Explosive Products Manufactured
All grades of straight dynamite
Low freezing ammonia powders
Straight ammonia powders
All grades of low and high freezing gelatins
Nitrostarch powders
Commercial explosives with smokeless powder and cordite as ingredients
(Smokeless and cordite purchased from the US Government from their stores at the close of WWI)
Sodatol
Pyrotol
Camphorated Blasting Gelatin
Blasting Gelatin
Semi-Gelatins
Monobels
Durox
Tovex
The DuPont Plant did not produce the actual bombs or shells for the military, rather they manufactured the explosives contained within the shells and armaments.
Sodatol
Sodatol was made from surplus war supplies of TNT and Nitrate of Soda allotted by the US War Department to the Department of Agriculture and was used in clearing farm land and by State and federal Agencies in road building and other public works. Manufacture and distribution were carried on at several of the DuPont Company’s plants throughout the country.
Pyrotol
Pyrotol was made from surplus stocks of smokeless powder and Sodium Nitrate. One serious accident occurred during the manufacture of Pyrotol. October 7, 1925, the No. 2 Dynamite Mixing House burned while Pyrotol was being mixed and one man died as the result of burns.