Atlas Powder Company

Based on the U.S. Justice Department's proposal, a Philadelphia court approved a decree on June 13, 1912, that ordered the division of Du Pont Powder Company into three independent entities.

[2] The decision concluded an anti-monopoly case filed by the United States government against the company under the Sherman Antitrust Act.

[5] It purchased Giant Powder Company in 1915, which continued to operate a production facility at Point Pinole until 1960.

[10] Another technology attributed to the company was the HLB number scale, which was considered the first ever successful attempt of a quantitative characterization of the hydrophile-lipophile balance of different surfactants.

[12] In 1984, Atlas Powder Company filed a patent infringement case against DuPont over an invention that featured a water-resistant emulsion-based blasting agent.