[Texas Fossil]

A much needed timely event in Texas.

Ammunition plant coming to the Texarkana area

https://www.ktbs.com/news/texarkana/ammunition-plant-coming-to-the-texarkana-area/article_a00ac8b4-7a38-11ec-83e4-5754598b14c6.html?utm_campaign=blox&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

By JULIE PARR, KTBS TV Jan 20, 2022

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Job fair today:

https://www.expansion-industries.com/

[Billthedrill]

Oh yes please...BTT

[SharpenedEdge]

You can be sure that rather than encouraging and assisting this much-needed new initiative, Brandon’s Administration will sic the EPA, OSHA, BATFE, IRS and as many other tentacles of the FEDGOV on the owners, in an effort to obstruct, delay, discourage and disrupt their operations.

Good luck to them. I wish them every success.

[CarmichaelPatriot]

Next,they need to resurrect the lead smelter the Obama Admin killed off.

[LastDayz]

Now if they would pick up the slack for powder, business would really start booming.

[PROCON]

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[qaz123]

I understand that folks can get what they want. But the hoarding is at a level that is absolutely ridiculous.

[SauronOfMordor]

I hope they have a retail store next to the factory. It would do a lot a business.

A box of 1000 small rifle primers from CCI lists for $76, and weighs under a pound (currently out of stock).

I could see hand loaders making a pilgrimage to them and getting a trunk full for themselves and their friends.

[Hootowl99]

I've had short term projects at a couple of WW2 era munition manufacturing sites. Both of these and I suspect essentially all similar era munition manufacturing sites fall into the category of permanent brown fields that can be remediated to a much less contaminated and safer condition satisfactory for industrial reuse but cannot be 100% cleaned up.

The OP article mentions that part of the manufacturing will make use of the existing “hardened” infrastructure. I've been around hardened infrastructure around certain hazardous industrial equipment but hardening around these old military munition plants is off the charts.

One of the old munitions manufacturing sites I did some things at has been in continuous operation since WW2 making munitions of the same general type. The manufacturing trains and the storage areas are in long, narrow buildings divided into about 20x20ft rooms with doors opening into a wide hallway running the length of the building.

Each manufacturing room has equipment doing one step of the process. Small openings between adjacent rooms pass the pass the munition from room to room via a blast lock such that the rooms are never directly connected by an opening. Walls, ceilings and floors are several feet thick reinforced concrete. Doors to the hallway and to the wall locks are several inch thick of armor grade steel and had a small glass viewing port as thick as the steel door. Equipment now is fully automated and remotely observed by CCTV.

Back in the day, a handful of workers would be in each bay operating the equipment. What was different from my industrial experience is that the manufacturing bays were designed to contain an explosion instead of directing one towards safe direction. In addition, each bay was originally and still is connected to a water deluge system that will fill a bay floor to ceiling in seconds. Refer back to the top where I mentioned that originally, the bays were each staffed with several workers - No escape from fire, explosion or drowning.

[dinodino]

Yes please, I need some primers.

[ptsal]

Looks like good news