EPC Groupe

EPC Groupe (Explosifs Produits Chimiques S.A.) is French multinational company that trades in explosives and drilling; its explosives were made mainly for the coal mining industry, and to the British coal mining industry also.
History.
It was founded in 1893. 
Structure.
It is headquartered in Paris. It has forty subsidiary companies in twenty countries.
United Kingdom.
In the UK it has two sites, in Somercotes, Derbyshire and Great Oakley, Essex, known as EPC-UK. It began in the UK in 1905. The UK head office is south of the A38, at the B600 junction. It started in the UK as Explosives and Chemical Products (ECP), later part of Exchem. It has a 12,000 acre test site on the Essex coast at Hamford Water in Tendring. Exchem had a subsidiary in Essex, Thames Nitrogen, that made explosives.
Products.
It produces around 145,000 tonnes of explosive annually.