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Cokeries d'Anderlues
The Cokerie d'Anderlues was a coking plant in Anderlues located in the Belgian province of Hainaut.
The origin of this company lies in a mining company. In 1867, the Société Charbonniére du Midi d'Anderlues, founded in 1860, and the Société du Bois de la Haye, founded in 1858, merged to become the Société d'Anderlues, which was renamed S.A. des Houillères d'Anderlues in 1894. The mining activities, which had already begun in 1850, were carried out until 1967, and came to a definitive end in 1969. A large slag heap reminds us of the mining past.
In 1906, a coking plant was built on the 31.5-hectare site, where the residual products released during the purification of the coke oven gas were processed into pitch, benzene and the like. In 1908, production was 74 ktonnes of coke/year.
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