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SOK/Finn-Match match factory, Jyväskylän mlk.

SOK cooperative store has produced several consumer products in Vaajakoski, Jyväskylän mlk. The chocolate factory operates still today, but matchstick factory (later merged to Finn-Match Oy) and clothing production facilities were shutdown quite some time ago. There's not very much to see because the buildings aren't actually abandoned. However, the power station is not used and a former warehouse is just storing some junk. Also a small section of the match factory can be entered.

	On a hilltop, surrounded by woods, stands an extremely bleak storage building.
	Before shutting down, the match division belonged to Finnish match group Finn-Match OY. Aged logo hangs symbolically loose on the storage's wall from one nail.
	The warehouse doesn't have many entrances, but one open is enough. The backdoor's sliders were rusty but the door was not locked.
	This plate inside the storage pictures the smoke stack some few kilometers away from the match factory. Maybe this storage was originally for that facility. The smoke stack has a unique Jupiter's moon -alike reel around it in a halfway.
	Another original SOK-logo in the storage. Although Finn-Match has placed it's sign outside the building, they haven't modified the interior very much since these old signs are still present.
	There was lots of junk, so that it was hard to try and keep civil clothes clean from dust and oil. For example, stacks of different marking rolls.
	Sizy toothed wheels and rolls fillt almost the entire central area of the storage building.
	There were also some very unoriginal items stored. Two museum aged fire engines of the Vaajakoski volunteer fire department.
	Some hundred meters off the match factory is this clothing factory. Nice architcture but it's not abandoned.
	Same subject with wider view.
	The power station. The doors were properly locked, and going in from the open holes would mean you're an ape.
	There are really no easy ways to go in.
	On second visit we even climbed to the roof trying to find some shutters or similar. There were many, but they wouldn't open.
	The smoke stack with closer look.
	Lake behind the factories in winter mode.
	The debarking and log cutting room is accessible from the same way where logs used to go in, the reelway which cuts through the wall and continues outside. Here the circular saw.
	Beware.

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