All too often I find myself arriving too late to a scene of a spectacular ruin – in this case maybe a year or so. This, once a time very renowned special steel works seems like it has been a target of carpet bombing by a squadron of B52s.

The story is all too familiar here in Sweden (and elsewhere in the Western world, to be true) – Industry with 100+ years of tradition – heavy post WWII investments and boom during the 1950s and 1960s. Recession and crisis during the 1970s with government interventions and then a long and painful trajectory towards the bottom.

However, despite a fairly successful turn-around around 1980, this particular steel works finally closed in 1987. The equipment and machinery was more or less dismantled and sold to an Asian venture where these giant buildings were left partly stripped for some years. Since fairly recently, excavators and hungry jaws have started grinding down the concrete structures and giant steel beams are chopped into pieces.
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