1872
Texas

• Alfred Nobel
  – 355 patents
  – owned 90 factories
  –  left his fortune to the Nobel Prize
• 1857 first patent for gunpowder filed in Sweden
• 1863 invented a new kind of detonator
• 1864 major explosion killed his younger brother Emil
• 1865 invented the blasting cap
• 1867 invention of dynamite
• 1875 invented gelignite
• 1887 invented ballistite
• 1896 RIO founded by Alfred Nobel
• 2002 Introduced to the U.S. market
  – McEwen, Tennessee
• 2012 the Nobel endowment was worth $472 million
• 2014 original factory in McEwen, Tennessee (exploded)
• 2015 moved to Texas
  – headquartered in Irving, Texas
  – warehouse in Marshall, Texas
  – 105,000-square-foot
  – produces approximately one million shotgun shells on a daily basis

RIO Ammunition
433 E Las Colinas Blvd., Ste 900
Irving, Texas 75039

214-389-1896

RioAmmo.com