Atlas Powder Company

Atlas Powder Company
Company typePublic company
IndustryChemicals, explosives
Founded1912 (1912)
FateReenamed Atlas Chemical Industries, Inc., then acquired by Imperial Chemical Industries
SuccessorAstraZeneca
HeadquartersWilmington, Delaware. U.S., ,
U.S.

Atlas Powder Company was an American explosives and chemicals company. It was one of the two companies that emerged out of a court-ordered breakup of the explosives monopoly of Du Pont Powder Company, the explosives and gunpowder company founded by French-American chemist and industrialist Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours.