Georgia's Metallurgical Industry - October 2024
Updated: Sep 9
Located 30km away from the capital, this large industrial complex began operations in the 1948 and was one of the most important factories during the Soviet period. It produced various products made from pig iron, aluminium or iron. This is Georgia's metallurgical industry.
The plant produced seamless pipes for the needs of oil fields in Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and the Middle East. The plant exports to the European Union, the United States, Middle Eastern, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey markets.
This was somewhere I found completely by chance whilst looking around Google maps prior to flying out to Georgia. The town of Rustavi was about a 30 minute bus away from the city, then finding a marshrutka to drive us in the direction of these steel works. The site was massive and we only scratched the surface of it, so it's in dire need of a revisit. If anywhere is going to look like it's part of the apocalypse then it's definitely here, where the things to look out for are sleeping stray dogs and bits of dead looking ground that look like they've been met with chemicals they most definitely shouldn't have.
This was also very close to the border of Azerbaijan which was interesting. Our phones started getting Azerbaijan related advertisements pop up.
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Metallurgical Entry Bit of a control room in the abandoned factory Ruin of an abandoned factory building
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