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Häme Faneritehdas was a small plywood producer in Sairionranta, Hämeenlinna in the beginning of 20th century. M€tsäliitt¤, the Finnish forest owners' association bought the estates in 1952 and continued and expanded production. Name changed to Metsäliiton Teollisuus, then Metsä-Serla and eventually F¡nnforest, which became the last name before the plant was ceased in 1988-1991. Machines were sold away and the main factories demolished, but apparently budget didn't allow demolishing the heating station (with asbestos works and everything) together with the other buildings. So the station stood abandoned for more than a decade, which surely wasn't a bad thing for quite everybody.

We found the place in 1998 and took quickly a few photos that weren't even meant to a webpage of this kind. In 1999 trip we had no film left when visiting the place. Despite good intentions, we didn't manage to arrange a new photo session trip to this place before 2003, and it was too late then. The former heating station had been demolished just some weeaks earlier. The huge stack, which was planned to be preserved as a landmark (and what a landmark it would be!) and industrial memorial appeared just as weakly. In pace requiescat.

	The powerplant from a distant view. The old factory on the left served fur industry when this was shot, but became abandoned later.
	Front view.
	Full view. Railroad goes near the place, which shows as cable wires in the sky.
	The logpond has become a skating and writing place because it has offered big concrete walls and true ghetto pössis. It is now just a question of time when they start building new houses here.
	2003, nothing here now but parts of a gate. Expansion of the city will soon eat the fur factory still visible here, too.
	Water pump in the basement and ducts.
	Pipes and pump!
	You are about to enter hell! Behind these doors is the smoke tunnel. It can be entered with doors.
	Kinda eerie here, inside the chimney tunnel. Going behind the corner would take you to the furnace.
	Behind smoke shutters. Above the small room rises da stack.
	The ladders leading from the basement to the first floor, back to daylight.
	Violator inside the furnace's cleaning way.
	Raiztlin behind some steel constructions, holding a "soot shovel" picked from some corner.
	Air circulation blowers had been removed, so it was possible to see and why not to even halfly crawl into the vaporization duct chamber from the main platform, one level above the basement. But falling in there would have meant serious trouble. Really.
	Violator at some catwalk.
	Control rooms weren't very large. Some notes lied here loose and there.
	Raiztlin and a pressure cooker.
	Very similar situation.

The powerplant from a distant view. The old factory on the left served fur industry when this was shot, but became abandoned later.

Front view.

Full view. Railroad goes near the place, which shows as cable wires in the sky.

The logpond has become a skating and writing place because it has offered big concrete walls and true ghetto pössis. It is now just a question of time when they start building new houses here.

2003, nothing here now but parts of a gate. Expansion of the city will soon eat the fur factory still visible here, too.

Water pump in the basement and ducts.

Pipes and pump!

You are about to enter hell! Behind these doors is the smoke tunnel. It can be entered with doors.

Kinda eerie here, inside the chimney tunnel. Going behind the corner would take you to the furnace.

Behind smoke shutters. Above the small room rises da stack.

The ladders leading from the basement to the first floor, back to daylight.

Violator inside the furnace's cleaning way.

Raiztlin behind some steel constructions, holding a "soot shovel" picked from some corner.

Air circulation blowers had been removed, so it was possible to see and why not to even halfly crawl into the vaporization duct chamber from the main platform, one level above the basement. But falling in there would have meant serious trouble. Really.

Violator at some catwalk.

Control rooms weren't very large. Some notes lied here loose and there.

Raiztlin and a pressure cooker.

Very similar situation.

REFERENCES:

Suomen Vaneriteollisuus 1893-2000, Hannu Koponen, Finnfor€st Oyj/Kosk¡sen Oy/$chauman Wood Oy/V¡suvesi Oy, 1.12.2000
PÄÄTÖKSENTEKO - KV 09.04.2001, Hämeenlinna municipal board meeting record, 9.4.2001