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  2. Confederate Powderworks - Wikipedia

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    More than 2.75 million pounds of first-quality gunpowder (a majority of the powder used by the Confederacy) were produced before its closure in 1865. [5] By comparison, Union gunpowder manufacture was distributed among many mills, with the larger Hazard Powder Company of Connecticut producing 40% of the annual production of 8.4 million pounds. [6]

  3. Powder mill - Wikipedia

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    As smokeless powder and high explosives replaced gunpowder for most purposes, DuPont became the major manufacturer of United States gunpowder until discontinuing production in 1971. Subsequent production for use in pyrotechnics and antique firearms has been undertaken by smaller firms whose operations are often ended by the persistent hazard of ...

  4. Poudreries Réunies de Belgique - Wikipedia

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    Poudreries Réunies de Belgique SA (or PRB) was one of Belgium's oldest and largest manufacturers of munitions, once the second-largest Belgium armaments manufacturer. [1] The company indirectly started in 1778 in Wetteren as a gunpowder factory. By its 200th anniversary in 1979 it had 73 factories throughout the world, with the headquarters in ...

  5. Oriental Powder Company - Wikipedia

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    Oriental Powder Company was a gunpowder manufacturer with mills located on the Presumpscot River in Gorham and Windham, Maine. The company was one of the four largest suppliers to Union forces through the American Civil War .

  6. American Powder Mills - Wikipedia

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    American Powder Mills (1883–1929) was a Massachusetts gunpowder manufacturing complex on the Assabet River. It expanded to include forty buildings along both sides of the river in the towns of Acton, Concord, Maynard, and Sudbury. Press mills, kernelling mills, glazing mills, and storehouses were dispersed over four-hundred acres to minimize ...

  7. Barnaul Cartridge Plant - Wikipedia

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    During World War 2 it was evacuated again to its current location in Barnaul in 1941. [1] The factory is part of the Barnaul Machine Tool Building Plant holding. [2] In June 2023, Poly Technologies was identified as supplying Barnaul Cartridge Plant with gunpowder during the Russo-Ukrainian War. [3] [4]

  8. Peters Cartridge Company - Wikipedia

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    Manufacturing facilities were dispersed along the 2-mile (3.2 km) power canal to minimize damage during infrequent explosions. King's son-in-law Gershom Moore Peters began working at the powder mill in 1881 and became president of the powder company when King died in 1885. Peters formed the Peters Cartridge Company at Kings Mills in 1887.

  9. Laflin & Rand Powder Company - Wikipedia

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    Laflin & Rand's Passaic Powder Mills in Passaic County, New Jersey. Laflin & Rand Powder Company was a gunpowder and early smokeless powder manufacturer notable for producing the smokeless powder used by United States Army infantry rifles from 1896 to 1908, which included the period of development of the M1903 Springfield rifle and .30-06 Springfield cartridge.