Waltham Abbey’s Royal Gunpowder Mills will host its annual fireworks night on November 1, with live entertainment, family activities, ...

Manufacturers in Europe will have to abide by the TPO ban and reformulate their gels, but what about in Canada?

When Trish Honaker opened the doors to Wonder City Bakery for her grand opening in downtown Hopewell last month, a line of customers stretched down the block. “We made over 1,000 doughnut holes and ...

On the night of February 10, 1941, Major Trevor Pritchard hit the ground with a hard thud, his parachute billowing behind him. Disentangling himself, the stunned soldier quickly scanned the dark ...

A HUNDRED years ago there occurred a striking double even the consequences of which could scarcely have been foreseen, even by the most imaginative visionary of the time: Ascanio Sobrero, professor of ...

AMERICAN lawmakers are urging the US Department of Defense to explore the possibility of establishing a joint ammunition manufacturing and storage facility with the Philippines in Subic Bay. The ...

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Germany's largest arms manufacturer Rheinmetall on Monday said it plans to take over a supplier specializing in nitrocellulose, a product used as a propellant in artillery ammunition and other ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rheinmetall has agreed to buy a Mittelstand producer of propellants for ammunition, as Germany’s largest ...

Answer: Flash paper, guncotton, nitrocellulose, it’s all the same stuff with different names. It was a serendipity, or chance discovery. Christian Friedrich Schonbein (1799-1868) was a German-Swiss ...

(Bloomberg) — The last stages of gunpowder manufacture at Nitrochemie Aschau look a bit like making pasta. A mass of fibers is squeezed through rollers until it is flat and gelatinous, which is then ...