{"id":579,"date":"2011-03-14T19:03:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T19:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/?p=579"},"modified":"2013-11-16T23:41:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T23:41:55","slug":"hyundai-freescale-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/industrial\/hyundai-freescale-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyundai Freescale Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve visited this gigantic white elephant before – originally built by Hyundai at a cost of over \u00a32bn, it was to be the largest chip fabrication plant in Europe, with a clean room bigger than two football fields. Never finished, it passed to Motorola and their Freescale subsidiary, then there were plans for a solar cell manufacturer to take it over.<\/p>\n

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\nNow, it’s finally been sold – to the Shepherd Offshore Group, who are going to demolish the lot. What a colossal waste, but realistically there was nothing else such a specialist building could be used for.<\/p>\n

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Compared to my previous visits, the biggest difference was that, finally, all the lights have been turned off. Which meant for lots of light painting fun with my biggest torch.<\/p>\n

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Some stripping of the millions of pounds worth of unused equipment has also begun.<\/p>\n

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One of the main corridors – if you zoom in, you can just about see me. I’m only about half way along the corridor as well…<\/p>\n

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A bunch of massive fans, never removed from their packaging:<\/p>\n

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Have a look what it says on the bridge \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Most of the equipment has been auctioned off, and sits carefully sorted into lots:<\/p>\n

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This is the giant clean room – again, if you look at the left side, you can just about see me waving a torch about – this is a massive space…<\/p>\n

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