Ammunition plant headed for Oklahoma

Brazil-based CBC Global Ammunition, through its CBC USA business unit, is investing $300 million to build an ammunition manufacturing facility in Pryor, Oklahoma.

“The new facility reinforces CBC’s long-term commitment to the United States defense industry and domestic manufacturing,” the company says, calling the planned facility “one of the country’s most advanced and vertically integrated ammunition production operations.”

Ammunition production can involve the use of several metals—including lead, steel and copper alloys—and, depending on the scope of production to take place in Pryor, could entail the generation of steady amounts of recyclable metal.

“We are thrilled to bring our new manufacturing operations to Oklahoma,” CBC President Fabio Mazzaro says. “This facility will be a cornerstone for our future growth in the world’s most important market for small caliber ammunition. With in-house production of all components, propellant and critical energetic raw materials, we envisage to build an industry-leading and fully vertically integrated company. We believe that the region’s supportive business environment makes Oklahoma an ideal location for CBC USA”.

The office of Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt says the new facility will be located within the MidAmerica Industrial Park in Pryor, which is in northeast Oklahoma.

CBC’s new facility will be built on more than 550 acres of land formerly used for munitions production during World War II. A groundbreaking ceremony at the site is expected late this year.

CBC is one of the world’s leading producers of military and civilian small-caliber ammunition, including as a supplier to the U.S. military “and allied forces worldwide.” CBC also serves law enforcement and commercial markets, with its Minnesota-based Magtech Ammunition business unit acting as its master distributor in the U.S.

The company's planned CBC USA facility in Oklahoma will manufacture a full range of cartridges” and will “replicate CBC’s world-class manufacturing processes, ensuring full control over critical components cases, bullets, primers, powder and nitrocellulose, a key energetic material in global short supply.”