Design New Lacquer Preparation Facility for RDX and HMX Production at Holston Army Ammunition Plant (HSAAP)

es for the production of all plastic bonded explosives (PBX). The facility receives, stores, handles, and processes the binder materials and solvents in manufacturing the lacquer in explosives production. Mobile wagons are used to transfer lacquer from the facility to the explosives production build

ings. Lacquer is a mixture of dissolved rubbery polymer materials in a solvent that is used as a binding agent in reducing the sensitivity of RDX, HMX, and TATB based explosives formulations. A plasticizer instead of lacquer may also be pre