


Key innovation pillars
Data and artificial intelligence
Orica is using data and artificial intelligence to unlock deeper insights, improve decision‑making, and enhance performance across the value chain. By turning data into actionable intelligence, we help customers operate more safely, efficiently, and sustainably while continuously improving outcomes.
On bench automation
On‑bench automation focuses on automating key surface mining activities directly on the bench, reducing the need for people to work in high‑risk environments. By combining digital workflows, connected equipment and automation technologies, Orica is helping create safer, more predictable and more productive drill‑and‑blast operations. This initiative supports the journey toward end‑to‑end blast automation by improving consistency, data quality and operational control in surface mining.
Rock-to-ready solutions
Rock‑to‑Recovery solutions leverage Orica’s unmatched technical services capability to deliver value across the entire mining value chain. By combining data from Orica Digital Solutions and other sources with Orica’s products, technologies and deep domain expertise, tailored solution sets are created to address specific customer challenges. This integrated, end‑to‑end approach enables synergistic outcomes, optimising performance from blasting through to downstream recovery and helping customers unlock greater value from their operations.
Low-cost initiators and sensors
Low‑cost initiators and sensors expand access to advanced blasting and monitoring technologies. These solutions provide critical insights and control while remaining cost‑effective, helping customers improve safety, reliability, and performance at scale.
Technology Roadmap
Orica’s technology roadmap brings our strategy to life - showing how we turn customer challenges into focused, connected innovation. It highlights where we are investing, how our digital and technology capabilities are evolving, and how data‑led insights and integrated solutions come together to deliver real value. This roadmap reflects a clear path forward: aligning people, technology and partnerships to help our customers operate safer, smarter and more sustainably, today and into the future.
