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Sunila Oy pulp mill, Kotka
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A small industrial building


Sunila Oy is a company owned by finnish paper makers producing bleached pulp. The mill started operation in 1938, on a former island, now a cape, which was designed to be a solid industrial community with labour accommodation, schools etc. from the start. The area is well known, because it contains a lot of architectural design of Alvar Aalto. There have been some rumours about the future of the mill, but for now it continues operation and is in no sense abandoned.

There is something unused though, like you can expect of an old industrial area. The most remarkable unused structure inside the Sunila industrial area was a Glauber's salt stock, a dangerously decayed concrete hall built around 1938. Instances preserving history (like NBA) opposed because of the name Aalto, but the building was demolished around 2007. Then there were, and partially still are, some smaller abandonments.

REFERENCES:

  1. Sunila Oy, official company web page