Explosives Plant
A munitions, propulsion, composites, and explosives development and manufacturing complex located on a hill surrounded by the suburbs of southwest Salt Lake City. Alliant Tech Systems, based in Minnesota, acquired the large and diversified facility, which makes up most of the town of Bacchus, when...
This volatile chemical production complex was built in a remote valley near Cedar City in 1989, following a devastating explosion of the company's plant in Henderson, Nevada in 1988. It is owned by American Pacific Corporation (Ampac), a company based in Las Vegas. The Western Electrochemical (...
An explosive weapons development and testing site is located in the Potrero Hills, between the marsh and Travis Air Force Base. The Explosives Technology Company first developed the site in 1967, taking over an old Nike missile site, and acquiring a few hundred additional acres. OEA Aerospace, now...
The DuPont de Nemours Company operated an explosives plant at this site for 70 years, until it closed in 1975, after which the property was sold to the Weyerhaeuser Corporation. Both companies are involved in the clean up of the contaminated plant site, and only a few outbuildings have been left...
In 1893, California Powder Works moved its black powder production from Santa Cruz to this then remote area, up the shore from the new Giant Powder Works plant. The company was later renamed Hercules, one of the first companies to be formed by judicial decree, as part of the break-up of DuPont's...
The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, also called New Mexico Tech, is a technical university and part of the state university system. Though enrollment is only around 1,600, NM Tech is significant as the parent organization for several major research and development institutions: the...
Thiokol builds NASA’s space shuttle rocket boosters at this isolated facility near the Promontory Mountains. Other defense and propulsions systems are developed and tested here by Thiokol, on this major R&D and production site, part of which was once designated as “Air Force Plant 78.” Systems...