Explosives Engineering - IExpE's Journal

Explosives Engineering is published 4 times each year by The Institute of Explosives Engineers.

Explosives Engineering has a membership-based circulation of over 1,200 highly qualified owners, directors, divisional managers, senior engineers and consultants throughout the world who have significant purchasing influence within their companies.

Benefits to Advertisers

Explosives Engineering’s regular readers are at the top of their profession. They are very busy people who need a source of reliable, unbiased information on new technologies, new applications and new developments within their industry and Explosives Engineering gives them the quality of information that they demand.

Explosives Engineering affords a number of benefits and marketing opportunities to those companies who are able to recognise and exploit them.

• Establishing and maintaining a credibility within the industry by being seen to be associated with The Institute of Explosives Engineers.
• A far longer ‘shelf life’ for their advertisement message because issues are ‘live’ for a full three month period and are kept and repeatedly referred to.
• All advertisements have highly prominent positions to maximise their effectiveness - either placed on covers or facing editorial text.
• A range of special ‘issue sponsorship packages’ at highly competitive rates for companies wishing to celebrate a particular event or make a significant impact.

Editorial Scope

In addition to covering regular Institute membership items, Explosives Engineering publishes feature articles, new product updates, industry news items, professional development and recruitment vacancies of interest and relevance to a diversity of explosives users, including:

• Armed Services Personnel
• Pyrotechnicians
• Demolition Contractors
• Quarrymen
• Disposal Contractors
• Special Effects Contractors
• Explosives Manufacturers
• Tunnellers
• Firework Display Operators
• Underwater Excavators
• Miners
• University Lecturers
• Oil Industry Contractors
• Vibration Specialists

Editorial Programme 2006 - Main Themes

March 2006:

Equipment for Industry and Armed Services - protection, body armour, foul weather equipment, watches, luggage.
Oil Industry Services - including clearance diving.
Focus on Storage of Explosives.

June 2006:

Quarrying,Tunnelling, Civil Engineering and Underwater Projects - techniques, equipment and services; specific projects.
Focus on Detonators.

September 2006:

Pyrotechnics - Fireworks and Special Effects - specific displays and developments; the effects of new legislation; safety aspects.
Re-enactors.
Focus on Monitoring and Measuring Equipment.

December 2006

Demolition - novel and well-tried procedures.
Protection of Assets - developments in the security of buildings and infrastructure.
Focus on Offshore Services.

Advertisement Rates

in Pounds Sterling, all subject to VAT, as appropriate

Mechanical Data

• Full page 255 mm deep x 180 mm wide
• Bleed page 301 mm deep x 214 mm wide, trimmed to 297 mm x 210 mm
• Half page, vertical 255 mm deep x 87 mm wide
• Half page, horizontal 125 mm deep x 180 mm wide
• Quarter page 125 mm deep x 87 mm wide
• Eighth page 60 mm deep x 87 mm wide

Production Material

• Electronic media: complete advertisements on floppy disk, ZIP disk, CD, FTP or ISDN. All images must be high resolution (300 dpi). Files may also be supplied by e mail.
• Macintosh: files produced in QuarkXPress or Photoshop. EPS files with fonts correctly embedded or turned to outline are accepted.
• PC: MS Word text files, QuarkXPress v.4 files or PC graphics files saved in tiff format.
• A full Technical Specification sheet relating to Advertisement Production is available on request
• Copy deadlines 1st of month prior to publication
• Publication months March, June, September and December
• Cancellation 45 days prior to publication date