Tuesday, March 18, 2008

That Old Factory


OK as promised…

Ensign-Bickford Company
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Ensign-Bickford Industries, Incorporated (formerly The Ensign-Bickford Company) was started in 1836 in Simsbury, Connecticut as a manufacturer of William Bickford's safety fuse for use in mining. Safety fuse was a great advance in mining technology over the practice of filling holes with black powder. The next step in mining technology was detonating cord. Ensign-Bickford and other companies developed different versions of detonating cord. Ensign-Bickford's "Primacord" or "primercord" became the functional generic name for detonating cord in North America. In 2003 Ensign-Bickford sold the trademarks and processes to Dyno Nobel Inc of Australia (formerly of Norway).


I remember about fifteen years ago, we had a QA Inspector who quit and she went work for them. She gave her two-week notice and during those two weeks while still working for us, a part of the Ensign-Bickford plant went BOOM killing a QA Inspector and a chemist. As you can imagine she was very nervous going to work for them, but she did and the last time I heard from her she enjoyed her job.

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