Nonex™ cartridges are manufactured and assembled at our licensed facility based at Pelindaba, Pretoria, South Africa. Our Rock Breaking Cartridges provide safe and effective non-detonating rock and concrete breaking solutions. They break rock and concrete with minimal vibration and noise. Fly rock is 100% controllable. They are available in 13mm, 28mm, 34mm and 60mm diameters, with charge weights from 5g to 500g.
Nonex cartridge range comes in 5 different diameters
13mm Rock Poppers
Can be used for breaking small boulders up to 1 cubic meters in size (used widely in breaking crusher oversize), scale removal in tanks and silos, and small demolition jobs.
Requires a 14 – 16mm diameter hole which can be drilled with a hand-held electric hammer drill.
Available in 5 and 10 gram charge weights.
28mm Cartridges
Can be used for boulder breaking, armour stone splitting, medium sized concrete demolition, dimension stone quarrying, swimming pool excavation and other sensitive in-situ rock breaking.
Requires a 32 – 34 mm diameter hole which can be drilled with
a hand-held pneumatic drill using a 160 CFM compressor.
Available in 20 to 160 gram charge weights.
60mm Cartridges
Can be used for mass excavations, hard-rock trenching, large oversize foundations excavation and other sensitive civil rock breaking applications.
Requires a 64 – 76mm diameter hole which can be drilled with a hydraulic or pneumatic drill rig.
Available in 200 to 500 gram charge weights.