I last encountered this building back in 2020, when I was too badly equipped to enter its overgrown yard full of metal scrap. Now I knew better what to expect.
In the early 20th century a brick factory was built in this village. The company operating it later grew and grew and later had several different factories in the village. After the factories closed down in the 1980’s pretty much everything else was closed in the village, too.
The brick factory has been demolished in the 1990’s. The office building and furniture factory was used as the headquarters of a metal recycling company until the attic of the building burned in 2021. There has also been a sawmill, a peat factory and a graphite purification plant.
So now it’s time to guess, which one of them this is. I have no idea. Also most of the building was demolished in the early 2000’s, so this little tower is just a small section left.
And it seems, that the place has something to do with the metal recycling company next door.
Pushing myself through the jungle and debris.
And finally inside. But what the hell is this.
Every single corner was full of parts to some machinery.
As was this side room.
The way up is there. But not quite yet.
First let’s look at the ghettoblaster in the corner.
The stairs look solid. So let’s have a look.
All kinds of tools, small items and loads of office equipment.
Signs used by especially large trailers back in the days.
Different types of cash registers.
A girl calendar from 2003 issued by a major truck reparation company. I don’t think that would work anymore today.
More outdated office equipment.
Wait, isn’t that a motion detector? Hope they got a good smile!
An office with a view.
Files with names of long since gone Finnish forest giants and machinery manufacturers. And now the mystery of the last use of the building starts to unfold.
This company operated between 1994 and 2004. I’ve removed some of the address details to hide this location better. It was a whole seller of heavy industrial machinery.
According to this letter from 1994 the company calls itself a leading supplier of second hand machinery for wood treatment, pulp and paper industry. It has been buying and reselling old industrial machinery. That’s what all the components downstairs are about.
Like said, the company ceased operations in 2004. Around that time most of this building was demolished.
More views of the stuff on the second floor including a calendar.
The building was taller than it was wide. Each floor consisted of one room.
A newspaper from 2001.
The security company went out of business in 2018. I wonder, who’s guarding now.
One final view of the office floor.
There was one more floor, but access there was blocked by furniture. And I really didn’t feel like climbing. Judging by the moldy chairs and the bed there could have well have been a former apartment there. But we’ll never know.
So one more picture taken from the chairs towards the mess downstairs.
But wait a second, didn’t I say, that there was another industrial building on the lot?