Alienworks

This steelworks was used to produce cast iron using blast furnaces. It was founded in 1890 and has operated until the ’90s. The plant was using 4 blast furnaces and 2800 workers were working there. The plant’s full capacity was 400,000 tons of cast iron per year.

Exteriors

Mother nature took back her rights.

The boiler house

Every good story starts in the boiler house.

The blower house

Iron production requires a constant supply of high-pressure air to be blown through the blast furnace, this is achieved using turbo blowers who are basically doing the opposite job of what power plant turbines do.

Instead of producing electricity out of the blade movement, those blowers are powered and the current drive the blades in the compressor to compress the air.