You guys laugh (and you should) ... but about 15 years ago I had a long-term consulting contract with a major steel company. (You would probably recognize the name.) At the plant where I usually worked they were melting specialty steels in electric arc furnaces using carefully selected steel scrap as feedstock. Well into my contract, however, I noticed that they had begun cannibalizing metal from old buildings on the property that were no longer in use, probably because it was even cheaper for them than buying scrap steel on the open market. I soon realized that the plant itself (and my contract) wasn't going to be around very much longer ... and I was right.
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ryan.hess Member
Posts: 20784 From: Orlando, FL Registered: Dec 2002
Exactly ... over a period of about 3 1/2 years. Of course, there was a bare minimum (e.g. the furnaces themselves) that had to remain until the place went cold forever. It was strange watching the buildings being dismantled, knowing that they were headed almost directly for the furnaces. It was kinda' like a weird robotic Auschwitz.
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Posts: 10007 From: Marion Ohio Registered: Apr 2004
Exactly ... over a period of about 3 1/2 years. Of course, there was a bare minimum (e.g. the furnaces themselves) that had to remain until the place went cold forever. It was strange watching the buildings being dismantled, knowing that they were headed almost directly for the furnaces. It was kinda' like a weird robotic Auschwitz.
Kinda puts the image of a desprate space movie in my head where they are dismantaling the ship or bubble thingy to survive....
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