POWDER FACTORY

Duties and Operations:

• Producing propellant powder necessary for small and large ammunitions
• Making nitrocellulose and gunpowder for other MKE factories
• Making combustible cases and their adaptors
• Producing powder for the civilian market

 

Tests being carried out at MKE Powder Factory are as follows:

• Chemical analysis
• Shooting Tests

 

Product groups:

• Ball powders (5.56mm, 7.62mm, 9mm, 12.7mm, 20mm)
• Single base, double base and triple base powder and hunting gunpowder
• 120 mm and 155 mm combustible cases and their adaptors
• Various nitrocellulose types

 

Production Capabilities:

• Localizing propellant systems of the ammunition needed by the Turkish Armed and Security Forces,
• Carrying out R&D for new products.

 

MKE Powder Factory operates in a total area of ​​1,940,990.04 m² (29,178 m² closed and 1,911,812.04 m² open).