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1940s
1949
- Paints and leathercloth plants established at Somerset West
- Combined explosives production by Modderfontein and Somerset West tops 2 900 000 cases
- Profits exceed £1 million for the first time
1947
- AECI Pension Fund established, replacing an existing provident fund, and one of the earliest in the country to be run by a single industry
1946
- Modderfontein celebrates 50th anniversary of the founding of the South African explosives industry
- New factory at Klipspruit, south of Johannesburg, begins production of calcium cyanide for extraction of gold from ore
- Board approval given for various major developments
1944
- Name changes to African Explosives and Chemical Industries to recognise the increasing importance of chemical manufacture
- Research and Development Department established
1942
- Range of Ammon dynamites accepted by the mines; nitroglycerin finally displaced by ammonium nitrate for certain applications
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