Bombrini-Parodi-Delfino

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| name = Bombrini-Parodi-Delfino

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| fate = Acquired by SNIA S.p.A.

| successor =SNIA-BPD

| foundation = 1912

| defunct = 1968

| location = Colleferro, Italy

| industry = Gunpowder and munitions

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Bombrini-Parodi-Delfino (better known as BPD), was a chemical company founded in 1912 by Giovanni Bombrini and Leopoldo Parodi-Delfino to produce gunpowder and explosives. Around its location in Colleferro (south of Rome) soon grew a small town attracting manpower from the nearby farms. After World War I, BPD expanded its activities on fertilizers and cement at nearby Segni (Società Calce e Cementi). In 1938 an explosion in the gunpowder plant killed 60 people.da [http://www.elenabrunetti.it/cartella/colleferro/esplosione.htm www.elenabrunetti.it/cartella/colleferro/esplosione.htm] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090409162459/http://www.elenabrunetti.it/cartella/colleferro/esplosione.htm |date=April 9, 2009 }} After World War II, BPD diversified into metalworking, textiles and chemistry. The last remaining owner, the Parodi-Delfino family, entered a joint venture with SNIA-Viscosa in 1968.Determinants in the evolution of the European chemical industry, 1900-1939, Anthony S. Travis, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1998, p.293. SNIA's chemical division was thereafter named SNIA BPD until BPD was sold to Simmel Difesa, when it was renamed SNIA SpA.[http://www.snia.it/en/profilo/la_storia/la_storia.php SNIA history.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080406051620/http://www.snia.it/en/profilo/la_storia/la_storia.php |date=April 6, 2008 }}