Explosives Manufacturingin USA
USA Market Research and Industry Report
30 July 2007
Industry Code : 32592
This industry comprises management units primarily engaged in the manufacture of explosives. These are deemed to be chemical compounds or mixtures that burn or decompose rapidly generating large amounts of gas, heat and pressure. The two main product segments are high explosives and blasting agents and oxidizers. Industry participants may also be involved in the production of blasting accessories such as blasting and detonating caps, fuses and cords, detonators and safety fuses. Raw material inputs are sourced from other components of the overall chemical industry (namely the fertilizer and the industrial gas manufacturing industries). The finished product is then primarily sold to the coal mining industry, as well as to stone mining and quarrying industries and the construction industry. The industry is not concerned with the production of pyrotechnics, ammunition, ammunition detonators and percussion caps.
The major products and services in this industry are:
| - | Blasting agents & oxidizers |
| - | High Explosives | |
The primary activities of this industry are:
| - | Amatols manufacturing |
| - | Azides explosive materials manufacturing |
| - | Blasting accessories (e.g., caps, fuses, igniters, squibs) manufacturing |
| - | Blasting powders manufacturing |
| - | Caps, blasting and detonating, manufacturing |
| - | Cordite explosive materials manufacturing |
| - | Detonating caps, cord, fuses, and primers manufacturing |
| - | Detonators (except ammunition) manufacturing |
| - | Dynamite manufacturing |
| - | Explosives manufacturing |
| - | Gunpowder manufacturing |
| - | Mannitol hexanitrate explosive materials manufacturing |
| - | Mercury fulminate explosive materials manufacturing |
| - | Nitrocellulose explosive materials manufacturing |
| - | Nitroglycerin explosive materials manufacturing |
| - | Nitrostarch explosive materials manufacturing |
| - | Pentolite explosive materials manufacturing |
| - | Picric acid explosive materials manufacturing |
| - | Safety fuses, blasting, manufacturing |
| - | Styphnic acid explosive materials manufacturing |
| - | Tetryl explosive materials manufacturing |
| - | TNT (trinitrotoluene) manufacturing | |
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