Built in 1935 as the Keelung works of the Taiwan Denka Company (臺灣電化株式會社), this electrochemical plant produced calcium cyanamide fertilizer and was heavily bombed during World War 2. Taken over after the war, it became the No. 1 Factory of the state-run Taiwan Fertilizer Company, supplying much of the island’s nitrogen fertilizer along with calcium carbide, oxygen, and lime; its factory shrine and a workers’ cinema once stood on the grounds. The plant ceased operations at the end of 2014, decades after its sister No. 2 Factory across the harbour.
Map
Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
- Liberty Times (自由時報)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Agricultural History in Taiwan (台灣農業史)
Connections
- Keelung Taifei No. 2 Factory (台肥基隆二廠)
- Taiwan Denka Factory Shrine (臺灣電化廠內神社)
- Luodong Fertilizer Factory (台灣肥料公司第一廠羅東分廠)
- Keelung Taifei No. 1 Theater (基隆台肥一廠戲院)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.