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plants to establish the first ACNA, the
Associated National Chemical Companies, which began producing dyes. As the Cengio factory began to retool for the production of dyes for the textile industry, the ACNA became the first Italian producer of
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who kept the acronym but changed the name to
Azienda Coloranti Nazionali e Affini and resumed production of explosives and toxic gases, which were used in the
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in 1966. After leaving the world of weapons manufacturing, they instead focused on the production of synthetic dyes, notably including fabric dyes such as
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earning it the nickname of "the poison factory" which would see it brought before the
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