EXPAL Bulgaria JSC

Defense Activities in Gabrovo Plant

Formed by more than 100 companies

With over 6.000 employees worldwide

Organized in five business areas

Production facilities in more than 40 countries

And sales in more than 100, in every continent

Since its foundation by Alfred Nobel

in 1872, MAXAM has become a

multinational industrial group:

Part of a great Industrial Group

Industrial Group

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Industrial Group

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MAXAM is a leading industrial group in…

Development, manufacture and sale of civil explosives and initiation

systems for the mining, quarry and infrastructure industries

Production of chemicals and fertilizers

Hunting cartridges and gunpowder for sporting use

Products for the defence industry

Energy and environmental consulting

Industrial Group

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Initiation Systems

Civil Explosives

Energy

Chem

Defence

Outdoors

Electric detonators

Non-electric detonators

Electronic detonators

Detonating cord

Boosters

Safety fuse

Cartridged explosives

Bulk explosives

Seismic explosives

Delivery systems

Environment consulting

Wind Energy

Raw materials: Ammonium nitrate

Nitrocelulose Fine chemicals

Ammunitions and energetics, weapons systems, maintenance

and demil services

Cartridges

Components

Powder

Mining

Public sector

Infrastructures

Quarries

Internal resources

and abilities

Internal needs

Chemical sector

Defence Ministries

(NATO Area)

Defence Companies

Shooting clubs

Hunting

BUSINESS AREA MAIN PRODUCTS CLIENTS

#1 in Europe

# 2 worldwide

# 1 worldwide

# 1 in Demilitarization

Recycling in Europe

# 1 in Europe

LEADERSHIP

# 1 in Europe

EXPAL, head of the Business Unit of

Defence of the MAXAM Group,

constitutes the most important

industrial group in Spain within the

industry of ammunition and

explosives as well as the number 1 in

Demilitarization and Soil remediation.

With a wide and complete range of

products, EXPAL also provides

services of maintenance and

modernization of platforms, armoured

vehicles and aircraft systems.

Defence Activities

Leader in Defense

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Defence Activities

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EXPAL manages the entire lifecycle of ammunitions and explosives, from their

design, development, manufacturing, until their destruction at the end of their

working life, allocating all recycled components to their reuse in the civil

industry, explosives for public works, mining industry, hunting powder, etc.

EXPAL develops, manufactures, markets and maintains products, systems and

services for the Defense & Security Sector.

Its products are operating in Armed Forces from a large list of countries.

Weapon Systems

Ammunitions &

propellants

Technological

Systems &

Applications

Maintenance Services

& Integrated Logistic

Support

Demilitarization

& EOD Services

Defence Activities

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Weapon Systems, ammunition & energetic products

Weapon Systems, Artillery Ammunition, Air

Armament, Fuzes, Medium Caliber Ammunition,

Mortar Systems, Naval Ammunition, small caliber

ammunition, propellants & Energetics.

Defence Activities

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Systems and Technology Applications

Guiding Systems & Digital Control Systems

Defence Activities

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Maintenance & Modernization Services and Integrated Logistic Support

Armored Vehicles

Defence Activities

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Aeronautical Systems

Maintenance & Modernization Services and Integrated Logistic Support

Defence Activities

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EOD & Soil Remediation Services

Training, Demining, BAC (Battle Area Clearance) & ERW

(explosives remnants of war) and UXO´s (unexploded

ordnances)

Defence Activities

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With more than 600

Professionals, EXPAL has 7

centers in Spain and other 4

factories in Europe: 1 in

Denmark, 1 in Italy, 1 in

Belarus and 1 in Bulgaria.

We share knowledge

Defence Activities

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We share knowledge

Defence Activities

TEXAS

Load, assembly and pack.

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LOUISIANA

Energetics processing

With two centers in USA, EXPAL USA develop

and produce energetic components

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EXPAL Bulgaria as part of EXPAL has a

world-wide commercial network and solid

collaboration agreements with important

companies of the Defense Industry

With a Global Sales Network

Defence Activities

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More than 100 years history…

Gabrovo Plant

Started its activity in 1.895 with the

manufacturing of military powders

It has produced diverse defense products like

hand grenades, anti-tank mines, engineering

field explosives or small and medium calibers

Acquired in 2007 by MAXAM Group

Since 2007 investment is focused in

demilitarization activities

Today is one of the most modern, safe and

environmental friendly facilities in Europe for

demilitarization activities

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Wide experience

Gabrovo Plant

Authorization, facilities, equipment, manpower, knowledge and experience for

the disposal of conventional ammunition NATO and Warsaw

High explosive rounds, armour piercing, pre-fragmented, illuminating,

incendiary, cargo, smoke, WP, mortar ammo., hand grenades, rockets,

aviation, cluster, small calibers, blasting mines, engineering explosives,

pyrothecnics, detonating cord, blasting caps…

More than 500 references destroyed in last two years

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Good location and good access

