Atlas Powder Company

This article is about the explosives company. For a collection of maps, see Atlas. For other uses, see Atlas (disambiguation).

Atlas Powder Company
Company typePublic company
IndustryChemicals, explosives
Founded1912; 112 years ago (1912)
FateReenamed Atlas Chemical Industries, Inc., then acquired by Imperial Chemical Industries
SuccessorAstraZeneca
HeadquartersWilmington, Delaware. U.S.,
Wilmington, Delaware
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U.S.

Atlas Powder Company was an American explosives and chemicals company. It was one of the two companies that emerged out of a court-ordered breakup of the explosives monopoly of Du Pont Powder Company,[1] the explosives and gunpowder company founded by French-American chemist and industrialist Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours.

  1. ^ "Collection: Atlas Powder Company records | Hagley Museum and Library Archives". findingaids.hagley.org. Retrieved July 28, 2022.