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Explore #212: HFX Blast Furnaces and Steel works, Hayange / Florange, France – August 2017

July 16, 2018
Adam X
France, Industrial & Commercial Sites, Recommended Reports - some selected highlights

Explore #4 of the ‘Greased Otters Tour’ Day Two was the centrepiece explore of our long weekend – the other sites we had lined up were all great in their own ways, but this one was an absolute beast – a huge decomissioned steel works which once boasted no fewer than six blast furnaces… History (translated and rewritten from here and here) The presence of iron ore in the region was exploited back to Roman times, if not earlier. The…

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Explore #206: Haut Fourneau B (HFB) steelworks and blast furnace, Belgium – May 2017

June 26, 2018
Adam X
Belgium, Industrial & Commercial Sites, Recommended Reports - some selected highlights

Explore #5 of the ‘Hot Filth Tour’ Morning two of our trip was some epic industrial griminess with this explore of a huge rusting iron and steelworks… History (rewritten from source information on wikipedia) The company which built the Haut Fourneau B integrated iron and steelworks dates back to the 1809 Fabrique de Fer d’Ougrée (Iron factory of Ougrée). Over the following century there were various mergers and takeovers with other local and regional producers. By 1914 the company was…

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