The factory was built in 1963 as part of the Espérance-Longdozcompany. It was capable of producing up to 1.6 million tons of steel. The company has a long name and ownership history. The first change was in 1970 when its parent company Espérance-Longdoz was sold to form Cockerill-Ougrée-Providence, which merged into Cockerill-Sambre in 1981, Usinor in 1998, Arcelor in 2002 and finally into ArcelorMittal in the year of 2006. The steel factory was shut down in the year 2009 after the financial crisis of 2007-2010.

The factory was one of many, it was supplied from the blast furnaces Hauts Fourneaux 6 and Hauts Fourneaux B (also known as HF6 and HFB). After the raw material was processed in the furnaces, the liquid cast iron was transported to Heavy Metal via torpedo wagons. Once it arrived at the factory, it was refined into steel using the Linz – Donawitz process. The steel was then converted to sheets and other products, after which it was transported all over the world.

Heavy Metal, also known as Cockerill Sambre Chertal was a hot rolling steel mill in the Liege area. As of today, the steel factory is being demolished since 2022.

The steel cups are still here but some of them are already destroyed.

We found for the first time the control room sadly this is also being demolished but still beautiful to see.

You can see the deconstruction is already far. But now the roof is off I can take better pictures because there is more light inside the hall.

The crane of the big hall from heavy metal.

Here you can better see the deconstruction.

The other halls from heavy metal with a little control room and a big crane.

A couple of pictures with me in it. Thanks for my dad who made the pictures.