A friend told me the plant that makes IMR powders burned down. I have not seen this anywhere. Any truth this?

Couldn't find anything about it but here is the company that produces IMR for Hodgdon. The plant is located in Valleyfield, Canada.

General Dynamics - Energetic Materials

The Valleyfield plant has had a few "unintended" explosions over the years, but couldn't find anything later than 2020 on the Internet.

Sure hope nothing happened. Powder's hard enough to come by as it is, let alone losing one of the production facilities. Of course; "unintended" events do seem to sometimes occur in places that produce volatile compounds like that.

Yep, which is why the Ramshot powders made in Belgium became non-existent for a while a few years ago. The plant had a major fire, and it took a year to rebuild the plant, and then somewhat longer to fill the pipeline again.

I would guess the Workmans Compensation rates for workers at a powder plant are above average.

My work took me to some ammunition plants back in the 80s. I think I'd have a hard time getting use to working in a building that is surrounded by a 20 ft high berm to keep the blast in!

I remember when the Hercules plant in Kenville or Kendale or Kensomething NJ went up in the 80s. My buddy who worked in the Poconos said he heard it. I heard (so it must be true) they were running Red Dot that day.

Correspondence from the ADI plant in Australia said that it takes six months to produce each batch of powder from start till it's ready to be shipped out. I had no idea. I thought they'd whack a batch through every week.

That is interesting.

I heard that they were testing reduced loads of Blue Dot...😁

My grandmother and her sister worked in a munitions plant during WW2, as I know a lot of other daughters, sisters, and wives did then, but I know what you're saying. A manufacturing facility I've spent a lot of time in had an event resulting in several fatalities just a couple years before I started doing work there, and it was sobering every time I walked by the empty spot on the property where once had stood an operating unit.

Batches every week, blending for 6Mo to get the burn rate consistent?

I told them what level of powder to not exceed.... but did they listen???

Noooooo....

Speaking of such, did Pac Nor come back to life?

Yes. Back in Bidness.

Valleyfield Quebec....having spent a bit of time there, I don’t think a powder manufacturing operation in Valleyfield is anything I want to get too close to.

358--Kenvil, NJ

Canadians.
Socialism - under a queen - across an ocean.
With a local governor that wears sparkly socks...

Probably no one willing to underwrite the insurance for a US based plant.

I have worked for Olin aerospace and I have worked for General Dynamics.

General Dynamics is so big, all the execs fly on different personal jets to visit the same place.

Huddling in some poor facility with only 400 employees, some small GD division is expendable.

I hope it's BS, cause im gettin low on imr4064

I hope it's not true but Ive got enough IMR 7828 to fuel my 280 the rest of my life.

Nothing to see here just a few suuuper bright lights & what sounded like several sonic booms. Just a staff party - no biggie.