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FPPC is surely the freshest abandoned factory we've ever checked. The building was finished not earlier but at the end of 20th century, somewhere around 1999. The Pacific Pipe Company's business idea was to bring steel pipes from Russia, coat them in east Finland and export the produce back to Russia and it's massive earth gas and oil industry. Well, it didn't work in practise and the company went bankcrupt in September 2002. They managed to deliver exactly zero coated pipes for sale. Problems were not technical, but marketing-related.

After bankcruptcy, the hall stood empty for a while on a spacy plot outside the city area of Kuusankoski. It is still new and nearly unused, so it was no wonder that they found new users for the premises. The machines were removed and sold to Russia, where they probably coat pipes for same customers that this factory was trying to reach. So, I think it can be said that Russia beat us 1-0 here.

	Peeking inside this mailbox would not reveal much but maybe debt recovery post.
	Somone has bothered to bring the road sign away from where it would remind bypassing traffic of the total failure of the FPPC investors. Biggest of them was city of Kuusankoski, so apparently someone has had a lot to explain after bankcruptcy. This sign tells also the common language name given to the plant, a pipe coating factory.
	And here the factory as seen from gate. It's modern and tidy due to obvious reasons.
	There were huge doors, where big pipes could be transported in and out. Wind caused them to vibrate, which caused a strange sound resembling an approaching train.
	Hey, what do we have here? Yes pipes, some of them half coated. The factory had supplied a few pipes for certification tests, and these must be results of some test runs.
	Considering how peaceful the factory area actually is, it hadn't suffered much of vandalism. Here was the only tag we saw. Someone had also tried to crowbar these heavy doors, but I think a rocket launcher would be more useful if they really had to be opened from outside.
	The company's official logo is also shown in this one.
	This section at the end of the buildings had been designed for storaging. There was gravel floor.
	This wing also had something to store, it looked like leftovers of the construction phase.
	Hall behind those sound making large doors.
	View to the main hall. Typical feature in exploring big, hall type buildings was encountered also here. There was huge amount of floorspace, but since the machines were missing there was quite little of anything to really check closer.
	Somewhere around halfway of the main hall.
	Same place and rotated 90 degrees. Heavy air circulation stuff.
	Here they coated the pipes. To get a clue of what the machines that were here look like, check the deconstruction firm's reference picture (hosted on their site).
	View to the main hall from the wing that is behind the heavy slide doors that someone had tried to force open. Actually, this was taken from outside through small gap under the doors.
	Air conditioning and circulation must have been designed to be quite effective, since the machines must have produced lots of waste heat. And yes tehre are quite a lot of pipes here.
	Atleast this time we could walk the catwalks and stairs without needing to consider whether they would bear us. By the time of visiting we didn't know, that it had been just the previous week when the estates had been presented to potential buyers. Auction was held the following week and it commissed to finding a new state user for the building.
	Supervisor's booth and catwalks.
	Accountants had taken most papers away from the site. There just a few phone number notes etc. less interesting documents from the operation left. And the room had air conditioning, so the supervisor wouldn't have had to sweat if the heat creating production would have actually started one day. As a matter of fact, he probably sweat more because it didn't.
	This booth wing had a lab, meeting room and supply stations. Social premises and management rooms were behind fire isolated wall and door which was properly locked, so those we couldn't check.
	Peek into the lab. It was also locked and we didn't want to break things, especially since it only seemd to have some new furniture inside.
	Playing with reflection.
	Line tape left from the deconstructors.
	Looking down through catwalk grill.
	This was actually quite a strange find. The text was written on the floor. Perhaps Ekaterinaburg is where the machines were sold? It is dated only about two months before our visit.
	A bit surprising is that they bought the polymers in cans?? I suppose any pipe coating serie would easily require truckloads of polymers. But then, they never got beyond test production.
	We just had to take this photo, okay?
	Text of a drawer that had contained extruder related stuff.

Peeking inside this mailbox would not reveal much but maybe debt recovery post.

Somone has bothered to bring the road sign away from where it would remind bypassing traffic of the total failure of the FPPC investors. Biggest of them was city of Kuusankoski, so apparently someone has had a lot to explain after bankcruptcy. This sign tells also the common language name given to the plant, a pipe coating factory.

And here the factory as seen from gate. It's modern and tidy due to obvious reasons.

There were huge doors, where big pipes could be transported in and out. Wind caused them to vibrate, which caused a strange sound resembling an approaching train.

Hey, what do we have here? Yes pipes, some of them half coated. The factory had supplied a few pipes for certification tests, and these must be results of some test runs.

Considering how peaceful the factory area actually is, it hadn't suffered much of vandalism. Here was the only tag we saw. Someone had also tried to crowbar these heavy doors, but I think a rocket launcher would be more useful if they really had to be opened from outside.

The company's official logo is also shown in this one.

This section at the end of the buildings had been designed for storaging. There was gravel floor.

This wing also had something to store, it looked like leftovers of the construction phase.

Hall behind those sound making large doors.

View to the main hall. Typical feature in exploring big, hall type buildings was encountered also here. There was huge amount of floorspace, but since the machines were missing there was quite little of anything to really check closer.

Somewhere around halfway of the main hall.

Same place and rotated 90 degrees. Heavy air circulation stuff.

Here they coated the pipes. To get a clue of what the machines that were here look like, check the deconstruction firm's reference picture (hosted on their site).

View to the main hall from the wing that is behind the heavy slide doors that someone had tried to force open. Actually, this was taken from outside through small gap under the doors.

Air conditioning and circulation must have been designed to be quite effective, since the machines must have produced lots of waste heat. And yes tehre are quite a lot of pipes here.

Atleast this time we could walk the catwalks and stairs without needing to consider whether they would bear us. By the time of visiting we didn't know, that it had been just the previous week when the estates had been presented to potential buyers. Auction was held the following week and it commissed to finding a new state user for the building.

Supervisor's booth and catwalks.

Accountants had taken most papers away from the site. There just a few phone number notes etc. less interesting documents from the operation left. And the room had air conditioning, so the supervisor wouldn't have had to sweat if the heat creating production would have actually started one day. As a matter of fact, he probably sweat more because it didn't.

This booth wing had a lab, meeting room and supply stations. Social premises and management rooms were behind fire isolated wall and door which was properly locked, so those we couldn't check.

Peek into the lab. It was also locked and we didn't want to break things, especially since it only seemd to have some new furniture inside.

Playing with reflection.

Line tape left from the deconstructors.

Looking down through catwalk grill.

This was actually quite a strange find. The text was written on the floor. Perhaps Ekaterinaburg is where the machines were sold? It is dated only about two months before our visit.

A bit surprising is that they bought the polymers in cans?? I suppose any pipe coating serie would easily require truckloads of polymers. But then, they never got beyond test production.

We just had to take this photo, okay?

Text of a drawer that had contained extruder related stuff.