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Holston Army Ammunition Plant, Along Holston River, Kingsport, Sullivan County, TN
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Significance: During WWII, the plant made several significant contributions to explosives-manufacturing technology. It was the first large-scale facility to implement the nearly developed Bachmann process in the manufacture of the explosive RDX. At the same time, it streamlined the Bachmann method by instituting a slurry-based, continuous manufacturing process, and it also developed important new cooling and packaging procedures for composition B. As a result of these innovations, Holston became the world's largest producer of Composition B, the post powerful explosive until the development of nuclear weapons.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-3
Survey number: HAER TN-10
Building/structure dates: 1942- 1944 Initial Construction
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