Spain’s EXPAL wins deal to develop US Army explosives processes

Spanish explosives group EXPAL announced on 14 March that it won a US Army contract to develop ‘pilot scale processes’ for manufacturing new enhanced blast explosives.
The USD2.4 million deal, with the US Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC), includes work at the company’s twin screw extruder facility at Camp Minden, Louisiana – the former Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant – and is due to be completed by August 2018.
EXPAL hopes to develop new energy projects for the US Department of Defense (DoD), along with its traditional work producing ammunition and decommissioning explosives.