New primer manufacturer

[CopperFouling]

It looks like primer manufacturers—all two of them—will soon have an additional competitor.

https://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/2022/jan/19/ammunition-plant-to-open-near-texarkana/

 

[Will Munny]

God Bless Texas

 

[22250Rem]

God Bless Texas

........ I second that motion... And God Bless Expansion Industries too. A little more competition will be very beneficial to a market that is currently too narrow.

 

[Slamfire]

God bless Texas!

I wonder if they put the primer factory right on the State Line. State street in Texarkana, half is in Arkansas, half is in Texas. The jokers put the Court House right in the middle of the state line.!



When it is not raining, it used to be a tourist spot, families standing at the sign. I used to have a Texarkana post card with an older sign and grinning people underneath it. I was looking for the Hotel that Bonnie and Clyde were reported to visit, and have a meal in the restaurant. It is supposed to be down there, somewhere. Someone must have patched the bullet holes.

Great place Texarkana. Lone Star Ammunition plant used to be west of the town, that property was BRAC'd. And then, when we got in a shooting war in Iraq, the USA did not have the industrial capacity to make enough ammunition, and you will find Korean ammunition ammunition in the military inventory. That was a surprise to find fired Korean cases on a military range. I wish the new primer manufacturer's the greatest of luck, and they ought to know, I will be a customer.

 

[Poper]

It looks like primer manufacturers—all two of them—will soon have an additional competitor.

Last I heard, CCI, Winchester, Federal and Remington all produced primers. Now we have another one. That will make six.

 

[CopperFouling]

Last I heard, CCI, Winchester, Federal and Remington all produced primers. Now we have another one. That will make six.

Federal, CCI, and Remington are all the same company.

Reference: https://vistaoutdoor.com/brands/

 

[Jim Watson]

But they are not all the same product.

 

[Poper]

Federal, CCI, and Remington are all the same company.

Reference: https://vistaoutdoor.com/brands/

They all produce primers and compete in the market place. Primers from CCI, Winchester and Remington do not all roll out of the same manufacturing plant. Vista Outdoors is an umbrella holding company.

 

[Will Munny]

I think the most accurate summary would be that there are two firms which produce primers, but more than two plants which produce them.
This news marks the entry of a third firm which is desirable on many grounds.

 

[Jim Watson]

Inquiring minds want to know about the process and the product.
Stamping out cups, anvils, and foil is a mechanical operation, lots of drawn and stamped products and machinery to adapt.

Q 1. Putting priming mix in the cups is regularly a manual task. Will they innovate and automate or train people to butter their primers like other makers?

Q 2. What mix? I think they have to consider present and predicted regulations and not use good old lead stypnate.
Has WW got a patent on Dinol or an exclusive with whoever does?
I doubt Federal will share Catalyst under license.
What do European "green" primers use, and could they license that/them?

Q 3. Where and how to get it? Buy, mix, or make? What do the other guys do?

Not likely public information yet if ever. But fun to think about.

 

[twarr1]

https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...ry-on-the-horizon.900608/page-2#post-12185966

 

[CopperFouling]

https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...ry-on-the-horizon.900608/page-2#post-12185966

Oops. I did not see that before posting. @Robert or @Odd Job, please close this thread as it is a duplicate. Thanks.

 

[danez71]

https://www.indeed.com/m/jobs?q=Exp...29723375&rq=1&rsIdx=0&newcount=3&fromage=last

Q 2. What mix? I think they have to consider present and predicted regulations and not use good old lead stypnate.

Energetics Lead Styphnate Chemist

Expansion Industries
523 Titus Rd, Hooks, TX 75561

 

[Odd Job]

Closed as duplicate