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| Industry | Explosives manufacturing |
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| Founded | 1905 in Paulsboro, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Founder | Jesse B. Bronstein |
| Defunct | 1967 |
| Fate | Acquired |
| Products | Explosive powder, other chemicals |
The Trojan Powder Company was an American manufacturer of explosives founded in 1904 that made nitro-starch powder. It had a manufacturing complex in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and another facility at Roberts Landing near San Lorenzo, California.
The company thrived during World War I (1914–18), continued research and development in the interwar-period, and during World War II operated a large facility in Sandusky, Ohio, under contract to the army. After the war, production scaled back. A facility in Oregon was sold for use by the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant. In 1967, Trojan Powders became a division of Commercial Solvents Corporation (CSC). It was later acquired by the Ensign-Bickford Company.