Home → Archives → by date → March 2007 → March 27 →
Home → Archives → by subject → Endangered Machinery →

Porte 1

<< Previous Entry | Next Entry>>

Click to enlarge
Click to enlarge

Cockerill-Sambre Site de Couillet, Porte 1
Charleroi, Belgium
Closed down


An early state of these works, the former Usines et Hauts-Fourneaux de Couillet à Montignies-sur-Sambre, later known as the Usines métallurgiques de Hainaut-Sambre, is shown on these 24 historic postcards.

Let's not forget the famous neighbour, either: in 1863, Ernest Solvay errected a chemical plant right next to the steel works in which he developed the Solvay process for industrial winning of sodium carbonate from brine and limestone. Most of today's world production of soda ash is based on this process.

Plenty of additional information on both facilities in Notice historique sur Couillet (free PDF download): industrie du fer pages 34-36, sidérurgie pages 36-39, la chimie pages 39-42, and industries disparues pages 47-49.

Comments

Comments are closed at the moment. I will post a blog entry as soon as they are available again.

-->

Tools

Recent Comments

Guido Albers on Common Questions (I) at 2006-09-18 19:40
Guido Albers on Common Questions (I) at 2006-09-18 19:39
Sean Roach on World Champion at 2006-09-18 18:52
Frank Kanzler on RSS Feed Reader / News Aggregators Directory at 2006-09-18 15:11
Walter Rafelsberger on Mapping and Visualization Resources at 2006-09-18 03:54
Pieter on Hunters, after all, aren't cooks at 2006-09-14 19:26
Haiko Hebig on Pentax K10D announced (Updated) at 2006-09-13 22:25
Pieter on Pentax K10D announced (Updated) at 2006-09-13 20:04
Donald L Pevsner on Concorde Retirement Update at 2006-09-06 21:01
John Best on RSS Feed Reader / News Aggregators Directory at 2006-08-19 17:49
Titov Denis on RSS Feed Reader / News Aggregators Directory at 2006-08-17 11:20
Haiko Hebig on WASP - Wild Child at 2006-08-07 10:14
Guido Albers on WASP - Wild Child at 2006-08-06 09:43
Frank Wenger on RSS Feed Reader / News Aggregators Directory at 2006-08-04 14:22
Hemaworstje on Spare Part at 2006-08-01 03:55
T.Reader on RSS Feed Reader / News Aggregators Directory at 2006-07-29 09:27
ניו יורק on General Blumenthal Coal at 2006-07-28 22:50
Moritz on "Zwar haben einige Genossen die Dinge zu einseitig gesehen, aber ..." at 2006-07-14 12:12
Pieterjan Lansbergen on Nothing better than a Hill Climb in the Morning at 2006-07-13 20:33
at on Es muss schließlich alles seine Ordnung haben at 2006-07-12 11:33