The End Of An Era

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All good things come to end

Don't ask me about reasons

Politics above economics?

Just Remember December

The end of an era

Gone is the skyline

Gone are the clouds

Only the silence

only the silence...

RIP December 2000, Rozenburg: It was good while it lasted.

The First Victim

The first to go: The urea plant, obscured by the fumes of the cooling tower...

...while the ammonia plant is still running, oblivious to its fate.

The last prills falling onto an almost empty fluidized bed.

And Then... Goliath Has To Go

Her last breath does not come quietly...

...when safeties are howling  in a tribute to this record-breaking plant.

The Third Casualty

The Nitric Acid plant colors the atmosphere for the last time.

No pictures of a dying CAN-plant. Nothing shows, it just stops.

The Aftermath

(Impressions)

Peacefully she stands. Still whole, but the change of colors already indicating the first signs of decay.

The cloud generator has lost it's impact on the atmosphere...

Only the depleted dolomite pile shows that something's terribly wrong with this plant.

The bar is closed (forever?)