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The Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant was originally known as the Sunflower Ordnance Works. Established in 1941 on 10,747 acres (43.492 km 2 ), it was the world's largest smokeless powder plant. Among the over 10,000 acres of the site was the former community of Prairie Center.
Sunflower persisted ,through the ordnance plant’s eventual shutdown in 1992, through years of toxic waste cleanup and through years of unrealized plans to turn the ordnance site into, among ...
Panasonic plans to build a $4 billion, 4,000-employee factory at the former Sunflower Ammunition plant in De Soto to make batteries for the rapidly growing electric vehicle market. On Wednesday ...
Sunflower Ordnance Works, southwest of De Soto, Kansas. This plant was opened in 1942 and the facilities were owned by the U.S. government. It was operated by Hercules Powder Company. Hercules eventually changed its name to Hercules Incorporated.
Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant; W. Watertown Arsenal; Watervliet Arsenal; Weldon Spring Ordnance Works; West Virginia Ordnance Works This page was last edited on 16 ...
Sunflower persisted — through the ordnance plant’s eventual shutdown in 1992, through years of toxic waste cleanup and through years of unrealized plans to turn the ordnance site into, among ...
U.S. ordnance facilities were placed in the mid-U.S. during World War II. Other plants to be built and owned by others included the Kansas Ordnance Plant at Parsons, Kansas , the Sunflower Ordnance Plant at De Soto, Kansas , the Ozark Ordnance Plant at El Dorado, Arkansas .
Gov. Laura Kelly scheduled a special event in Topeka Wednesday afternoon.