Obwohl schon 12 Jahre alt ist dieser 350 Seiten-Kracher eine echte Empfehlung zum Fest.
Die Geschichte der asturischen Stahlindustrie, und zwar nicht seit Adam und Eva sondern ab da wo es wirklich interessant wird, also ab 1950. Das ganze anhand von Fotografien die offenbar überwiegend auf Großformatnegativen entstanden sind.
Schwerpunkt sind die ENSIDESA in Aviles und die UNINSA in Verina. Aber auch die Werke in La Felguera, Mieres und Gijon werden berücksichtig.
Die Infos sind knapp aber hilfreich.
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Aviles Coking Plant shut down.
Already on 30 September 2019, ArcelorMittal shut down the last two (3&4) of eight batteries at it’s Aviles coking plant in Spain.
The coking plant had been built from 1951 onwards as part of an economic programme; Franco’s dream of an industrialized Spain.
With it’s closure, the last major unit of the once state-owned steel group ENSIDESA will disappear.
The plant had 8 batteries of 30 ovens each and was planned and built by Didier-KOGAG-Hinselmann, an engineering company from Essen. It supplied coke to the finally four blast furnaces in Aviles (which have since been demolished).
In 1973, the state-owned ENSIDESA took over the neighbouring private steelworks UNINSA in Gijon. The coking plant there is also currently shut down, so that the last active blast furnace (furnace A) in Spain has to be supplied with imported coke. It is therefore questionable whether and when blast furnace B will be restarted.
Vintage Image #9
Blast furnaces Carmen (named after Carmen Polo, Franco’s wife), Joaquina, Rosario and Carmen IV in Aviles, Spain. Later called blast furnaces 1-4.
The furnaces were built in between 1957 and 1969 by the public enterprise ENSIDESA (Empresa Nacional Siderúrgica Sociedad Anónima). Hearth diameter was 8,69-8,99 meter.
Furnace 1&2 were shut down in1989 and furnaces 3&4 in the mid 1990ies after the hot metal production was translocated to the newer furnaces in Gijon.
By 2001 all furnaces were dismantled.
