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Report - - Aylesford Newsprint, Kent - Dec 2015 | Industrial Sites | 28DaysLater.co.uk

Report - Aylesford Newsprint, Kent - Dec 2015

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kent-urbex

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Visited with Maniac, this had been on the list since February 2014 when the company went into administration making 233 people redundant.

Aylesford Newsprint

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Buildings

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Silos

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Npower power plant

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Old train tracks

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Pipes

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Crane controller and control room

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Two large conveyor belt leading to the machine which gently tumbles the paper, water is added which causes the fibres to swell. This also helps with contaminants such as cd cases and dvd packaging to be removed.

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Pm14 paper machine this machine is 114m long and 10m wide, the paper travels through this machine at 60mph

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warning lights

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Control room

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Overhead view

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This is where the reels of paper are wrapped for protection and labeled for the store room

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This is where the reels of paper are held, the warehouse can hold up to 10,000 tones of paper. It is 105m long and 28m high with 7 fully automatic cranes.

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crane

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Track

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Loading ramps

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Monoman

28DL Member
28DL Member
Split to it's own thread, it's too good to just be a reply.
I'm new here but I have just enjoyed looking \t the Ayelsford reports. Really good. I had mates who worked in the paper mills at Ayelsford whan Reeds and Bowaters were in ascendency, but they would neve rlet me see inside ant whare and had to retreat to Wiggins Teape at Dartford, a much smaller more specialised operation.
Good work, appreciated.
 
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