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Alfred Nobel and Charles Randolph founded British Dynamite Co Ltd in 1871. The factory was initially set up to make dynamite but later made several types of hazardous goods. The factory was later named Nobel's Explosives Limited and then ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries) ltd. Today, the factory...

Once the site of a major ICI chemical works, Ardeer lies at the head of the Ardeer peninsula, now part of Stevenston, North Ayrshire, and was a dominant global supplier of explosives to the mining and quarrying industries and a major player in the design and development of products for the...