For more than 10 years, our skilled R&D teams perform research and development of new energetic substances to satisfy customers' future requirements thanks to modern multipurpose units.

Indeed, the military explosives industry has been quite conservative and new high explosives have rarely come into use. This is despite the fact that the research labs, particularly in the US, have been very productive the last 50 years and presented a long list of candidate explosives. One reason why so few new substances have come into service is that there have been very few chemical companies, which have undertaken the hard task to scale up and produce the new explosives. In order to provide a solution to these needs, our teams have the past ten years bridged the gap between explosive chemists and users of military and commercial explosives.

EURENCO's specialty in this field is to scale up lab methods and thereby provide sample quantities to users at reasonable prices. Therefore, EURENCO's engineers and researchers evaluate each new idea presented to them very carefully, keeping in mind that the new explosives have to offer a significant improvement for the users. Another important criterion is that the production method can be used in an industrial scale and at a reasonable cost.
The products presented here can be placed in this category:

DADNE (1,1-diamino 2,2-dinitro ethylene) (FOX-7) Safety first in military operations: One of the most serious threats against weapon platforms and their crew is an unintentional explosion of their own ammunition: fires, high velocity fragments and bullets can all lead to disastrous mass detonations. New explosive molecules with inherent lower sensitivities such as DADNE (FOX-7) can provide safe handling of ammunition in peace and war times.

In addition to that application, DADNE (FOX-7) can also be used as a main ingredient of high performance gun propellants for tank ammunition. Indeed, DADNE (FOX-7) has been shown to increase the burning rate in propellants more than RDX does, which is very interesting in high performance propellants.

ADN (Ammonium dinitramide) Smokeless propulsion of missiles has a great military value. It is a serious tactical draw back if the signature from the propellant will guide the enemy to the launching site of a rocket weapon. EURENCO has started a pilot-scale production of crystalline, prilled and coated ADN. This new oxidant burns without secondary smoke and provides a higher impulse compared with, for example, ammonium perchlorate. It's the reason why ADN is a potential replacement for ammonium perchlorate in composite rocket motor propellants for surface-to-air and air-to-air missiles and space shuttles. ADN is also used as a liquid mono propellant for rocket motors, where the idea is to find a good non-carcinogenic replacement for hydrazine with higher performance.

CL-20 CL-20 is a synthetic explosive, based on a caged molecule with nitramine groups. According to its high heat of formation and density, CL-20's performance is approximately 20% higher than standard explosives. The high burning rate is useful for high impulse energetics for rocket motor applications like boosters. CL-20 is used as filler in rocket propellants, high explosives, high energetic aluminized and minimum smoke composite propellants.

GUDN (Guarnylureadinitramide) (FOX-12) GUDN (FOX-12) is a dinitramide with excellent thermal stability, low water solubility and no hygroscopicity. This substance has been proven to be an excellent fuel in gas-generating compositions where there are high requirements on thermal stability at high temperatures and a high gas yield.

A first application is for automotive safety: EURENCO sells the GUDN (FOX-12) for airbags and belt restrainer systems. By modifying the composition, it is possible to tailor a broad range of burning rates depending on customer specifications. It has been demonstrated that these compositions offer a significantly higher gas yield. This is important for carmakers where designers are always striving for smaller and lighter components.

GUDN (FOX-12) can also be used in LOVA propellants for artillery modular charges.

GUDN (FOX-12) is also a high explosive with calculated performance between TNT and RDX. Thanks to its extremely low sensitivity, GUDN (FOX-12) could be a main component in insensitive warhead fillings such as general purpose bombs, artillery, tank and mortar ammunition.

DADNPO (2,6-dinitro 3,5-diamino pyridine-N-oxide)

DADNPO is more heat resistant than HNS and could be used in hotter holes than HNS shaped charges for oil well completions; its performance is equal to HNS. EURENCO can provide sample quantities of this compound through small-scale production.

GAP DIOL

GAP DIOL is an energetic resin based on a polyether diol and grafted with azido energetic groups in the chain. The presence of an azido group N3 in the chain leads to:  Higher impulse, detonation velocity due to the higher heat of formation of the molecule,  Higher burning rate especially with AP,  High gas yield (for gas generators). GAP DIOL is used as binder in energetic materials, such as:  High energetic composite rocket propellant grains,  Cast PBX charges,  LOVA propellants,  Gas generators for automotive safety,  Energetic materials for pyrotechnic devices and systems.