E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Explosives Dept.

E.I. du Pont de Nemours' Explosives Manufacturing Department was created in May 1917 by merger of the Black Powder Operating Dept. and the High Explosives Operating Dept. From the latter, it inherited its own research laboratory, Eastern Laboratory, at Gibbstown, N.J., established in 1905. The Explosives Manufacturing Dept. was renamed the Explosives Dept. as part of the 1921 reorganization creating autonomous industrial departments. It absorbed the Smokeless Powder Dept. in 1936. By the 1970s the Du Pont Company had virtually gone out of the explosives business and in 1971 the Explosives Department became part of the Polymer Intermediates Department.

From the description of Records, 1889-1971. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122397143