Partnership established with a foreman, Joseph Eales from Cornwall, establishing Bacon, Bickford, Eales & Co. in Simsbury, Connecticut.
1837
First American Safety Fuse made.
1839
Primacord® detonating cord is trademarked.
1937
Formation of Space Ordnance Division. E-B contributes to all early NASA programs – Mercury, Gemini & Apollo.
1965
New Primacord® detonating cord plant opens in Graham, Kentucky.
1969
Introduction of Nonel® shock tube and Primadet® detonators.
1976
1978
Confined Detonating Cord (CDF) for the space shuttle is pioneered.
1978
Opening of PETN facility in Graham, Kentucky, EBCo’s largest undertaking to date.
1983
The Space Ordnance Division becomes Ensign Bickford Aerospace Company (EBAC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of EBCo, later to become Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Company.
1987
EBCo forms NAX (North American Explosives) in partnership with Royal Ordnance.
1988
Caleb Ensign White is appointed president and CEO and Joseph Ensign Lovejoy Jr. is appointed chairman of Ensign-Bickford Industries. EBAD acquires Shock Tube Systems, Inc.
2008
Acquisition of NEA Electronics, Inc. and SDI Defense and Aerospace.
2010
Acquisition of a state-of-the-art energetics manufacturing complex in Moorpark, California.
2011
Partnership established with Tactical Energetic Entry Systems (TEES) to offer international training in explosive breaching and Improvised Explosive Device (IED) defeat.
2012
NEA® Electronics, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Company closes on its acquisition of Rocketstar Robotics, Inc.
2013
