Competitiveness Factors

COMPETITIVENESS FACTORS AND ENAEX SOLUTIONS

THE FIRST EXPLOSIVES COMPANY IN CHILE TO MEASURE ITS CARBON FOOTPRINT BY PRODUCT UNIT, ENAEX’S CARBON EMISSIONS ARE UP TO 40% LOWER THAN OTHER INDUSTRY SUPPLIERS.

	ENERGY CONTROL Solutions that seek mine stability by controlling the energy used during material removal. These solutions aim to ensure sustainable operations with appropriate slope and wall controls.HIDREX^® AND PANFEX^®: Explosives specially designed to control slopes and blasts.

	ENERGY OPTIMIZATION Solutions that seek to maximize costs by replacing electric energy with chemical energy in the crushing and grinding processes. Optimized fragmenting processes generate considerable savings in the mining process.High Fragmentation ENERGEX^®: A high-energy, high-power explosive product that improves rock fragmentation. Mesh Optimization VERTEX^®: This blasting agent is characterized by its versatility, enabling cost reductions through mesh enlargement.

	REACTIVE ROCK Solutions that seek to mitigate significant operating risks in mines where rocks react spontaneously when the rocky massif reaches high temperatures.PIREX^®: This blasting agent is specially designed to retard the reaction of ammonium nitrate and the pyrite in the rock.

	PRODUCTIVITY AND LOGISTICS UBT TRUCK: Designed to manufacture and load emulsions in underground mines, this autonomously powered truck can operate for more than 12 hours. HIGH-PERFORMANCE TRUCK^®: Mobile manufacturing unit featuring greater unloading speed, which makes the blasting process more productive. SAFELOCK^®: A safety accessory that secures the detonator to the booster in order to prevent decoupling and making priming safer. PREBLAST^® SYSTEM: A method in underground mining for reconditioning rock with subsidence blocks. Accelerates production in the deepest mines with low-grade minerals.

	SUSTAINABILITY Solutions that seek to innovate in the social aspects of the blasting process in order to achieve sustainable development and community protection.PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE AND CARBON FOOTPRINT ANALYSIS: Seeks to quantify the environmental impact of products during each of the individual processes involved in manufacturing, distribution, use and final disposal. Four environmental impacts were quantified in 2017: Climate change (carbon footprint of products) and consumption of water, non-renewable raw materials and purchased energy. BLAST SITE WATCH^®: A system that measures and controls the vibrations from blasts located near communities.

	TRADEMARKS, PATENTS AND LICENSES The Company's assets include several trademarks. Given their track record and use, some of the brands, including Amongelatina®, Iniciador APD^®, Softrón® and Enaline®, have become market bellwethers. Milodón^®, High-Performance Truck^®, EVS^® and Safelock^® are some of the Company's other noteworthy trademarks. In terms of products, the following stood out in 2016 and 2017: Pirex^®, Hidrex^®, Energex^®, Vertex^®, Panfex^® and Duolex^® and now robotics development brands like RoboMiner^® and Mine-iTruck^®.The Company recently began registering trademarks like Enaex^® and Prillex^® for use in some of the countries where it plans to conduct business, including but not limited to: Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia and Japan. Furthermore, it owns the rights to emulsions manufacturing technology as well as QED Plus—Austin Powder Co.'s design, evaluation and blasting simulation software.

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