Atlas Powder Company

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, the explosives and gunpowder company founded by French-American chemist and industrialist Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours.

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 (1912)
FateReenamed Atlas Chemical Industries, Inc., then acquired by Imperial Chemical Industries
SuccessorAstraZeneca
HeadquartersWilmington,
Delaware
,
United States
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