Dyno Nobel: Global Audit Confidence, One Year Early

About Dyno Nobel

Company Size: 5,500+ employees 

Industry: Commercial explosives, blasting technology, and mining services (previously also fertilisers)

Product Implemented: Automated Data Integrations, Corporate Carbon Footprinting (CCF), Product Carbon Footprint (PCF), Reduce

HQ: Brisbane, Australia (ASX-listed as DNL, formerly Incitec Pivot Limited)

Dyno Nobel Limited (ASX: DNL, formerly Incitec Pivot Limited) is a global leader in blasting technology, commercial explosives, and mining services to the mining, quarry, and construction sectors. Operating across Australia, the Americas, Asia Pacific, and Europe with over 5,500 employees, Dyno Nobel reported 1.6 million tonnes of CO₂e in scope 1 & 2 emissions in FY2025 and produced more than 1.7 million tonnes of product for sale.

Dyno Nobel reports under Australia’s mandatory NGER scheme, has a ‘net zero by 2050’ ambition, and has set near-term and medium-term absolute scope 1 and 2 emission reduction targets and 2030 scope 3 targets by business unit.

The Challenge

Dyno Nobel had been managing GHG emissions tracking through spreadsheets. While functional for reporting, this approach created three critical gaps as their regulatory obligations and sustainability ambitions grew:

1. No consolidated global view in real time. While Dyno Nobel had a global view of emissions, data was only collected annually in several jurisdictions. This limited the team’s ability to detect anomalies and proactively isolate and address data issues. Dyno Nobel needed to move to a monthly measurement cycle globally and consistently.

2. Audit readiness at risk. With ASRS reporting requirements approaching, Dyno Nobel needed a platform that could produce data robust enough to withstand external assurance by their existing audit partner, beyond internal tracking via spreadsheets.

3. Limited scalability for monthly reporting. Their growing need for monthly scope 1, 2, and 3 measurement to support high quality product carbon footprint data for customers and NGER and ASRS compliance required a more efficient, repeatable data collection process than the manual system could provide.

The Terrascope Solution

Streamlined data onboarding. Terrascope built custom upload templates configured to Dyno Nobel’s pre-existing internal data formats, eliminating manual reformatting and reducing the upload process to approximately 5-10 minutes per file. This enabled rapid onboarding of historical data and established an efficient, repeatable monthly measurement cycle.

Automated integrations powering monthly measurement. Terrascope built automated data integrations tailored to Dyno Nobel’s existing systems. Data is ‘pushed’ to Terrascope directly from Dyno Nobel’s SAP Data Connect outputs and third party invoice scanning services. Each new data source follows a “build once, then automate” approach: the first month is processed manually to build a reusable transformation script, which then is used for monthly uploads overseen by the Dyno Nobel team. Automated validation scripts catch data quality issues at the point of ingestion, ensuring the monthly cycle produces audit-grade data from day one.

Monthly measurement enabling audit-grade data quality. Australian sites had long collected emissions data monthly, but international operations ran on annual cycles. Terrascope’s automations now bring all global sites onto a consistent monthly cadence for scopes 1, 2, and 3, allowing the team to isolate data anomalies quickly, fix issues at source, and meet auditor expectations for granular, traceable evidence as to where and when emissions occur.

Co-developing the next phase: product carbon footprints. Building on the success of these integrations, Dyno Nobel and Terrascope are now collaborating on improved product carbon footprint (PCF) capabilities. Dyno Nobel chose Terrascope over competitors in part for this co-development model: rather than accepting an off-the-shelf solution, the Dyno Nobel team is providing direct input into the design of a top-down PCF calculation approach tailored to the realities of complex, multi-product manufacturing facilities - where shared steam and energy systems make ingredient-level allocation impractical.

Production data from SAP will be pushed directly into the PCF module once live, extending the same integration architecture that already powers their monthly corporate footprint. Internal benchmarking has shown Dyno Nobel’s product-level emissions are typically lower than ecoinvent generic factors, giving them a competitive edge with downstream buyers seeking to reduce their own scope 3 and giving their customers a credible, verified alternative to industry-average data.

Data continuity through business change. When Dyno Nobel divested its fertilisers business (more than halving scope 1 emissions), Terrascope worked closely with their team to update emissions boundaries and maintain data integrity, ensuring carbon accounting remained accurate and audit-ready throughout a major corporate transformation.

Consolidated global emissions measurement. For the first time, Dyno Nobel could see its scope 1, 2, and 3 GHG emissions consolidated across its global operations in a single platform. This global view is a critical enabler for completing their first global Scope 3 Limited Assurance audit in September 2026, a concrete milestone that will demonstrate the platform’s ability to deliver on regulatory timelines. In the 2025 GRI Index and Data Supplement, Dyno Nobel credits emission factors as “retrieved via Terrascope data platform in 2025” for operations across the US, Canada, Mexico, Chile, and France, among other regions, making Terrascope the single source of truth for global emissions calculations.

The Impact

Terrascope transformed Dyno Nobel’s GHG emissions management from a series of spreadsheets collected across different timeframes to a consolidated, monthly, audit-ready global platform. With Terrascope, Dyno Nobel has been able to:

Complete their first global assurance audits, consolidating scope 1, 2, and 3 data across global operations for the first time, with scope 1&2 measurement and Limited Assurance audit completed in November 2025 and scope 1&2 reasonable Assurance and Scope 3 Limited Assurance to be completed in November 2026.

Achieve ASRS GHG assurance requirements one year early, using the lead time to iron out data quality issues ahead of the mandatory deadline.

Improve data quality and audit-readiness through monthly measurement, enabling international sites to isolate data anomalies at source, fix issues before they compound, and meet auditor expectations for granular evidence year-round.

Co-develop platform capabilities. Dyno Nobel chose Terrascope over competitors for the ability to collaboratively shape PCF features tailored to complex manufacturing realities.
Set and meet a range of GHG reduction targets below a 2020 baseline year, supported by the measurement foundation Terrascope provides.

Extend internal understanding and management of product carbon footprints and scope 3 across the organisation, by providing training and access for procurement, business unit and commercial teams though the Terrascope Scope 3 module.

Key Results

By working with Terrascope, Dyno Nobel now operates one of the most sophisticated GHG emissions measurement programs in their industry: one that measures carbon footprints monthly, tracks emissions reduction ambitions, and captures product-level carbon visibility for customers.

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