3.2.1. Usines Gustave Boel, La Louvière
| The images of this impressive iron works were taken a few months after it's last blast furnace went out of service. At least the hot rolling mill is still in operation. Many thanks to the very friendly people at UGB, who gave me permission to photograph the wonderful industrial installation. I took the images on a sweltering day, and I remember well the exhausting ascent to the top of furnace No 6. |
3.2.2. Cockerill Sambre, Charleroi
 | Charleroi used to be a center of steel production. The coal from the mines nearby fed a large number of blast furnaces. Only two of them remain until today, one of them already shut down. |
 | The 'Forges de Clabecq' is a relatively small steel mill, which does not belong to any of the huge steel empires. You can watch the fluid iron ejected from the blast furnace at night. |