Products and services Orica operates three primary business areas: Blasting Orica is one of the world's largest provider of commercial explosives and blasting systems to the mining, quarrying, oil and gas, and construction markets. Products and services Contracted services Initiators Boosters Bulk explosives Packaged explosives Data, reporting & analytics Supplementary services Seismic systems Minova Minova is a member of the Orica Group. Products and services include: Steel bolts and plates Glassfibre reinforced polymer bolts Injectable chemicals and foams Mesh Resin capsules Cementitious grouts & coatings Pumps Soil anchoring systems Ballast bonding polymers Accessories and engineering services Sodium cyanide Orica is a supplier of sodium cyanide for gold extraction. Products and services include: Analysers PRO service Data, reporting & analytics Sparge Training Orica House Once Australia's tallest building, the former ICI Building in East Melbourne, now Orica House, was Australia's tallest during the 1950s and was one of the first high-rise buildings in Australia's cities. It is one of the few post-war office buildings to be found on the Victorian Heritage Register. Incidents Corporate Bullying scandal In March 2015 then CEO Ian Smith was ousted from the business due to bullying of a female employee. During Smith's tenure as CEO, some of the senior leadership within the organisation left for other companies. Alberto Calderon replaced Ian Smith in 2015 until 2020. Orica’s earnings post Ian smith’s departure experienced a significant decline as well as incurred multiple extraordinary charges. During this time there was also significant turnover within the executive leadership team. In Australia Botany, New South Wales Organochlorines in the Botany aquifer Remediation began in 2005 after production of chlorinated solvents by ICI over many years resulted in significant contamination of the aquifer, a high-quality sand aquifer located below the eastern suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales. The main chemical contaminant found in groundwater around the old ICI site is EDC (1,2-dichloroethane), a persistent organic pollutant and byproduct of the manufacture of PVC. Orica has built an A$167 million Groundwater Treatment Plant (GTP) to achieve containment of this contamination and provide high quality industrial water to Botany Industrial Park. Water produced by Orica's GTP saves Sydney's potable water supply around per day (approx 0.5% of Sydney's water demand). Residents in the area were banned from accessing the groundwater. Orica estimated in 2012 that the GTP had been in operation for seven years of its 30-year design life cycle. Mercury leak, 2011