Former foundry works, Lincoln

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cgull123

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Lincoln Castings was an iron foundry that manufactured 40,000 tonnes of automotive castings annually for the likes of Volvo, Ford and Chrysler. The casting furnaces relied on burning coke to melt iron but coke is a fossil fuel; a finite resource that has shipped in from as far away as China and that with carbon dioxide emissions contributes to global warming.

But the foundry hit upon a solution. 40 million waste tyres are generated in the UK annually and the company developed a unique method of using these tyres to supplement coke in the foundry. The furnace operating with a mixture of 25% tyres and 75% coke, equating to more than one-third of a million waste tyres being controllably burned annually. The tyres were sourced within Lincolnshire and the sophisticated gas cleaning plant ensures that emissions to the atmosphere are unaffected.

This place used to emply 400 staff and worked 24 hours a day. Alas the foundry closed in 2006. The place is epic, massive and very dirty. Lots of stuff left in here and I didnt do the labs or offices. There is security and CCTV at the site.


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thanx for looking

as ever, few more on my Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/43022903@N08/sets/72157623261159294/
 
My advice to anyone that goes is don't wear a white t-shirt, especially if your catching the train back ;)
 
In some pics that reminds me of the semi live steel works we visited last year. Looks excellent, I'm the same as Mendo, forgotten all about the place. :(

Nice work mate, excellent pics. May have to have another trip to Lincoln in the not too distant future. ;)

:) Sal
 

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