Emulsion explosives manufacturing, explosives supply-chain security and explosives engineering.

Zukovich, Morhard & Wade, LLC (ZMW) is a design and build engineering firm that specializes in projects involving explosives, propellants and pyrotechnics and has extensive experiences in explosive and detonator manufacturing. ZMW provides technical services for most of the world's multinational industrial explosives manufacturers. In fact, ZMW partners have been in more than 450 different explosives manufacturing facilities in the US and in more than 73 countries world-wide.

Technical Services

Explosives formulation, production technology, design engineering and installation of new or upgraded industrial and government explosives production facilities;

Emulsion explosives technology, equipment, process management and plant installation;

Studies involving explosives sales and marketing, explosives safety, Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA), Explosives Hazards and Operability (HAZOP) Reviews;

Hazards classification facilitation of new explosives substances and articles in accordance with the United Nations standards: “The Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods”.

Regulatory interface involving energetic materials (Europe, US, Canada, Russia)

Smart Explosives^TM , Smart Detonators^TM and ExploTrack^TM RFID Explosives Tracking

DMNB explosives detection agents and forensic explosives identification technology

World Class Qualifications

Design, permitting, regulatory compliance, public affairs, fabrication, commissioning, maintenance and technical support for forty-one (41) new or upgraded explosives and propellant manufacturing facilities over the careers of the ZMW Principal Partners.

Our partners US Patents form the basis for almost a third of the world’s nine million tons consumed each year.

Chosen by the US Government’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency and Alliant TechSystems, Inc. to solve technical problem of recycling former Soviet Union SS-24 and SS-19 ICBM propellant into emulsion explosives in Ukraine.

Provides technical services for manufacturing and safety for eight of the top ten multinational explosives producers and the top three largest multinational mining companies.

UN Hazards Classification for more than forty new explosives substances and articles.

Observed explosives and detonator manufacturing in more than 150 US and foreign government and industry explosive, propellant and detonator production plants.

Principal Partners

Charles Wade invented the first detonator sensitive and the first underground permissible emulsion explosive and several other emulsion and water gel explosives. Charles is an expert in emulsion explosives formulation, explosives chemistry and explosives safety.

Bob Morhard has extensive expertise in explosives and detonator manufacturing, explosives safety, blasting applications, UN testing, explosives and ammonium nitrate marketing. Bob‘s global explosive security vision lead to ExploTrack^TM and the invention of Smart Explosives^TM and Smart Detonators^TM. He serves on many international committees and boards and a member of the USA National Fire Protection Association NFPA 495 and NFPA 498 Explosives Technical Committees and is the author of the textbook: Explosives and Rock Blasting.

Tom Zukovich has extensive expertise in explosives manufacturing systems, design, and construction and startup of new explosives production facilities. Designed, and managed the successful installation and startup of the majoriy of emulsion explosives manufacturing plants presently in use. Tom is the go to expert for the design of emulsion explosives handling equipment, new processes for blending emulsions with other explosives and propellants, and new processes for packaging emulsion blends.

NOTICE - PATENTS AND TRADEMARKS PENDING: Smart Explosive^TM , Smart Detonator^TM , Smart Case^TM , Smart Magazine^TM , Mag-Track^TM , Smart Blast^TM , ExploTrack^TM , ExploTrack RFID^TM and the ExploTrack^TM logo are the subject of USA and Foreign Patent and Trademark applications expressly claimed and owned by ExploTrack, LLC. www.explotrack.com