UXB International, Inc. (UXB) designs, builds, and operates demilitarization facilities for destroying conventional and chemical weapons around the world. Our systems are designed to flexibly handle munitions ranging from small arms up to the largest air-dropped bombs. The systems are supported by minimal infrastructure, making their deployment to remote regions of the world practical and cost-effective.

Each of UXB's demilitarization facilities is built using a modular approach, using innovative technologies designed by UXB and its partners. The demilitarization facilities are tailored to address the hazards on a given site; and the components are selected based on their ability to safely, completely, and cost-effectively demilitarize the items at that site.

UXB has a track record of performing successful recovery and remediation services on a variety of Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS), active and closing Department of Defense (DOD) installations, and other government and private properties. UXB provides the people, licenses, and total services to eliminate the hazards associated with the identification, recovery, transportation, storage, and disposal of unexploded ordnance, Chemical Warfare Material (CWM), toxic industrial chemicals, and / or other extremely dangerous wastes.

UXB has been active in Chemical Warfare Agent site cleanups and munitions destruction in the U.S. and overseas for almost three decades. Our extensive experience with the Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board includes the completion of Explosives Safety Submission and Chemical Safety Submission documents for numerous sites. UXB pioneered the use of vapor containment structures for site cleanup efforts, and was instrumental in successfully adapting them to CWM operations.

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Munitions Destruction

Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility, Anniston, Alabama

UXB was awarded a contract with Westinghouse Anniston for the design, fabrication, installation and testing of a mobile, self-contained Static Detonation Chamber (SDC). The SDC is capable of destroying some of the problematic munitions stored at Anniston Army Depot, Anniston, Ala. The DYNASAFE technology was selected because it offers emissions control, but does not require munitions disassembly, and leaves scrap material free from explosives or other organic contamination. On this project UXB also provided services for the design and construction of the supporting infrastructure that included a 7,000-square-foot building.

See news:

Hot Detonation Chamber Completed Job at Anniston, NAOC Newsletter, January 2012
The end draws near for chemical weapons incineration in Anniston, Sept 2011
SDC Construction Completed

Also find out more on the SDC located at the Army's Picatinny Arsenal providing a clean, flexible alternative to incineration of munitions and reducing the amount of explosive materials that require open burning.

Munitions Destruction / United Nations Small Arms Control

Bosnia and Herzegovina

UXB delivered demilitarization services under a small arms control project with the United Nations to mitigate the hazard and associated risks with the storage and movement of unsafe ammunition in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The project provided effective and safe disposal of 58 Areal Fuel Bombs (FAB-275) and Areal Fuel Rocket-modified Bombs (RFAB-275 M-91). These bombs are also known as Fuel Air Explosives (FAE), thermobaric weapons which kill by the force of their shockwaves.

See news: UXB Balkans Disposes of Hazardous Ammunition

Munitions Recovery and Disposal

Kinmen Island, Taiwan, Republic of China (ROC)

UXB recovered, identified, categorized, segregated, packaged, transported, stored, and demilitarized the 40-year-old waste ammunitions sealed in concrete in underground tunnels. The project site was in a rural environment, with limited infrastructure. Multiple language barriers and extremely adverse weather conditions added to the unique site conditions. Qualified personnel used manual and mechanical methods to excavate and process over 12,000 metric tons of abandoned munitions. UXB disposed of over 10,000,000 ordnance items (varying from 240 mm projectiles weighing 360 lbs to small arms ammunition) and removed 570 tons of construction debris.

This munitions disposal project required constant innovation on the part of UXB to overcome problems involved with removing munitions encased in concrete safely so that they could be demilitarized. UXB cleared an inactive military range for the construction of a four-acre facility for a full-scale demilitarization plant. UXB moved the demilitarization plant several times to acquire a better proximity to the munitions, as many of these munitions were in too poor a condition to transport over public roads safely. Technologies applied on this project included UXB SteamPro™, an integrated autoclave system for TNT melt processing, multi-axis programmable ammunition water-jet cutter, robotic band saws, and dual static detonation chambers with off-gas treatment.

Rocket / Missile Fuel Treatment and Disposal

Mélange Neutralization Project, Baku, Azerbaijan

In an humanitarian project to benefit the local populous of Azerbaijan, UXB was contracted to design, build, and operate a mobile mélange treatment plant. The challenge on this project was to convert Soviet era mélange (liquid oxidizer for liquid fueled rockets) which had been abandoned and was in rusting / leaking tanks in rural communities. Mélange is highly toxic and unstable. The UXB solution was derived from a UXB process known as UXBASE®. The Company converted 1,350 metric tons of mélange into a non-hazardous, soil nutrient fertilizer using the environmentally safe chemical process which complied with the Rotterdam and Stockholm Hazardous Chemicals and Wastes Conventions, and the European Directives on Hazardous Waste Management.

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