In circa 1912, Sabulite (Great Britain) Limited (locally known and mapped as the Sabulite Works) took over the site and continued to produce high explosive materials, namely "Sabulite" and "Cleveland Powder", for military and civilian applications all over the world; especially for the Antipodes. Sabulite was a blasting explosive containing ammonium nitrate, trinitro-toluene and calcium silicide. The "Belgian Sabulite Company", who invented this explosive later modified the composition of their explosive for the mining industry. Their product was extensively used in the First World War, especially in mortar warheads and Mills bombs (hand grenades). William Herbert McCandlish the director of the Sabulite Works patented a new hand grenade for use in the Great War and a new cutting machine for cordite. The Sabulite Works went into liquidation circa 1933.