Heavy industry

Exploring Cologne Godorf with a friend in 2003. We tried to get an official permit... without success. After sneaking around for a while we got caught by security. Heavy photoshopping on this one.

Foundries continue to evolve by adopting innovative technology & workplace safety.

The biggest coal mine in the world has some enormous machinery for excavation.

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How is steel made? Methods for manufacturing steel around the world have evolved significantly since industrial production in the late 19th century.

tapping the blast furnace no.9 at Magnitogorsk Metalurgical Works Magnitogorsk, Southern Ural 04/2013 Full: viktormacha.com/galerie/magnitogorsky-metalurgicky-kombin...

It gets pretty toasty at the TimkenSteel factory in Canton, Ohio.

Czech photographer Viktor Macha is determined to capture "the beauty of steel and iron making" before automation takes over and the sight of men working in the glow of molten metal is lost forever.

Women. Back in 1917 they were not seen very often at BASF. In fact their appearance had something of an exotic character here at the gas engine power house or at the production facilities in general. During World War One, however, it became increasingly common for women to work in place of men – although only until the men returned to their jobs. It was not until after World War Two that the notion of women in the workforce lost the character of a temporary ‘emergency measure’. The first…

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