Chemical Services is a major supplier of chemicals, services and technology to the water treatment, mining chemical and industrial chemical markets.  The business is based in Australia and has operations in the United States and the United Kingdom.  Chemical Services is divided into three business units: Watercare, Industrial Chemicals and Mining Chemicals.

Watercare is based in Australia and has operations in the United States and the United Kingdom.  Watercare products are used by municipal customers for creating safe drinking water and treating sewerage and by industrial customers in water and process applications.  Industrial markets include pulp and paper, food and beverage, dairy, steel, power generation and petrochemical. 

Until recently, the Industrial Chemicals business comprised Adhesives & Resins and Specialty Chemicals.  In December 2006, Orica divested its Adhesives & Resins business in Australia and New Zealand and in Indonesia.

Orica Specialty Chemicals is one of the world’s largest producers of explosive emulsifiers and is also a niche manufacturer of specialty surfactants, personal care additives, paint additives, pulp and paper dyes and agricultural chemicals. 

Mining Chemicals is based in Australia and exports products to Asia, Africa and the Americas, as well as supplying the local Australian industry.  It is the world’s second largest producer of sodium cyanide and is extending into a range of related chemicals and services.

Head Office and contact information:

Level 10
1 Nicholson Street
Melbourne Victoria 3000
Australia
Tel: +61 3 9665 7111
Fax: +61 3 9665 7937

Manufacturing Plants:

ChlorAlkali

Botany (New South Wales, Australia)

Laverton (Victoria, Australia)

Yarwun (Queensland, Australia)

Sodium Cyanide

Yarwun (Queensland, Australia)

Aluminates

Heybridge (Tasmania, Australia)

Morwell (Victoria, Australia)

Wyong (New South Wales, Australia)