Gabrovo Plant

Facilities for storage, demilitarization and recycling on one single site in

Gabrovo (center of Bulgaria) at 240 km east of Sofia and 260 km west of

Burgas port in the Black Sea

Located in crossroads between north-south main way from Romania to Turkey,

and west-east main road to Black Sea cost

Accessibility by truck, trailer, semi-trailer and containers of any size

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Big storage capacity

Gabrovo Plant

Reception of ammunition by sea is facilitated by the use of authorized

warehouses sited close to Burgas port in the Black Sea

Authorized decontainerization area inside factory with capacity for 230

containers 20 feet

21 storage warehouses for ammunition and civil explosives authorized for

2.220 tons NEQ with all safety requirements according to legislation

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Discharge plant for high-explosive

TNT ammunition

Environmental friendly, free of red

waters

Drying and flaking capabilities with

capacity up to 5 tons per working day

Gabrovo Plant

Explosive discharge

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Discharge plant for high-explosive composition-B,

hexotonal, tritonal and D-explosive with capacity up

to 3 tons

Gabrovo Plant

Explosive discharge

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White phosphorous discharge

Discharge plant for WP ammunition with capacity

up to 3 tons of WP per working day

From hand grenades to 155 mm ammunition

Environmental friendly, completely free of air

emissions

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Gabrovo Plant

Fuze dismantling

Four equipment for the safe dismantling and fuze

removal with capacity up to 1.500 units per

working day

Operation is automated and performed in

armored room for safety

Operation is controlled remotely

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Gabrovo Plant

Cartridge dismantling

Three equipment for the safe removal,

dismantling and inertization of cartridges with

capacity up to 1.100 units per working day

Operation is automated and performed in

armored room for safety

Operation is controlled remotely

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Gabrovo Plant

Furnace

Furnace for the safe and environmental friendly

inertization of pyrothecnics and initiators

With filtering system and temperature control

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Gabrovo Plant

Powder recycling

Plant for the recycling of double-based powder with

drying and cutting capabilities and with capacity up to

1,1 tons per working day

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Mines disposal

Six press machines and specific cutting equipment for

the disposal of mines

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Rockets and manpads

Safe dismantling and disposal of subcomponents

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Cluster ammunition

Safe dismantling and disposal of elements

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Specific lean equipment

Other specific equipment for the different operations

needed for the safe disposal of engineering explosives,

demolition charges, flares…

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Gabrovo Plant

Health & Safety

Two Health & Safety certified

technicians and two EOD technicians

perform risk assessment, operators

training and evaluation for every task

EXPAL Bulgaria is certified according

OSHAS 18001:2007

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Gabrovo Plant

Environmental care

One environment certified technician

performs environmental risk assessment

and analysis for all operations

EXPAL Bulgaria is certified ISO

14001:2004 for environmental care and

own all required authorizations for store

and disposal of the different wastes from

demilitarization activities

Wastes are segregated and treated

according to its nature

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Gabrovo Plant

Quality

Quality department performs a quality

plan specific to the requirements of each

customer and each demilitarization

contract, including process flow, control

plan, and verification of safety disposal

of hazardous and scrap materials

Quality inspectors verify the complete

accomplishment of operations

EXPAL Bulgaria is certified ISO

9001:2008 and AQAP 2120

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Gabrovo Plant

Security

One security coordinator performs

security plan for material movement and

storage, and periodic inspections

Storage facilities are controlled by

dedicated personnel

Warehouses are submitted to video

surveillance

Operators fill and sign daily file with

tasks developed and ammunition

involved

All ammunition components and

subcomponents movements are tracked

and recorded

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Emulsion

&

Watergels

Powder

Explosives Boosters

Hunting

Cartridges Civil Purposes

Defense/

Training Ammo

(when allowed)

TNT Comp.

B

Plastic

Bonded

Explosives

Double,Triple

Base

Propellants

Single Base

Propellants WP

Bodies

&

Cartridge Cases

Gabrovo Plant

We recover, reuse and recycle

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Gabrovo Plant

We recover, reuse and recycle

EXPAL Bulgaria can recycle and reuse,

incorporated on its production of

industrial explosives most of the

energetic materials coming from

demilitarization activities, including TNT,

Compo-B, black powder or double

based powder

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EXPAL Bulgaria

KV Charkovo, 5300 Gabrovo (Bulgaria)

expal-bg@expal.biz www.maxam-corp.com

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