Felguera Factory

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Felguera Factory

Felguera Factory (in Spanish Fábrica de La Felguera) was the early manufacturing facility of what is now the company Duro Felguera, located in La Felguera, Langreo, Asturias, Spain. Although the facility is no longer operation, the Museum of the Siderurgy is located one of the structures.

La Factoría de Gíl y Compañía existed in the area, in the Vega barrio, since 1856. Pedro Duro founded the Sociedad Metalúrgica de Langreo ("Langreo Metallurgical Society") on 21 May 1857. He built his company with his partners Vicente Bayo and Francisco Antonio de Elorza y Aguirre, between 1857-59 on land known as El Pradón La Felguera. The furnace was lit in 1859, and iron was produced the following year. His intention was to introduce the modern steel industry into the town, taking advantage of existing area resources, such as coal, the rivers Nalón and Candín, the Carretera Carbonera, and Ferrocarril de Langreo, which joined the municipality of Langreo with Gijón.

Gallery

  • Museum of the Siderugy at the Felguera Factory

  • Pedro Duro

  • Felguera Factory

References

    Bibliography
    • Duro Felguera, una empresa de tres siglos Germán Ojeda. Nobel. La Felguera 2008
    • Duro Felguera, historia de una gran empresa industrial. Germán Ojeda. Grupo Duro Felguera. Oviedo 2000
    • La Fábrica de Duro Felguera. Imágenes 1984-1986. Antonio Ramón Felgueroso Durán. La Felguera 2005
    • Pedro Duro, un capitán de la industria española. Francisco Palacios. Grupo Duro Felguera. Langreo 2008


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