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CSGD
Visited with members Chaos and non member Markymark
In regards to history and information it's a bit of a mixed bag, and after an exhaustive search online it still baffles me, so without giving too much away.....here goes
History
Its a mish mash of varying steel companies and take overs that span a few hundred years. In modern terms steel has been produced at the CSDG site since around the early 1800's. It was an independent company until 1966 where it joined a large company comprising of off shoot steel production installations in Belgium, France and Germany. In the 1980's the French plants closed leaving the Belgian Plant to function alone up until early 2000's. This in turn saw the company switch hands again. It ran until late 2008 when the the need for cheap steel from countries such as Korea, China, and Brazil take over the industry. The plant closed down operations in 2008 with plans to restart in the future which unfortunately never happened due to a massive failure in another potential merger.
The plant closed in 2012 with the loss of thousands of jobs which had a detrimental impact on the local population and area.
The Explore
For want of a better word this place is 'gargantuan'....epic doesn't even come close.
We were driving around this industrial area of Belgium in complete awe, the site we were on our way too looked 'doable' as we drove by. We parked up and wandered down toward our pre planned point of entry. There was a lot of activity considering it wasn't active so we cautiously slipped past a couple of cameras and up and over a wall.
We we're in....
I thought Thamesteel was big, this was something else.
The site literally buzzes with live voltage all over, there are lights lit on a lot of the machinery which brought out the "press the big red button!" in me but thought better of it. We wandered around taking in the size of the machinery and the main pot hall. Stairwells and walk ways led to various different locations within the confines of the beast offering us the angles and lines we were striving for.
A thick layer of grey dust lays everywhere leaving footprints behind which can only be described as moon like, not only that but there also seemed to be the presence of our furry friends cutting about, all the soft dust left over from the steel production had a scattering of rather large paw prints. We were certainly on our toes throughout the explore, and nearly got caught out....luckily we weren't spotted, Markymark certainly had a close shave.
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We only scratched the surface of this location....there's a lot more to see
Thanks for looking
Visited with members Chaos and non member Markymark
In regards to history and information it's a bit of a mixed bag, and after an exhaustive search online it still baffles me, so without giving too much away.....here goes
History
Its a mish mash of varying steel companies and take overs that span a few hundred years. In modern terms steel has been produced at the CSDG site since around the early 1800's. It was an independent company until 1966 where it joined a large company comprising of off shoot steel production installations in Belgium, France and Germany. In the 1980's the French plants closed leaving the Belgian Plant to function alone up until early 2000's. This in turn saw the company switch hands again. It ran until late 2008 when the the need for cheap steel from countries such as Korea, China, and Brazil take over the industry. The plant closed down operations in 2008 with plans to restart in the future which unfortunately never happened due to a massive failure in another potential merger.
The plant closed in 2012 with the loss of thousands of jobs which had a detrimental impact on the local population and area.
The Explore
For want of a better word this place is 'gargantuan'....epic doesn't even come close.
We were driving around this industrial area of Belgium in complete awe, the site we were on our way too looked 'doable' as we drove by. We parked up and wandered down toward our pre planned point of entry. There was a lot of activity considering it wasn't active so we cautiously slipped past a couple of cameras and up and over a wall.
We we're in....
I thought Thamesteel was big, this was something else.
The site literally buzzes with live voltage all over, there are lights lit on a lot of the machinery which brought out the "press the big red button!" in me but thought better of it. We wandered around taking in the size of the machinery and the main pot hall. Stairwells and walk ways led to various different locations within the confines of the beast offering us the angles and lines we were striving for.
A thick layer of grey dust lays everywhere leaving footprints behind which can only be described as moon like, not only that but there also seemed to be the presence of our furry friends cutting about, all the soft dust left over from the steel production had a scattering of rather large paw prints. We were certainly on our toes throughout the explore, and nearly got caught out....luckily we weren't spotted, Markymark certainly had a close shave.
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We only scratched the surface of this location....there's a lot more to see
Thanks for looking
