Nobel Dynamite Company

The starting point of the present British commercial explosives industry was the formation of the British Dynamite Company in 1871 by Alfred Nobel and a group of Glasgow business men. Ardeer factory in Ayrshire... 

Fortunately it was possible to obtain the services of Dr.-lng. Axel Homburg to co-operate in this publication, and so this book now bears the names of three authors. Dr. Homburg was Chairman of the Management Board of the German Dynamit Nobel AG Company for many years and has been a member of the Supervisory Board since 1996. 

AUSTROGEL G1 is a safe-to-handle, cap-sensitive gelatinous ammonium nitrate explosive. This successor explosive replacing -> Gelatine Donarit 1 does not contain any nitro-aromatics harmful to health such as -> Dinitrotoluene and -> Trinitrotoluene, and is manufactured by the DYNAMIT NOBEL Wien Company. 

Dyno Boost is the trade name of a booster charge made by the DYNAMIT NOBEL GmbH Company. The system, which consists of high-power explosive, can be detonated using a standard blasting cap. 

KNAUERIT SPECIAL is the trade name of a high-power plastic explosive based on -> PETN, manufactured by the DYNAMIT NOBEL VIENNA Company. 

Alfred Nobel s health had always been delicate. In his later years, he developed a heart condition and he often complained about his poor health in letters to his relatives. Nevertheless, when the situation so required, for instance during the crisis involving his French dynamite companies, he could display an amazing energy and drive, perhaps even ruthlessness. However, in 1895 he must have had a premonition of his life drawing to an end, and on 27 November he made his will in which he provided for the prizes that have been named after him. What made him select the particular fields of human endeavor where prizes should be awarded ... 

There were some major exceptions to the rule that munitions were marginal to industrial research, as exemplified by DuPont and the Nobel-Dynamite Trust and its international cartel sequel of blasting and propellant explosives companies. But the profitable core of their business lay in civilian explosives, notably dynamite and blasting gelatine. DuPont s products profile in 1905 was as follows ... 

During the 1980s some rationalization of capacity occurred in the United States reducing the number of producers to four with the purchase of NeveiUe s chloriaated paraffin business by Dover (ICC). In Europe, Dynamit Nobel ceased as a suppHer. However, elsewhere new companies have commenced manufacture to take advantage of the opportunities in new and emerging economies, particularly in Asia. Some suppHers of chloriaated paraffins are Hsted in Table 2. 

This melt-processable homopolymer was first introduced in 1961 as Kynar by the Pennsalt Chemical Corporation (the company name being subsequently changed to Pennwalt). Other companies now manufacturing similar polymers are Dynamit Nobel (Dyflor), Kureha (KF), Solvay (Solef) and Atochem (Foraflon). 

In the USA producers included Eastman Kodak (Tenite PTMT), General Electric Corporation of America (Valox), and American Celanese (Celanex). In Europe major producers by the end of the decade were AKZO (Amite PBTP), BASF (Ultradur), Bayer (Pocan) and Ciba-Geigy (Crastin). Other producers included ATO, Hills, Montedison and Dynamit Nobel. With the total Western European market at the end of the decade only about 7000 tonnes other companies at one time involved in the market such as ICI (Deroton) withdrew. 

Parent Company Chemetall GmbFl, Subsidiary of Dynamit Nobel AG (Germany)... 

With the new Mayor of Vienna wishing to part with the next chemical companies on the Farben list, it was understandable that the Austrian manager of Austrian Dynamit Nobel A.G. and Carbide Werke Deutsches-Matrei gave in. 

At that time, Dynamit Nobel A.G., still in a healthy over-all financial condition, was permitted by the Treaty to make explosives for mining. The parent company could have carried Rottweil without staggering, or put it to work on fibers. But this latter enterprise would compete with Farben, and that may have forced the decision to sell. Was Farben s acquisition of Rottweil really the opening gun in the later Farben campaign which swept across Europe If it was, Gajewski would not freely admit it ... 

An alternative route to DMT was introduced in 1953. This was based on air oxidation of y -xylene to /Moluic acid, which was esterified by methanol to form methyl /Moluate, which was oxidised by air to monomethyl terephthalate [40], which in turn was esterified by methanol to make DMT. The two oxidations could be combined so that p-xylene and methyl p-toluate were oxidised in the same vessel, and so could the two esterifications [41], The process was due to Katzschmann of Imhausen, a firm based at Witten and later known as Chemische Werke Witten. This process, known variously by its inventor s name and by various combinations of the names of the companies involved in its development, i.e. Hercules, Imhausen, Witten, and Dynamit Nobel, rapidly replaced the rather unsatisfactory and sometimes hazardous nitric acid oxidation route to DMT. 

While these divestitures were taking place, traditional fine chemicals manufacturers were able to enjoy new contracts for the synthesis of active ingredients from companies involved in crop protection products and pharmaceuticals. Many European companies were the beneficiaries of the new trend. In Switzerland the leader was Lonza, which became independent in 1999 when its mother company, Alu Suisse, merged with the Canadian aluminum manufacturer Alcan. Other Swiss firms—such as Siegfried AG, EMS-Dottikon, Cilag, and Orgamol, Rohner, now part of Dynamit Nobel—took advantage of these developments. Clariant entered the field on a big scale in 2000 with its acquisition of BTP. 

Dr. Rudolf Meyer was born on 4. 3. 1908 in Spandau (Berlin) and took his degree in Physical Chemistry. He began his initial studies in the area of energetic compounds in connection with his Doctor s degree in 1931 at Professor Boden-stein s Institute in Berlin with a paper on the enthalpy of formation and thermal decomposition of hydrazoic acid. After taking his Doctor s degree, he entered the Dynamit Nobel Company in 1934 as assistant to Dr. Ph. Naoum. He worked there from 1936-1945 on the development of pourable ammonium nitrate explosives and on hollow charges. 

Allied Corporation Allied-Signal Corning Glass Works Dow Corning Corporation Dynamit Nobel-Petrarch Systems General Electric Company... 

Commercial tetraisopropyl orthotitanate [Ti(O-i-Pr) ] (Dynamit Nobel) and titanium tetrachloride (Fluka pract.) can be used without further purification. The checkers obtained Ti(0-1-Pr)4 from Aldrich Chemical Company, Inc. and titanium tetrachloride from Fluka. Distillation of T1(0-i-Pr)4 did not improve the results. 

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