Alliant Powder

Alliant Powder continues a long and proud tradition of producing America's best and most popular smokeless powders.

Every container of Alliant smokeless powder is backed by a century of manufacturing experience and the most exacting quality control procedures in the industry. Alliant checks and controls chemical composition, the shape and size of powder grains, even the propellants' density and porosity. They send samples of every batch to their ballistics lab, testing for burning speed, among other things. Then, after blending batches together for exactly the right ballistic characteristics, they use their advanced computerized equipment to test again.

Alliant's origins as a gunpowder manufacturer can be traced back more than 125 years to the DuPont Company, whose leadership position in the explosives industry is legendary. DuPont's divestiture in 1912 created the Hercules Power Company as an independent entity, and eventually resulted in Alliant becoming America's premier gunpowder manufacturer.

The long, proud history of Alliant Powder began in 1872 as Laflin & Rand, later to become Hercules Powder Company — the most respected name in the reloading industry.